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Jakarta draw: Japan will start first; Chinese will perform last
08/04/2025Preliminary competition in Jakarta will consist of eight men’s and 10 women’s subdivisions, who will take to the apparatus in the Indonesia Arena during the first three days of the World Championships as they attempt to qualify for All-Around and apparatus finals.
Reigning Olympic team champion Japan will begin on Vault the first subdivision as the men’s competition gets underway 19 October, according to the official competition drawing of lots held 4 August at FIG Headquarters in Lausanne (SUI). Great Britain and Brazil will compete just after them in subdivision two, starting on Pommel Horse and Parallel Bars, respectively.
Paris 2024 team bronze medallists USA perform first on Horizontal Bar in subdivision 4, and the always powerful People’s Republic of China will not compete until the last subdivision on 20 October, where they will commence on Still Rings.
The Japanese women will begin on Balance Beam in subdivision 1 of the women’s competition the same day. Paris 2024 team gold medallists USA will be in subdivision 4 that starts the day on 21 October, where they will begin on Uneven Bars. Great Britain will be in the same subdivision, beginning on Floor Exercise.
Italy, which won its first Olympic team medal in 96 years in Paris, begins on Uneven Bars in subdivision five, next to France, which will start on Balance Beam. Olympic bronze medallists Brazil will begin on Uneven Bars in subdivision eight, while the Chinese women will go up first on Balance Beam in the tenth and last women’s subdivision.
Gymnasts representing the host country Indonesia, both men and women, are scheduled to compete in their respective subdivision 7.
Validated by FIG Technical Committee Presidents Donatella Sacchi (ITA) and Andrew Tombs (GBR), the draw determines the competition order for the 500 gymnasts expected in Indonesia 19-25 October.
See the full results of the draw on the FIG online calendar (under ‘event files’).
Only individual titles will be on the line at the Jakarta World Championships, where up to six men and four women per nation will vie for 12 sets of medals, with a maximum of three from each country allowed to compete on each apparatus during the qualification rounds. The draw also lays out the order gymnasts will compete in the apparatus finals.
Having so many countries set to compete as Indonesia hosts a World Gymnastics Championships for the first time is a point of pride for the organisers. The World Championships held the year after the Olympic Games often introduce the world to promising young talents who make a major impact on the sport in the years to come. Such was the case at the 2013 World Championships, when a 16-year-old Simone Biles (USA) established herself as a rising star by winning the World All-Around title for the first time.
Jakarta draw: Japan will start first; Chinese will perform last
Over 80 nations have registered for the 53rd FIG Artistic Gymnastics World Championships in Jakarta (INA) 19-25 October.
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