The 54th Artistic Gymnastics World Championships run at Rotterdam Ahoy from 17 to 25 October 2026. It is the third time the city has hosted the event, after 1987 and 2010, and the first world championships with team competition since Antwerp 2023. That last point is what makes this edition matter more than a normal pre-Olympic season: the team finals in Rotterdam hand out the first places at the Los Angeles 2028 Olympic Games.
This page is our hub for the week. It holds the full schedule in local time, the list of finals with links to full results as they are completed, and the context you need to read the scores. We add each results page after the final ends, using the official score sheets published by World Gymnastics, the body known until December 2025 as the FIG.
Why Rotterdam 2026 matters
Post-Olympic world championships, such as Jakarta 2025, have no team event. Rotterdam brings the team competition back, and with it the Olympic stakes. In each of the men's and women's team finals, the three highest-placed eligible nations earn a team place of five gymnasts for LA28. Everyone else has to wait for the 2027 World Championships in Chengdu, where nine more team places per gender are decided from the qualification round.
So a team final in Rotterdam is really two contests at once. One is for the medals. The other, often more tense, is for third place among the nations that can still qualify, because a podium spot now saves a federation a year of planning around a second chance. We explain the rules in full in our guide to how Rotterdam hands out the first LA28 team places.
Full schedule (local time)
Qualification takes three days and is split into subdivisions, each a mixed group of teams and individual gymnasts. Finals start on Tuesday 20 October.
| Day | Time | Phase | Session |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sat 17 October | 10:00 | Men's qualification | Subdivision 1 – Canada, Chinese Taipei, France, Brazil and individual all-around groups |
| Sat 17 October | 12:10 | Men's qualification | Subdivision 2 – Ukraine, South Korea, Cyprus, Russia and apparatus specialists |
| Sat 17 October | 16:00 | Men's qualification | Subdivision 3 – Hungary, Egypt, Netherlands, Colombia and individual all-around groups |
| Sat 17 October | 20:10 | Men's qualification | Subdivision 4 – Great Britain, Japan, United States, Australia and individual all-around groups |
| Sun 18 October | 10:00 | Men's qualification | Subdivision 5 – Belgium, Italy, China, Spain and individual all-around groups |
| Sun 18 October | 12:10 | Men's qualification | Subdivision 6 – Israel, Kazakhstan, Switzerland, Germany and individual all-around groups |
| Sun 18 October | 16:00 | Women's qualification | Subdivision 1 – Germany, Romania, United States |
| Sun 18 October | 17:50 | Women's qualification | Subdivision 2 – Japan, Australia, Belgium |
| Sun 18 October | 19:40 | Women's qualification | Subdivision 3 – Italy, Mexico |
| Mon 19 October | 09:30 | Women's qualification | Subdivision 4 – Sweden, Belarus |
| Mon 19 October | 11:05 | Women's qualification | Subdivision 5 – Ukraine, Algeria, Argentina |
| Mon 19 October | 12:40 | Women's qualification | Subdivision 6 – France, Malaysia |
| Mon 19 October | 16:00 | Women's qualification | Subdivision 7 – Netherlands, Great Britain and apparatus specialists |
| Mon 19 October | 17:35 | Women's qualification | Subdivision 8 – Canada, Spain, Russia |
| Mon 19 October | 19:35 | Women's qualification | Subdivision 9 – Switzerland, Brazil |
| Mon 19 October | 21:10 | Women's qualification | Subdivision 10 – China, South Korea |
| Tue 20 October | 19:00 | Final | Men's team final |
| Wed 21 October | 19:00 | Final | Women's team final |
| Thu 22 October | 19:30 | Final | Men's all-around final |
| Fri 23 October | 19:30 | Final | Women's all-around final |
| Sat 24 October | 14:00 | Apparatus finals | Men: floor, pommel horse, rings · Women: vault, uneven bars |
| Sun 25 October | 14:00 | Apparatus finals | Men: vault, parallel bars, horizontal bar · Women: balance beam, floor |
Local time in Rotterdam: CEST (UTC+2) until 24 October, CET (UTC+1) on 25 October.
Finals and results
Each final gets its own page with the complete scoresheet: apparatus scores for the team and all-around finals, and difficulty, execution and penalties for the apparatus finals. Every page opens with a short reading of what decided the medals, worked out from the numbers rather than from impressions.
| Day | Session | Results |
|---|---|---|
| 17–18 Oct | Men's qualification | Ranking and finalists after the last subdivision |
| 18–19 Oct | Women's qualification | Ranking and finalists after the last subdivision |
| Tue 20 October | Men's team final | Scores added after the final |
| Wed 21 October | Women's team final | Scores added after the final |
| Thu 22 October | Men's all-around final | Scores added after the final |
| Fri 23 October | Women's all-around final | Scores added after the final |
| Sat 24 October | Men's floor final | Scores added after the final |
| Sat 24 October | Men's pommel horse final | Scores added after the final |
| Sat 24 October | Men's rings final | Scores added after the final |
| Sat 24 October | Women's vault final | Scores added after the final |
| Sat 24 October | Women's uneven bars final | Scores added after the final |
| Sun 25 October | Men's vault final | Scores added after the final |
| Sun 25 October | Men's parallel bars final | Scores added after the final |
| Sun 25 October | Men's horizontal bar final | Scores added after the final |
| Sun 25 October | Women's balance beam final | Scores added after the final |
| Sun 25 October | Women's floor final | Scores added after the final |
How the competition works
Everything starts with qualification. Teams bring up to five gymnasts. On each apparatus up to four of them compete and the best three scores count towards the team total. The same routines also decide the individual finals, so a gymnast's qualification day serves three purposes at once.
- Team finals: the top eight teams. Three gymnasts compete on each apparatus and all three scores count, so there is no dropped score to absorb a fall.
- All-around finals: the top 24 gymnasts, with a maximum of two per nation.
- Apparatus finals: the top eight on each apparatus, again with a maximum of two per nation. Vault finalists perform two different vaults and the average is their score.
The two-per-country rule is why the qualification ranking and the final field rarely match. A strong nation can have its third-best all-arounder finish inside the top ten in qualification and still miss the final. If you are new to modern scoring, our guide to how gymnastics scoring works explains the difficulty (D) and execution (E) scores you will see on every results page.
Teams and gymnasts to watch
Nominated squads published before the event give a fair picture of the main contenders. Line-ups can still change through injury or late substitution, so treat these as squads, not confirmed finalists.
Men
Japan arrive with Daiki Hashimoto and Shinnosuke Oka, the Olympic all-around champions of Tokyo 2020 and Paris 2024. Japan also won the team title in Paris, so they are the reference point for everyone else. China's squad includes Zou Jingyuan, Olympic parallel bars champion at both Tokyo and Paris, alongside Yang Haonan. China's strength on pommel horse, rings and parallel bars usually keeps them close to Japan before the final rotations.
Great Britain bring Joe Fraser, the 2019 world pommel horse champion, together with Jake Jarman and Harry Hepworth. The United States are led by Fred Richard, all-around bronze medallist at the 2023 World Championships. Host nation the Netherlands field a squad including Casimir Schmidt and Jermain Grünberg, and Italy bring Yumin Abbadini and Mario Macchiati.
Women
The United States, Olympic team champions in Paris, lost Hezly Rivera to an ankle injury on the eve of the championships (full story). Dulcy Caylor replaces her, and Skye Blakely is now the only member of the team with world team final experience. China name Zhang Qingying, all-around bronze medallist in Jakarta last year. Brazil bring Rebeca Andrade, 2022 world all-around champion and Olympic floor champion in Paris, with Flávia Saraiva. Italy, team silver medallists in Paris, include Olympic beam bronze medallist Manila Esposito.
Great Britain's squad mixes experience and youth, with Becky Downie and Alice Kinsella alongside Ruby Evans and Abigail Martin. The Dutch home team includes Sanne Wevers, the 2016 Olympic beam champion, and Naomi Visser, and will have Rotterdam Ahoy behind them.
Team guides
Each of the main contenders has its own page with the squad, form, qualification slot and LA28 stakes.
Men's Artistic Gymnastics
Japan men's team at Rotterdam 2026
Olympic and world champions, and leaders after the first day of qualification.
China men's team at Rotterdam 2026
Asian Games champions, with Zou Jingyuan on parallel bars and rings.
Great Britain men's team at Rotterdam 2026
European champions in 2025, second after the first day of qualification.
United States men's team at Rotterdam 2026
Olympic bronze medallists in Paris, with a home Games to qualify for.
Netherlands men's team at Rotterdam 2026
The host nation, fifth after the first day of qualification.
Women's Artistic Gymnastics
United States women's team at Rotterdam 2026
Chasing an eighth straight world team title with a team that has no Olympians.
China women's team at Rotterdam 2026
Asian Games champions with the world beam champion and a former world bars champion.
Brazil women's team at Rotterdam 2026
Olympic team bronze medallists in Paris, with Rebeca Andrade back after a year away.
Italy women's team at Rotterdam 2026
Olympic team silver medallists in Paris and European champions in 2024 and 2025.
Great Britain women's team at Rotterdam 2026
Experience and youth, with Becky Downie still competing at world level.
Netherlands women's team at Rotterdam 2026
The home team, with an Olympic champion saying goodbye.
Algeria women's team at Rotterdam 2026
A first ever world championships team, led by the Olympic bars champion.
Gymnasts to know
Profiles of the stars to follow this week, with their full medal records.
Shinnosuke Oka
Japan's triple Olympic champion from Paris, two years after a torn ACL nearly derailed him.
Daiki Hashimoto
Tokyo 2020 all-around champion and the most decorated Japanese all-arounder of the cycle.
Zou Jingyuan
The best parallel bars worker of his era, with two Olympic titles and four world titles on the apparatus.
Jake Jarman
Britain's most explosive gymnast, with world titles on vault and floor and a skill in the Code of Points.
Frederick Richard
The US national all-around champion and the American men's best-known gymnast.
Illia Kovtun
Olympic silver medallist on parallel bars, now competing for Croatia after his nationality change.
Ángel Barajas
Colombia's first Olympic medallist in gymnastics, still only 20.
Rebeca Andrade
Brazil's most decorated Olympian, back at the World Championships after a year away.
Kaylia Nemour
Olympic and world champion on uneven bars, and the first African gymnast to win either title.
Sanne Wevers
The 2016 Olympic beam champion, ending her career at a home World Championships.
Zhang Qingying
China's world beam champion and the country's best all-arounder in Rotterdam.
Qiu Qiyuan
China's bars specialist and Kaylia Nemour's closest rival on the apparatus.
Manila Esposito
Two-time European all-around champion and the leader of Italy's women's team.
Skye Blakely
The only member of the US women's team who has competed in a world team final.
The Russian visa dispute
The defending women's all-around champion will not be in Rotterdam. According to the Russian gymnastics federation, Dutch authorities refused visas to Angelina Melnikova, who won the all-around title in Jakarta in 2025, Viktoria Listunova and Anna Kalmykova. The federation said 47 of the 61 members of its delegation received visas and that it would appeal to the IOC and to World Gymnastics. World Gymnastics said that visa decisions rest solely with the Dutch authorities. Dutch ministries do not comment on individual applications.
For the competition itself, the main effect is on the women's all-around and on the strength of the Russian women's team. The women's all-around title is open in a way it would not have been with the reigning champion present. The rest of the Russian delegation, like the Belarusian team, competes without national symbols, listed as WG2 and WG1 in the results. Why, and what changed in 2026.
Rotterdam's earlier world championships
Rotterdam Ahoy hosted the world championships in 1987 and again in 2010. In 2010 Kohei Uchimura won the second of his six consecutive world all-around titles there, and Aliya Mustafina won the women's all-around for Russia. China won the men's team title and Russia the women's. Our event archive covers European championships and other events from earlier seasons.
How we cover the week
We publish results only from official score sheets, and each results page links to its source. Where we explain why a medal was won or lost, the explanation comes from the published difficulty, execution and apparatus scores, not from guesswork. If we make a mistake, we correct it on the page and note the correction. See our editorial policy for how we work.
