# World Artistic Gymnastics Championships – Men's vault

The men's vault competition at the World Artistic Gymnastics Championships was first contested in 1934. It has been held in every year since its inception.
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 |
| 1934 | Budapest | Eugen Mack | Eduard Steinemann | Romeo Neri |
| 1938 | Prague | Eugen Mack | Walter Beck | Hans Nägelin |
| 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 | Ernst Gebendinger | Olavi Rove | Walter Lehmann |
| 1954 | Rome | Leo Sotorník | Helmut Bantz | Sergei Dzhayani |
| 1958 | Moscow | Yuri Titov | Masao Takemoto | Takashi Ono |
| 1962 | Prague | Přemysl Krbec | Haruhiro Yamashita | Yukio Endō Boris Shakhlin |
| 1966 | Dortmund | Haruhiro Yamashita | Takeshi Katō | Akinori Nakayama |
| 1970 | Ljubljana | Mitsuo Tsukahara | Viktor Klimenko | Takeshi Katō |
| 1974 | Varna | Shigeru Kasamatsu | Nikolai Andrianov | Hiroshi Kajiyama |
| 1978 | Strasbourg | Junichi Shimizu | Nikolai Andrianov | Ralph Bärthel |
| 1979 | Fort Worth | Alexander Dityatin | Nikolai Andrianov | Ralph Bärthel Bart Conner |
| 1981 | Moscow | Ralf-Peter Hemmann | Artur Akopyan | Bohdan Makuts |
| 1983 | Budapest | Artur Akopyan | Li Ning | Bernd Jensch |
| 1985 | Montreal | Yuri Korolyov | Laurent Barbiéri Lou Yun | — |
| 1987 | Rotterdam | Sylvio Kroll Lou Yun | — | Dian Kolev |
| 1989 | Stuttgart | Jörg Behrend | Sylvio Kroll | Vladimir Artemov |
| 1991 | Indianapolis | Yoo Ok-ryul | Vitaly Scherbo | Yutaka Aihara |
| 1992 | Paris | Yoo Ok-ryul | Ihor Korobchynskyi | Victor Colon Curtis Hibbert |
| 1993 | Birmingham | Vitaly Scherbo | Chang Feng-chih | Yoo Ok-ryul |
| 1994 | Brisbane | Vitaly Scherbo | Li Xiaoshuang | Yeo Hong-chul |
| 1995 | Sabae | Hrihoriy Misyutin Alexei Nemov | — | Vitaly Scherbo |
| 1996 | San Juan | Alexei Nemov | Andrea Massucchi Yeo Hong-chul | — |
| 1997 | Lausanne | Sergey Fedorchenko | Nikolai Kryukov | Adrian Ianculescu |
| 1999 | Tianjin | Li Xiaopeng | Jevgēņijs Saproņenko | Dieter Rehm |
| 2001 | Ghent | Marian Drăgulescu | Jevgēņijs Saproņenko | Charles León Tamayo |
| 2002 | Debrecen | Li Xiaopeng | Leszek Blanik | Yang Wei |
| 2003 | Anaheim | Li Xiaopeng | Marian Drăgulescu | Kyle Shewfelt |
| 2005 | Melbourne | Marian Drăgulescu | Leszek Blanik | Alin Jivan |
| 2006 | Aarhus | Marian Drăgulescu | Dmitry Kasperovich | Fabian Hambüchen |
| 2007 | Stuttgart | Leszek Blanik | Ilie Daniel Popescu | Ri Se-gwang |
| 2009 | London | Marian Drăgulescu (4) | Flavius Koczi | Anton Golotsutskov |
| 2010 | Rotterdam | Thomas Bouhail | Anton Golotsutskov | Dmitry Kasperovich |
| 2011 | Tokyo | Yang Hak-seon | Anton Golotsutskov | Makoto Okiguchi |
| 2013 | Antwerp | Yang Hak-seon | Steven Legendre | Kristian Thomas |
| 2014 | Nanning | Ri Se-gwang | Igor Radivilov | Jacob Dalton |
| 2015 | Glasgow | Ri Se-gwang | Marian Drăgulescu | Donnell Whittenburg |
| 2017 | Montreal | Kenzō Shirai | Igor Radivilov | Kim Han-sol |
| 2018 | Doha | Ri Se-gwang | Artur Dalaloyan | Kenzō Shirai |
| 2019 | Stuttgart | Nikita Nagornyy | Artur Dalaloyan | Igor Radivilov |
| 2021 | Kitakyushu | Carlos Yulo | Hidenobu Yonekura | Andrey Medvedev |
| 2022 | Liverpool | Artur Davtyan | Carlos Yulo | Igor Radivilov |
| 2023 | Antwerp | Jake Jarman | Khoi Young | Nazar Chepurnyi |

## All-time medal count

Last updated after the 2023 World Championships.
| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
| 1 | Japan | 5 | 4 | 8 | 17 |
| 2 | Soviet Union | 4 | 6 | 4 | 14 |
| 3 | Romania | 4 | 4 | 2 | 10 |
| 4 | China | 4 | 3 | 1 | 8 |
| 5 | South Korea | 4 | 1 | 3 | 8 |
| 6 | Russia | 3 | 5 | 1 | 9 |
| 7 | Switzerland | 3 | 2 | 3 | 8 |
| 8 | East Germany | 3 | 1 | 3 | 7 |
| 9 | North Korea | 3 | 0 | 1 | 4 |
| 10 | Belarus | 2 | 1 | 2 | 5 |
| 11 | Czechoslovakia | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 12 | Ukraine | 1 | 2 | 3 | 6 |
| 13 | Poland | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
| 14 | France | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 14 | Philippines | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 16 | Great Britain | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 17 | Armenia | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 17 | Kazakhstan | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 19 | United States | 0 | 2 | 3 | 5 |
| 20 | Latvia | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 21 | Italy | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 22 | CIS | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 22 | Chinese Taipei | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 22 | Finland | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 22 | West Germany | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 26 | Canada | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 27 | Bulgaria | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 27 | Cuba | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 27 | Germany | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 27 | Israel | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 27 | Puerto Rico | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Totals (31 entries) | Totals (31 entries) | 44 | 42 | 43 | 129 |

### Note

* ^[a] 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).

## Multiple medalists

| Rank | Gymnast | Nation | Years | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
| 1 | Marian Drăgulescu | Romania | 2001–2015 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 6 |
| 2 | Ri Se-gwang | North Korea | 2007–2018 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 4 |
| 3 | Li Xiaopeng | China | 1999–2003 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| 4 | Vitaly Scherbo | Soviet Union Belarus | 1991–1995 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 |
| 5 | Yoo Ok-ryul | South Korea | 1991–1993 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| 6 | Eugen Mack | Switzerland | 1934–1938 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 6 | Alexei Nemov | Russia | 1995–1996 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 6 | Yang Hak-seon | South Korea | 2011–2013 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 9 | Leszek Blanik | Poland | 2002–2007 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
| 10 | Artur Akopyan | Soviet Union | 1981–1983 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 10 | Sylvio Kroll | East Germany | 1987–1989 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 10 | Lou Yun | China | 1985–1987 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 10 | Haruhiro Yamashita | Japan | 1962–1966 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 10 | Carlos Yulo | Philippines | 2021–2022 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 15 | Kenzō Shirai | Japan | 2017–2018 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 16 | Nikolai Andrianov | Soviet Union | 1974–1979 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| 17 | Igor Radivilov | Ukraine | 2014–2022 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 4 |
| 18 | Anton Golotsutskov | Russia | 2009–2011 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| 19 | Artur Dalaloyan | Russia | 2018–2019 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 19 | Jevgēņijs Saproņenko | Latvia | 1999–2001 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 21 | Dmitry Kasperovich | Belarus | 2006–2010 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 21 | Takeshi Katō | Japan | 1966–1970 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 21 | Yeo Hong-chul | South Korea | 1994–1996 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 24 | Ralph Bärthel | East Germany | 1978–1979 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |