The 1998 Artistic Gymnastics World Cup Final was held in Sabae, Japan in 1998. This edition marked the first time the World Cup Final was held. In 1997, the World Cup was revived, after a 7-year hiatus, as a series of qualifying events for a period of two years, culminating in a final event, the World Cup Final. The different stages, sometimes referred to as World Cup Qualifiers, mostly served the purpose of awarding points to individual gymnasts and groups according to their placements. These points would be added up over the two-year period to qualify a limited number of athletes to the biennial World Cup Final event.
Medal winners Event Gold Silver Bronze Ref. Men's floor exercise Li Xiaopeng Aleksei Nemov Isao Yoneda Men's pommel horse Eric Poujade Marius Urzică Zhang Jingjin None awarded None awarded Men's still rings Szilveszter Csollány Ivan Ivankov Shigeru Kurihara Men's vault Aleksei Nemov Aleksei Bondarenko Sergei Fedorchenko Men's parallel bars Aleksey Dmitrienko Li Xiaopeng Zhang Jingjin None awarded None awarded Men's horizontal bar Ivan Ivankov Sergei Fedorchenko Zoltán Supola Women's vault Simona Amânar Gina Gogean Kui Yuanyuan Women's uneven bars Bi Wenjing Svetlana Khorkina Liu Xuan Women's balance beam Liu Xuan Kui Yuanyuan Gina Gogean Women's floor exercise Simona Amânar Gina Gogean Alena Polozkova1975–2008 Artistic WC
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