The 2022 Rhythmic Gymnastics World Championships were held from 14 to 18 September 2022 in Sofia, Bulgaria.
The competition was used to determine the first quotas given for the 2024 Summer Olympics. The three medalists in the individual and group all-around won quotas for their countries.
Notable absences included all Russian and Belarusian gymnasts, who were not allowed to compete after the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine. Both countries were traditionally dominant in rhythmic gymnastics; a Russian gymnast had won every World all-around title since 2007, when Ukrainian Anna Bessonova won. In addition, two favorites for the individual event, the European champion, Daria Atamanov, and the European silver medalist, Boryana Kaleyn, both withdrew shortly before the event for health reasons. Atamanov broke her leg performing a jump during her warm-up a few minutes before she was to compete, while Kaleyn was hospitalized with a high fever.
In part due to the absence of Russian and Belarusian gymnasts, several gymnasts won the first World medals for their countries at the competition. In the individual event, victor Sofia Raffaeli from Italy became the first Italian individual gymnast to win an all-around medal at the World Championships as well as the first Italian all-around champion. Darja Varfolomeev, the silver medalist, was the first German gymnast to win an all-around medal since the reunification of Germany; in the event finals, she won the first gold medal by a German gymnast. Bronze medalist Stiliana Nikolova was the first Bulgarian individual to win an all-around medal in over twenty years.
Ekaterina Vedeneeva won Slovenia's first World medal, a bronze in the ribbon final. Marina Malpica was the first Mexican gymnast to compete in the all-around final. In the group event, the Israeli group won their country's first group medal with silver in the all-around, and the Azerbaijani group also won their country's first World group medal, a bronze in the mixed apparatus event.
Neviana Vladinova was the ambassador for the event.
Participating countries Based on the results at the previous continental championships, each International Gymnastics Federation member could submit either one individual, or two or three individuals, with all quotas being non-nominative. The quotas allocated differed per continent, with Europe having the most allocated quotas and Oceania the least. The maximum number of entries was 105 gymnasts. Every member nation could enter one group. Participants Nations Group + 3 individuals Group + 2 individuals Group + 1 individual Group 3 individuals 2 individuals 1 individual
Schedule Wednesday, September 14 09:30 - 19:10 Individual Qualification - Hoop and Ball 20:20 - 21:00 Opening Ceremony 21:00 - 21:35 Individual Hoop Final 21:42 - 22:17 Individual Ball Final Thursday, September 15 09:30 - 19:16 Individual Qualification - Clubs and Ribbon 21:00 - 21:35 Individual Clubs Final 21:42 - 22:17 Individual Ribbon Final Friday, September 16 14:30 - 18:55 Group All Around Saturday, September 17 14:45 - 19:31 Individual All Around Final Sunday, September 18 15:00 - 15:43 Group 5 Hoops Final 15:48 - 16:31 Group 3 Ribbons + 2 Balls Final 17:15 - 18:00 Closing Ceremony
Medal summary Team Competition IndividualsMilena BaldassarriSofia RaffaeliGroupMartina CentofantiAgnese DurantiAlessia MaurelliDaniela MogureanLaura ParisMartina Santandrea IndividualsMargarita KolosovDarja VarfolomeevGroupAnja KosanDaniella KrommAlina OganesyanFrancine SchöningHannah Vester IndividualsAlba BautistaPolina BerezinaGroupAna ArnauInés BerguaValeria MárquezMireia MartínezPatricia PérezSalma Solaun Individual Finals Sofia Raffaeli Darja Varfolomeev Stiliana Nikolova Sofia Raffaeli Stiliana Nikolova Darja Varfolomeev Sofia Raffaeli Darja Varfolomeev Milena Baldassarri Darja Varfolomeev Stiliana Nikolova Sofia Raffaeli Sofia Raffaeli Stiliana Nikolova Ekaterina Vedeneeva Groups Finals Sofia IvanovaKamelia PetrovaRachel StoyanovRadina TomovaZhenina TrashlievaMargarita Vasileva Shani BakanovAdar FriedmannRomi ParitzkiOfir ShahamDiana Svertsov Ana ArnauInés BerguaValeria MárquezMireia MartínezPatricia PérezSalma Solaun Martina CentofantiAgnese DurantiAlessia MaurelliDaniela MogureanLaura ParisMartina Santandrea* Shani BakanovAdar FriedmannRomi ParitzkiOfir ShahamDiana Svertsov Ana ArnauInés BerguaValeria Márquez*Mireia MartínezPatricia PérezSalma Solaun Sofia IvanovaKamelia PetrovaRachel StoyanovRadina TomovaZhenina TrashlievaMargarita Vasileva* Martina CentofantiAgnese DurantiAlessia MaurelliDaniela MogureanLaura Paris*Martina Santandrea Gullu AghalarzadeLaman AlimuradovaKamilla Aliyeva*Zeynab HummatovaYelyzaveta LuzanDarya Sorokina * reserve gymnast
Individual
Individual Qualification
The top 8 scores in individual apparatus qualify to the apparatus finals and the top 18 in overall qualification scores advance to the all-around final.
Rank Gymnast Nation Total 1 Sofia Raffaeli 32.450 (3) 33.900 (1) 31.000 (7) 32.500 (1)98.850Q 2 Stiliana Nikolova 34.150 (1) 30.300 (11) 32.650 (1) 31.400 (2)98.200Q 3 Darja Varfolomeev 32.300 (4) 32.650 (2) 31.100 (4) 29.150 (10)96.050Q 4 Margarita Kolosov 32.450 (2) 30.100 (12) 30.800 (8) 28.850 (14)93.350Q 5 Viktoriia Onopriienko 30.250 (13) 32.000 (4) 31.050 (6) 28.750 (16)93.300Q 6 Ekaterina Vedeneeva 30.800 (9) 30.700 (7) 31.600 (2) 29.750 (5)93.100Q 7 Adi Asya Katz 31.200 (5) 30.850 (5) 30.650 (9) 29.650 (7)92.700Q 8 Milena Baldassarri 31.200 (6) 32.100 (3) 29.350 (15) 28.000 (20)92.650Q 9 Alba Bautista 28.950 (17) 30.750 (6) 30.500 (10) 30.400 (3)91.650Q 10 Zohra Aghamirova 30.850 (8) 29.400 (17) 30.450 (11) 29.950 (4)91.250Q 11 Takhmina Ikromova 30.700 (10) 29.350 (19) 31.050 (5) 29.100 (11)91.100Q 12 Annaliese Dragan 28.600 (22) 29.800 (13) 31.300 (3) 29.600 (8)90.700Q 13 Fanni Pigniczki 28.500 (23) 30.550 (10) 29.250 (16) 29.700 (6)89.500Q 14 Elzhana Taniyeva 30.650 (11) 29.400 (18) 29.450 (13) 26.950 (29)89.500Q 15 Evita Griskenas 31.050 (7) 29.300 (22) 28.050 (26) 29.050 (12)89.400Q 16 Lili Mizuno 28.950 (19) 30.700 (9) 29.350 (14) 26.700 (31)89.000Q 17 Marina Malpica 29.400 (14) 29.650 (14) 28.500 (22) 26.250 (35)87.550Q 18 Zhao Yating 29.200 (15) 29.400 (16) 28.750 (19) 21.250 (67)87.350Q 19 Andreea Verdes 28.450 (24) 30.700 (8) 28.050 (26) 26.100 (38)87.200R1 20 Polina Berezina 26.350 (44) 29.300 (21) 28.800 (18) 28.850 (14)86.950R2 21 Yosmina Rakhimova 28.400 (25) 29.200 (23) 29.300 (9)86.900R3 22 Helene Karbanov 30.400 (12) 28.650 (26) 26.650 (40) 27.250 (27)86.300R4 23 Geovanna Santos 27.850 (33) 27.100 (42) 29.700 (12) 28.550 (18)86.100 24 Aibota Yertaikyzy 28.950 (18) 28.450 (29) 28.400 (24) 28.700 (17)86.100 25 Panagiota Lytra 29.050 (16) 28.050 (33) 28.500 (21) 27.700 (25)85.600 26 Maelle Millet 28.650 (21) 28.950 (24) 27.550 (30) 27.900 (22)85.500 27 Hanna Panna Wiesner 28.200 (27) 27.150 (41) 29.000 (17) 27.700 (24)84.900 28 Małgorzata Roszatycka 25.400 (47) 28.550 (27) 27.000 (33) 29.050 (13)84.600 29 Polina Karika 27.950 (30) 29.350 (20) 26.900 (34) 84.200 30 Alexandra Kiroi-Bogatyreva 26.850 (41) 28.950 (25) 27.700 (29) 26.250 (34)83.500 31 Anna Sokolova 27.950 (29) 28.500 (28) 26.850 (36) 26.050 (39)83.300 32 Sumire Kita 26.900 (40) 26.600 (47) 28.400 (23) 27.900 (23)83.200 33 Aino Yamada 27.900 (31) 27.650 (38) 25.650 (46) 27.550 (26)83.100 34 Sol Martinez Fainberg 28.950 (20) 25.650 (50) 28.250 (25) 25.450 (45)82.850 35 Suzanna Shahbazian 27.700 (35) 28.250 (30) 26.800 (38) 82.750 36 Carmel Kallemaa 27.050 (37) 27.050 (43) 28.500 (20) 26.500 (33)82.600 37 Elisabeth Jamil 26.450 (43) 28.200 (31) 27.750 (28) 24.200 (52)82.400 38 Kamelya Tuncel 28.100 (28) 27.350 (40) 26.800 (39) 26.800 (30)82.250 39 Livia Maria Chiariello 27.500 (36) 27.950 (34) 25.700 (44) 26.050 (40)81.500 40 Yue Zhao 27.900 (32) 29.450 (15) 24.050 (54)81.400 41 Barbara Domingos 24.500 (54) 28.100 (32) 25.150 (50) 27.950 (21)81.200 42 Melany Keler 28.400 (26) 26.750 (45) 25.700 (45) 26.050 (41)81.200 43 Sohn Ji-in 25.800 (46) 27.700 (36) 25.400 (48) 78.900 44 Maria Dervisi 22.950 (70) 27.500 (39) 26.850 (35) 24.450 (50)78.800 45 Aliaa Saleh 26.600 (42) 27.700 (37) 24.250 (56) 23.750 (58)78.550 46 Rita Araujo 23.250 (69) 25.800 (49) 26.250 (42) 25.800 (43)77.850 47 Nikola Vasiljeva 25.100 (51) 21.600 (77) 26.100 (43) 26.550 (32)77.750 48 Ketevan Arbolishvili 23.450 (65) 26.800 (44) 24.350 (54) 26.200 (36)77.350 49 Michaela Zatkova 23.750 (62) 25.150 (54) 26.450 (41) 25.300 (46)76.900 50 Fausta Sostakaite 25.150 (49) 25.350 (52) 23.450 (61) 25.550 (44)76.050 51 Tamara Artic 23.300 (68) 24.850 (56) 25.400 (47) 25.250 (47)75.500 52 Lina Dussan 25.200 (48) 26.600 (46) 23.100 (64) 22.000 (65)74.900 53 Havana Hopman 22.650 (72) 23.950 (62) 25.300 (49) 24.950 (48)74.200 54 Valentina Domenig-Ozimic 24.300 (57) 25.250 (53) 24.650 (51) 22.100 (64)74.200 55 Yewon Lee 26.500 (48) 23.300 (63) 24.300 (51)74.100 56 Nikolina Lekovic 24.050 (59) 24.700 (58) 24.500 (52) 21.650 (66)73.250 57 Santa Stepulane 23.300 (67) 24.900 (55) 22.950 (65) 24.800 (49)73.000 58 Alessia Verstappen 25.050 (52) 23.450 (65) 24.450 (53) 22.300 (62)72.950 59 Denisa Stepankova 24.400 (56) 24.850 (57) 23.650 (58) 18.500 (77)72.900 60 Sophie Turpel 22.750 (71) 23.850 (63) 24.300 (55) 23.850 (56) 72.000 61 Piyada Peeramatukorn 23.500 (63) 24.150 (60) 23.600 (59) 24.200 (53)71.950 62 Alva Svennbeck 25.150 (50) 23.000 (69) 22.150 (69) 23.750 (57) 71.900 63 Katelin Wie Qi Heng 24.750 (53) 22.650 (70) 23.300 (62) 22.850 (60) 70.900 64 Undram Khashbat 24.150 (58) 24.400 (59) 21.650 (70) 20.800 (70) 70.200 65 Tzu-Wen Li 23.400 (66) 22.600 (73) 24.150 (57) 20.150 (74) 70.150 66 Breanna Labadan 23.950 (60) 22.450 (75) 20.650 (76) 23.450 (59) 69.850 67 Anna-Marie Ondaatje 23.450 (64) 23.400 (66) 22.300 (67) 20.000 (75) 69.150 68 Sevara Khaitova 23.750 (61) 23.300 (68) 21.650 (71) 20.150 (73) 68.700 69 Veronica Sturmilova 24.450 (55) 22.500 (74) 21.050 (73) 15.600 (79) 68.000 70 Berta Miquel 21.750 (75) 23.750 (64) 22.300 (68) 21.150 (68) 67.800 71 Luana Gomes 20.350 (77) 22.600 (72) 18.500 (78) 23.950 (55) 66.900 72 Lai Chun Cheng 22.400 (73) 22.600 (71) 20.800 (75) 20.400 (72) 65.800 73 Matilde Tamagnini 22.150 (74) 18.950 (79) 22.450 (66) 20.650 (71) 65.250 74 Yulia Galukhin 20.100 (78) 21.250 (78) 20.950 (74) 22.200 (63) 64.400 75 Amila Becirovic 20.650 (76) 18.000 (80) 19.000 (77) 22.700 (61) 62.350 76 Meri Poghosyan 18.600 (80) 21.750 (76) 21.450 (72) 18.650 (76) 61.850 77 Alma Pedersen 19.450 (79) 24.000 (61) 18.250 (79) 18.350 (78) 61.800 – Ilona Zeynalova 27.000 (32) 27.050 (28) 54.050 – Joowon Kim 27.700 (34) 26.000 (42) 53.700 – Alina Gozalova 27.000 (39) 25.550 (51) 52.550 – Asya Seker 26.150 (45) 23.500 (60) 49.650 – Isabella Wang 23.300 (67) 21.050 (69) 44.350 – Polina Horodnycha 28.250 (19) 28.250 – Li Huilin 27.400 (31) 27.400 – Asal Akhmedova 26.850 (37) 26.850 – Tatiana Cocsanova 26.100 (37) 26.100 DNF Marfa Ekimova 27.050 (38) 27.800 (35) DNF DNS Daria Atamanov DNS DNS Boryana Kaleyn DNS
All-Around