# World Artistic Gymnastics Championships – Men's rings

The men's still rings competition was an inaugural event at the World Artistic Gymnastics Championships. It was not held in 1905 and 1907.
Three medals are awarded: gold for first place, silver for second place, and bronze for third place. Tie breakers have not been used in every year. In the event of a tie between two gymnasts, both names are listed, and the following position (second for a tie for first, third for a tie for second) is left empty because a medal was not awarded for that position. If three gymnastics tied for a position, the following two positions are left empty.

## Medalists

Bold number in brackets denotes record number of victories.
| Year | Location | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| 1903 | Antwerp | Joseph Martinez | Joseph Lux François Walravens | — |
| 1905 | Bordeaux | No rings event held | No rings event held | No rings event held |
| 1907 | Prague | No rings event held | No rings event held | No rings event held |
| 1909 | Luxembourg | Guido Romano Marco Torrès | — | František Erben Angelo Mozzoncini Giorgio Zampori |
| 1911 | Turin | Ferdinand Steiner | Pietro Bianchi Antoine Costa Dominique Follacci | — |
| 1913 | Paris | Guido Boni Laurent Grech Marco Torrès Giorgio Zampori | — | — |
| 1915–1917 | Not held due to World War I | Not held due to World War I | Not held due to World War I | Not held due to World War I |
| 1922 | Ljubljana | Miroslav Karásek Josef Malý Leon Štukelj Peter Šumi | — | — |
| 1926 | Lyon | Leon Štukelj | Ladislav Vácha | Bedřich Šupčík |
| 1930 | Luxembourg | Emanuel Löffler | Bedřich Šupčík | Jan Gajdoš |
| 1934 | Budapest | Alois Hudec | Eugen Mack | Jaroslav Kollinger Mathias Logelin |
| 1938 | Prague | Alois Hudec | Michael Reusch | Vratislav Petráček |
| 1942 | Not held due to World War II | Not held due to World War II | Not held due to World War II | Not held due to World War II |
| 1950 | Basel | Walter Lehmann | Olavi Rove | Hans Eugster |
| 1954 | Rome | Albert Azaryan | Yevgeny Korolkov | Valentin Muratov |
| 1958 | Moscow | Albert Azaryan | Nobuyuki Aihara | Yuri Titov |
| 1962 | Prague | Yuri Titov | Yukio Endō Boris Shakhlin | — |
| 1966 | Dortmund | Mikhail Voronin | Akinori Nakayama | Franco Menichelli |
| 1970 | Ljubljana | Akinori Nakayama | Mitsuo Tsukahara | Mikhail Voronin |
| 1974 | Varna | Nikolai Andrianov Dan Grecu | — | Andrzej Szajna |
| 1978 | Strasbourg | Nikolai Andrianov | Alexander Dityatin | Dan Grecu |
| 1979 | Fort Worth | Alexander Dityatin | Dan Grecu | Aleksandr Tkachyov |
| 1981 | Moscow | Alexander Dityatin | Huang Yubin | Bohdan Makuts |
| 1983 | Budapest | Dmitry Bilozerchev Kōji Gushiken | — | Li Ning |
| 1985 | Montreal | Yuri Korolyov Li Ning | — | Yuri Balobanov Kyoji Yamawaki |
| 1987 | Rotterdam | Yuri Korolyov | Dmitry Bilozerchev Li Ning | — |
| 1989 | Stuttgart | Andreas Aguilar | Andreas Wecker | Jury Chechi Vitaly Marinich |
| 1991 | Indianapolis | Hrihoriy Misyutin | Andreas Wecker | Jury Chechi |
| 1992 | Paris | Vitaly Scherbo | Szilveszter Csollány | Hrihoriy Misyutin |
| 1993 | Birmingham | Jury Chechi | Andreas Wecker | Ivan Ivankov |
| 1994 | Brisbane | Jury Chechi | Paul O'Neill | Valery Belenky Dan Burincă |
| 1995 | Sabae | Jury Chechi | Dan Burincă | Yordan Yovchev |
| 1996 | San Juan | Jury Chechi | Szilveszter Csollány Yordan Yovchev | — |
| 1997 | Lausanne | Jury Chechi (5) | Szilveszter Csollány | Ivan Ivankov |
| 1999 | Tianjin | Dong Zhen | Szilveszter Csollány | Dimosthenis Tampakos |
| 2001 | Ghent | Yordan Yovchev | Szilveszter Csollány | Andrea Coppolino |
| 2002 | Debrecen | Szilveszter Csollány | Yordan Yovchev | Matteo Morandi |
| 2003 | Anaheim | Dimosthenis Tampakos Yordan Yovchev | — | Andrea Coppolino Matteo Morandi |
| 2005 | Melbourne | Yuri van Gelder | Aleksandr Safoshkin | Matteo Morandi |
| 2006 | Aarhus | Chen Yibing | Yordan Yovchev | Yuri van Gelder |
| 2007 | Stuttgart | Chen Yibing | Yuri van Gelder | Yordan Yovchev |
| 2009 | London | Yan Mingyong | Yordan Yovchev | Oleksandr Vorobiov |
| 2010 | Rotterdam | Chen Yibing | Yan Mingyong | Matteo Morandi |
| 2011 | Tokyo | Chen Yibing | Arthur Zanetti | Koji Yamamuro |
| 2013 | Antwerp | Arthur Zanetti | Aleksandr Balandin | Brandon Wynn |
| 2014 | Nanning | Liu Yang | Arthur Zanetti | Denis Ablyazin You Hao |
| 2015 | Glasgow | Eleftherios Petrounias | You Hao | Liu Yang |
| 2017 | Montreal | Eleftherios Petrounias | Denis Ablyazin | Liu Yang |
| 2018 | Doha | Eleftherios Petrounias | Arthur Zanetti | Marco Lodadio |
| 2019 | Stuttgart | İbrahim Çolak | Marco Lodadio | Samir Aït Saïd |
| 2021 | Kitakyushu | Lan Xingyu | Marco Lodadio | Grigorii Klimentev Salvatore Maresca |
| 2022 | Liverpool | Adem Asil | Zou Jingyuan | Courtney Tulloch |
| 2023 | Antwerp | Liu Yang | Eleftherios Petrounias | You Hao |

## All-time medal count

Last updated after the 2023 World Championships.
| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
| 1 | Soviet Union | 12 | 4 | 7 | 23 |
| 2 | China | 10 | 5 | 5 | 20 |
| 3 | Italy | 8 | 3 | 13 | 24 |
| 4 | Czechoslovakia | 5 | 2 | 4 | 11 |
| 5 | France | 4 | 3 | 1 | 8 |
| 6 | Greece | 4 | 1 | 1 | 6 |
| 7 | Yugoslavia | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| 8 | Bulgaria | 2 | 4 | 2 | 8 |
| 8 | Japan | 2 | 4 | 2 | 8 |
| 10 | Turkey | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 11 | Hungary | 1 | 5 | 0 | 6 |
| 12 | Brazil | 1 | 3 | 0 | 4 |
| 13 | Romania | 1 | 2 | 2 | 5 |
| 14 | Switzerland | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 |
| 15 | Netherlands | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| 16 | Bohemia | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 16 | CIS | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 18 | West Germany | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 19 | Russia | 0 | 3 | 1 | 4 |
| 20 | Germany | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| 21 | United States | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 22 | Belgium | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 22 | East Germany | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 22 | Finland | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 25 | Belarus | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 26 | Great Britain | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 26 | Luxembourg | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 26 | Poland | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 26 | Russian Gymnastics Federation | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 26 | Ukraine | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Totals (30 entries) | Totals (30 entries) | 60 | 48 | 51 | 159 |

### Notes

* ^[a] Official FIG documents credit medals earned by athletes from Bohemia as medals for Czechoslovakia.
* ^[b] Official FIG documents credit medals earned by athletes from former Soviet Union at the 1992 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships in Paris, France, as medals for CIS (Commonwealth of Independent States).
* ^[c] At the 2021 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships in Kitakyushu, Japan, in accordance with a ban by the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) and a decision by the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS), athletes from Russia were not permitted to use the Russian name, flag, or anthem. They instead participated under name and flag of the RGF (Russian Gymnastics Federation).

## Multiple medalists

| Rank | Gymnast | Nation | Years | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
| 1 | Jury Chechi | Italy | 1989–1997 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 7 |
| 2 | Chen Yibing | China | 2006–2011 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| 3 | Eleftherios Petrounias | Greece | 2015–2023 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
| 4 | Yordan Yovchev | Bulgaria | 1995–2009 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 8 |
| 5 | Alexander Dityatin | Soviet Union | 1978–1981 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| 6 | Liu Yang | China | 2014–2023 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 4 |
| 7 | Nikolai Andrianov | Soviet Union | 1974–1978 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 7 | Albert Azaryan | Soviet Union | 1954–1958 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 7 | Alois Hudec | Czechoslovakia | 1934–1938 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 7 | Yuri Korolyov | Soviet Union | 1985–1987 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 7 | Leon Štukelj | Yugoslavia | 1922–1926 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 7 | Marco Torrès | France | 1909–1913 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 13 | Szilveszter Csollány | Hungary | 1992–2002 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 6 |
| 14 | Arthur Zanetti | Brazil | 2011–2018 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 4 |
| 15 | Dan Grecu | Romania | 1974–1979 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| 15 | Li Ning | China | 1983–1987 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| 15 | Yuri van Gelder | Netherlands | 2005–2007 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| 18 | Dmitry Bilozerchev | Soviet Union | 1983–1987 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 18 | Akinori Nakayama | Japan | 1966–1970 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 18 | Yan Mingyong | China | 2009–2010 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 21 | Hrihoriy Misyutin | Soviet Union CIS | 1991–1992 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 21 | Dimosthenis Tampakos | Greece | 1999–2003 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 21 | Yuri Titov | Soviet Union | 1958–1962 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 21 | Mikhail Voronin | Soviet Union | 1966–1970 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 21 | Giorgio Zampori | Italy | 1909–1913 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 26 | Andreas Wecker | East Germany Germany | 1989–1993 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| 27 | Marco Lodadio | Italy | 2018–2021 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| 28 | You Hao | China | 2014–2023 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 29 | Denis Ablyazin | Russia | 2014–2017 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 29 | Dan Burincă | Romania | 1994–1995 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 29 | Bedřich Šupčík | Czechoslovakia | 1926–1930 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 32 | Matteo Morandi | Italy | 2002–2010 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 4 |
| 33 | Andrea Coppolino | Italy | 2001–2003 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 33 | Ivan Ivankov | Belarus | 1993–1997 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |