# 1981 World Rhythmic Gymnastics Championships

1981 World Rhythmic Gymnastics Championships were held in Munich, West Germany on October 17 to 20, 1981.

## Participants

The following countries sent competitor(s) Australia, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, China, Cuba, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, East Germany, France, Great Britain, Hungary, Israel, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, USA, USSR, West Germany & Yugoslavia

### Individual

| Name | Name | Name | Name |
| Robyne Levit | Daniela Bošanská | Hiroko Yamasaki | Susana Guillen |
| Fiona Wallace | Iveta Havlíčková | Martha Gonzales | Eva Bergstroem |
| Gertrude Ramsauer | Liselotte Korsgaard | Angelique de Bruijn | Gunloeg Bergvall |
| Ulrike Weiss | Mette Lyngholm | Sonja Grünewald | Anna Janson |
| Ursula Wicklicki | Bianca Dittrich | Susanne Knip | Suzanne Müller |
| Sarina Roberti | Katrin Huschke | Kerry Dougherty | Somea Paolucci |
| Laura Monteiro | Petra Loucky | Suzanne Ludlow | Grazia Verzasconi |
| Maria Campos dos Santos | Christel Roger | Tania Moss | Lydia Bree Crabtree |
| Laura Seixas | Martine Vital | Marianne Reme | Sue Soffe |
| Lilia Ignatova | Lynette Gordon | Hilde Soerhaug | Valerie Zimring |
| Iliana Raeva | Jacqueline Leavy | Shirin Zorriassateiny | Irina Derjugina |
| Anelia Ralenkova | Timea Englender | Teresa Folga | Irina Devina |
| Debbie Bryant | Gyorgyi Kovacs | Ewa Figeland-Kowalak | Dalia Kutkaitė |
| Lori Fung | Brigitta Sziraczky | Anna Klos-Sulima | Anke Abraham |
| Jane Lazor | Iris Barak | Maria Joao Falcao | Carmen Rischer |
| Jia Shao | Dafna Gerson | Christina Lebre | Regina Weber |
| Xin Li | Liath Haninovlitz | Elsa Lebre | Milena Reljin |
| Xiurong Wang | Manuela Agnolucci | Dorina Cordos | Silvana Sokolov |
| Aida Hernandez-Barrientos | Claudia Peccianti | Rozica Popescu | Ljiljana Vugic |
| Roxana Merino-Martinez | Giulia Staccioli | Mihaela Tenasa |
| Cecilia Juara-Rosell | Kimie Kimura | Eva Alcaraz |
| Šárka Baťková | Michiyo Ota | Marta Bobo |

### Groups

Countries who participated in the group competition are as follows.
| Nation | Nation | Nation | Nation |
| Austria | Czechoslovakia | New Zealand | United States |
| Australia | Great Britain | Norway | USSR |
| Brazil | Hungary | Poland | West Germany |
| Bulgaria | Italy | Spain |
| Canada | Japan | Sweden |
| China | The Netherlands | Switzerland |

## Medal table

| Place | Country | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
| 1 | Bulgaria | 5 | 7 | 2 | 14 |
| 2 | USSR | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| 3 | Czechoslovakia | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |

## Individual Final
### Individual All-Around

| Place | Name | Rope | Hoop | Clubs | Ribbon | Total |
| 1 | Anelia Ralenkova | 9.850 | 9.750 | 9.800 | 9.750 | 39.150 |
| 2 | Lilia Ignatova | 9.850 | 9.750 | 9.750 | 9.700 | 39.050 |
| 2 | Iliana Raeva | 9.800 | 9.750 | 9.700 | 9.800 | 39.050 |
| 4 | Irina Devina | 9.650 | 9.550 | 9.750 | 9.800 | 38.750 |
| 5 | Dalia Kutkaitė | 9.600 | 9.700 | 9.600 | 9.500 | 38.400 |
| 6 | Carmen Rischer | 9.500 | 9.600 | 9.500 | 9.600 | 38.200 |
| 7 | Daniela Bošanská | 9.600 | 9.650 | 9.600 | 9.250 | 38.100 |
| 8 | Iveta Havlíčková | 9.450 | 9.400 | 9.500 | 9.500 | 37.850 |
| 9 | Irina Derjugina | 9.550 | 9.750 | 9.250 | 9.250 | 37.800 |
| 10 | Regina Weber | 9.500 | 9.450 | 9.350 | 9.400 | 37.700 |
| 11 | Kimie Kimura | 9.450 | 9.500 | 9.350 | 9.250 | 37.550 |
| 12 | Marta Bobo | 9.250 | 9.400 | 9.600 | 9.200 | 37.450 |
| 12 | Hiroko Yamasaki | 9.400 | 9.400 | 9.250 | 9.400 | 37.450 |
| 14 | Anna Klos-Sulima | 9.300 | 9.550 | 9.500 | 9.050 | 37.400 |
| 15 | Gyorgyi Kovacs | 9.400 | 9.200 | 9.300 | 9.350 | 37.250 |
| 16 | Šárka Baťková | 9.350 | 9.450 | 9.400 | 9.000 | 37.200 |
| 17 | Ewa Figeland-Kowalak | 9.300 | 9.400 | 9.300 | 9.150 | 37.150 |
| 17 | Milena Reljin | 9.400 | 9.300 | 9.300 | 9.150 | 37.150 |
| 19 | Bianca Dittrich | 9.200 | 9.250 | 9.400 | 9.050 | 36.900 |
| 20 | Susana Guillen | 9.150 | 9.300 | 9.250 | 8.950 | 36.650 |
| 21 | Eva Alcaraz | 9.250 | 9.200 | 9.250 | 8.900 | 36.600 |
| 22 | Michiyo Ota | 9.200 | 9.050 | 9.300 | 8.950 | 36.500 |
| 23 | Teresa Folga | 9.350 | 9.200 | 8.900 | 8.900 | 36.350 |
| 24 | Timea Englender | 9.250 | 9.250 | 8.950 | 8.850 | 36.300 |
| 24 | Anna Janson | 9.200 | 8.950 | 9.250 | 8.900 | 36.300 |
| 24 | Jia Shao | 9.100 | 9.150 | 8.950 | 9.100 | 36.300 |
| 27 | Anke Abraham | 9.150 | 9.500 | 8.450 | 9.100 | 36.200 |
| 27 | Claudia Peccianti | 9.000 | 9.200 | 9.150 | 8.850 | 36.200 |
| 29 | Petra Loucky | 9.500 | 9.200 | 9.150 | 8.300 | 36.150 |
| 30 | Lori Fung | 9.350 | 9.200 | 9.250 | 8.300 | 36.100 |
| 31 | Xiurong Wang | 9.150 | 9.000 | 9.000 | 8.900 | 36.050 |
| 32 | Katrin Huschke | 9.350 | 9.100 | 8.300 | 9.150 | 35.900 |
| 32 | Rozica Popescu | 9.250 | 9.250 | 8.450 | 8.950 | 35.900 |
| 34 | Lydia Bree Crabtree | 8.900 | 9.150 | 8.900 | 8.900 | 35.850 |
| 35 | Gunloeg Bergvall | 9.150 | 9.000 | 8.850 | 8.800 | 35.800 |
| 35 | Giulia Staccioli | 9.100 | 9.300 | 8.850 | 8.550 | 35.800 |
| 37 | Debbie Bryant | 9.300 | 9.050 | 8.850 | 8.550 | 35.750 |
| 37 | Jane Lazor | 9.100 | 9.150 | 8.850 | 8.650 | 35.750 |
| 37 | Grazia Verzasconi | 8.850 | 9.050 | 9.250 | 8.600 | 35.750 |
| 40 | Dorina Cordos | 9.350 | 8.600 | 8.800 | 8.950 | 35.700 |
| 40 | Angelique de Bruijn | 9.050 | 9.200 | 8.600 | 8.850 | 35.700 |
| 42 | Sue Soffe | 9.150 | 8.700 | 8.750 | 9.050 | 35.650 |
| 42 | Mihaela Tenasa | 9.300 | 8.250 | 8.950 | 9.150 | 35.650 |
| 44 | Aida Hernandez-Barrientos | 9.000 | 8.850 | 9.000 | 8.750 | 35.600 |
| 44 | Susanne Knip | 8.900 | 9.000 | 8.950 | 8.750 | 35.600 |
| 44 | Valerie Zimring | 9.000 | 9.300 | 8.700 | 8.600 | 35.600 |
| 47 | Xin Li | 8.800 | 8.800 | 8.850 | 8.950 | 35.400 |
| 48 | Roxana Merino-Martinez | 8.950 | 8.900 | 8.850 | 8.650 | 35.350 |
| 49 | Dafna Gerson | 8.750 | 9.000 | 8.650 | 8.900 | 35.300 |
| 49 | Jacqueline Leavy | 8.900 | 8.900 | 8.650 | 8.850 | 35.300 |
| 49 | Marianne Reme | 8.800 | 9.000 | 9.000 | 8.500 | 35.300 |
| 52 | Lynette Gordon | 8.700 | 8.800 | 8.950 | 8.750 | 35.200 |
| 52 | Sonja Grünewald | 8.800 | 8.800 | 9.050 | 8.550 | 35.200 |
| 52 | Silvana Sokolov | 9.150 | 8.600 | 8.700 | 8.750 | 35.200 |
| 52 | Ljiljana Vugic | 8.850 | 9.100 | 8.550 | 8.700 | 35.200 |
| 56 | Mette Lyngholm | 8.750 | 8.900 | 8.900 | 8.600 | 35.150 |
| 56 | Suzanne Müller | 8.850 | 8.900 | 8.850 | 8.550 | 35.150 |
| 58 | Shirin Zorriassareiny | 9.050 | 8.600 | 8.850 | 8.550 | 35.050 |
| 59 | Martina Vital | 8.850 | 9.100 | 8.500 | 8.500 | 34.950 |
| 60 | Liath Haninovlitz | 9.000 | 8.900 | 8.600 | 8.400 | 34.900 |
| 60 | Liselotte Korsgaard | 8.850 | 8.750 | 8.850 | 8.450 | 34.900 |
| 60 | Tania Moss | 8.900 | 8.850 | 8.550 | 8.600 | 34.900 |
| 60 | Christel Roger | 8.850 | 8.900 | 8.750 | 8.400 | 34.900 |
| 64 | Gertrude Ramsauer | 8.850 | 8.950 | 8.650 | 8.500 | 34.750 |
| 65 | Kerry Dougherty | 8.850 | 8.600 | 8.950 | 8.300 | 34.700 |
| 66 | Ulrike Weiss | 9.000 | 89.050 | 8.300 | 8.250 | 34.600 |
| 67 | Eva Bergstroem | 9.000 | 8.200 | 8.650 | 8.650 | 34.500 |
| 68 | Hilde Soerhaug | 8.800 | 8.850 | 8.500 | 8.200 | 34.350 |
| 69 | Iris Barak | 8.650 | 8.550 | 8.550 | 8.500 | 34.250 |
| 69 | Ursula Wicklicki | 8.850 | 8.850 | 8.400 | 8.150 | 34.250 |
| 71 | Robyne Levit | 8.750 | 8.750 | 8.300 | 8.400 | 34.200 |
| 71 | Laura Monteiro | 8.600 | 8.650 | 8.550 | 8.400 | 34.200 |
| 73 | Laura Seixas | 8.750 | 8.650 | 8.850 | 7.900 | 34.150 |
| 74 | Cecilia Juara-Rosell | 8.900 | 8.950 | 8.500 | 7.700 | 34.050 |
| 75 | Elsa Lebre | 8.600 | 8.750 | 8.450 | 8.150 | 33.950 |
| 76 | Manuela Agnolucci | 9.050 | 7.700 | 8.500 | 8.650 | 33.900 |
| 77 | Christina Lebre | 8.550 | 8.700 | 8.500 | 8.100 | 33.850 |
| 78 | Maria Joao Falcao | 8.600 | 8.350 | 8.450 | 8.350 | 33.750 |
| 79 | Sarina Roberti | 8.550 | 8.500 | 8.500 | 8.100 | 33.650 |
| 80 | Fiona Wallace | 8.550 | 8.450 | 8.200 | 8.200 | 33.400 |
| 81 | Somea Paolucci | 8.800 | 7.900 | 8.500 | 8.000 | 33.200 |
| 82 | Suzanne Ludlow | 8.750 | 8.250 | 8.450 | 7.650 | 33.100 |
| 83 | Martha Gonzales | 8.400 | 8.300 | 7.950 | 7.550 | 32.200 |
| 84 | Maria Campos dos Santos | 8.700 | 8.750 | 8.650 | 2.500 | 28.600 |
| 85 | Brigitta Sziraczky | - | 8.650 | 9.050 | 7.900 | 25.600 |

### Individual Rope

| Place | Name | All Around | Rope | Total |
| 1 | Lilia Ignatova | 9.850 | 9.850 | 19.700 |
| 2 | Anelia Ralenkova | 9.850 | 9.750 | 19.600 |
| 3 | Iliana Raeva | 9.800 | 9.750 | 19.550 |
| 4 | Irina Devina | 9.650 | 9.800 | 19.450 |
| 5 | Dalia Kutkaitė | 9.600 | 9.750 | 19.350 |
| 6 | Irina Derjugina | 9.5550 | 9.700 | 19.250 |
| 7 | Daniela Bošanská | 9.600 | 9.750 | 19.350 |
| 8 | Carmen Rischer | 9.500 | 9.600 | 19.100 |

### Individual Hoop

| Place | Name | All Around | Hoop | Total |
| 1 | Lilia Ignatova | 9.750 | 9.850 | 19.600 |
| 2 | Iliana Raeva | 9.750 | 9.800 | 19.550 |
| 2 | Anelia Ralenkova | 9.750 | 9.800 | 19.550 |
| 4 | Irina Derjugina | 9.750 | 9.750 | 19.500 |
| 5 | Dalia Kutkaitė | 9.700 | 9.650 | 19.350 |
| 6 | Irina Devina | 9.550 | 9.700 | 19.250 |
| 7 | Daniela Bošanská | 9.650 | 9.500 | 19.150 |
| 8 | Carmen Rischer | 9.600 | 8.750 | 18.350 |

### Individual Clubs

| Place | Name | All Around | Clubs | Total |
| 1 | Anelia Ralenkova | 9.800 | 9.900 | 19.700 |
| 2 | Lilia Ignatova | 9.750 | 9.900 | 19.650 |
| 3 | Irina Devina | 9.750 | 9.800 | 19.550 |
| 4 | Iliana Raeva | 9.700 | 9.800 | 19.500 |
| 5 | Daniela Bošanská | 9.600 | 9.750 | 19.350 |
| 6 | Dalia Kutkaitė | 9.600 | 9.650 | 19.250 |
| 7 | Marta Bobo | 9.600 | 9.500 | 19.100 |
| 7 | Carmen Rischer | 9.500 | 9.600 | 19.100 |

### Individual Ribbon

| Place | Name | All Around | Ribbon | Total |
| 1 | Irina Devina | 9.800 | 9.900 | 19.700 |
| 2 | Iliana Raeva | 9.800 | 9.800 | 19.600 |
| 3 | Anelia Ralenkova | 9.750 | 9.800 | 19.550 |
| 4 | Lilia Ignatova | 9.700 | 9.800 | 19.500 |
| 5 | Carmen Rischer | 9.600 | 9.700 | 19.300 |
| 6 | Dalia Kutkaitė | 9.500 | 9.700 | 19.200 |
| 7 | Iveta Havlíčková | 9.500 | 9.550 | 19.050 |
| 8 | Regina Weber | 9.400 | 9.600 | 19.000 |

## Group
### Preliminaries

| Place | Nation | First Exercise | Second Exercise | Total |
| 1 | Bulgaria | 19.400 | 19.550 | 38.950 |
| 2 | USSR | 19.200 | 19.300 | 38.500 |
| 3 | Czechoslovakia | 18.850 | 18.950 | 37.800 |
| 4 | Japan | 18.700 | 18.750 | 37.450 |
| 5 | Spain | 18.150 | 18.550 | 36.700 |
| 6 | West Germany | 18.150 | 18.500 | 36.650 |
| 7 | Poland | 18.200 | 18.400 | 36.600 |
| 8 | Italy | 18.200 | 18.200 | 36.400 |
| 9 | Canada | 17.850 | 18.100 | 35.950 |
| 10 | Norway | 17.650 | 18.250 | 35.900 |
| 11 | United States | 17.600 | 18.150 | 35.750 |
| 12 | Hungary | 17.250 | 18.350 | 35.600 |
| 12 | Netherlands | 17.500 | 18.100 | 35.600 |
| 14 | Austria | 17.550 | 17.700 | 35.250 |
| 15 | Switzerland | 17.500 | 17.600 | 35.100 |
| 16 | China | 17.450 | 17.500 | 34.950 |
| 17 | Sweden | 17.350 | 17.500 | 34.850 |
| 18 | New Zealand | 16.900 | 17.450 | 34.350 |
| 19 | Great Britain | 17.100 | 17.150 | 34.250 |
| 20 | Brazil | 16.600 | 17.100 | 34.000 |
| 21 | Australia | 16.750 | 16.350 | 33.100 |

### Finals

| Place | Nation | Average | Final | Total |
| 1 | Bulgaria | 19.475 | 19.100 | 38.575 |
| 2 | USSR | 19.250 | 19.100 | 38.350 |
| 3 | Czechoslovakia | 18.900 | 19.250 | 38.150 |
| 4 | Japan | 18.725 | 19.200 | 37.925 |
| 5 | West Germany | 18.325 | 18.750 | 37.075 |
| 6 | Poland | 18.300 | 18.650 | 36.950 |
| 7 | Spain | 18.350 | 18.550 | 36.900 |
| 8 | Italy | 18.200 | 18.250 | 36.450 |