Most Successful Female Gymnasts of All Time - World Championships 

Yes it is! She's one of my faves.

While I advocate for mental health and Simones is 100% GOAT, I do sometimes wonder what happened if Simone did competed 2021 and 2022 worlds. Would it be better? Would it be worse?

@@huangreymin6162She also didn't compete in 2017 either (having taken a year off from the 2016 Olympics).

@@huangreymin6162 I think because of COVID there wasn't a Worlds one of those years! I definitely think it would have increased with the other 3 years...(Vault, Floor, Team, and AA) Even if it wasn't Gold she would have been on the Podium. (Execution Alone she could have done a watered down routine and received a medal)

@@huangreymin6162 Opinion: If COVID did not happen - Simone would have won 5 Golds at the 2020 Olympics and retired. 2019 Simone was peaking; however, COVID threw so many athletes off their game that I don't even consider the 2020 (2021) Olympics a valid competition. There are no World Championships in artistic gymnastics during Olympic years. The Olympics is essentially a World Championship competition with more press and hype. Lastly, I think the breaks made Simone a better athlete.

Well but she also competes in the open code, in the 10 system she wouldn’t have won some of her medals, like the all around in 2018 or some of her floor with how many times she goes out of bounds, still she would be first place though but maybe not by such a huge margin

don't count on it, their program completely collapsed while programs in other countries (Brazil, UK, etc) are flourishing.

You do not get points for elegance in gymnastics! You get marks for agility and difficulty!!! It's a sport! Get over it

Where is Nadia? The Quinn Nadia?

And second place has only 9 golds and 20 total medals!!

37 now in total

And she took 2 years off and came back like it was easy to her. Can you imagine if she didn’t struggle at Tokyo if she competed with more possible medals. I’m glad she is changing the way gymnastics should be looked at when it comes to safety and mental health of the gymnasts. I hope they take away the spotter penalty on vault because I have been a big fan of gymnastics through the decades and always thought that they should have spotters on vault like they do for uneven bars because it’s very dangerous then you have to block off the horse and with the landings. The timing has to be right. So many devastating injuries from that apparatus IMO.

Not only will she never be caught I doubt anyone bet even gets close

But never say never, let’s hope newer generations take the sport even further. What other jumps have we not witness yet.

Sim, ela foi um verdadeiro fenômeno. Ninguém da atualidade faz o que ela fazia nas traves e nas barras

Fazer o que ela fazia nas barras é literalmente impossível, porque as barras estão mais distantes agora.

She was great, but Simone Biles is undeniably the G.G.O.A.T.; the greatest gymnast of all time.

She learned her style by watching videos of Chinese bars

Ye but bars is her worst event lmao. There are better...@@miaj94

The entire style was more like ballet, dancing and tumbling. The style now is pure athleticism. The girls weigh a lot more because they are muscular.

@@lisafarrell5996 I wouldn't go quite that far. There is still a lot of dance in many aspects. But you can no longer get away with MOSTLY dance. Today you have to have strength and more athletic skill too.

simone ja tem 10 anos de carreira, a nossa Rebeca ta no segundo ano e já é a #35, fora a flavia e as outras

@@iFlashScarlet Exatamente, que Deus abençoe e cuide das nossas atletas , pois elas vão trazer muita alegria ao nosso país e o Respeito que devemos receber pelos outros países elas vão impor com o talento delas. Só espero que invistam mais no esporte na Ginástica, que elas tenham o suporte necessário, pois podemos ser o pais número 1 para isso . Material humano sempre tivemos com grandes nomes , sempre faltou auxílio e investimento. Rebeca hj é o nome mundial daqui 5 anos será sobrenatural 🥰

@@iFlashScarlet Mano a Daiane não tá na lista?

​@@iFlashScarletA Rebeca na verdade tem 8, só que foi tanta lesão, que ela começou a competir realmente em 2021.

​@@sasukebyakA Daiane tem 1 medalha em mundial, o ouro de 2003.

Including Olympic medals (5 points for gold, 4 silver and 3 bronze) she placed 38th with 27 points.

@@gymnasticfan9148 Interesting, thanks!

Melnikova is amazing… but very inconsistent. That’s the biggest reason she doesn’t have as many medals as some. She definitely got better over time!

Thanks ❤️

That's exactly the problem and quite accurate too because they even use that as the reason they don't know but with a backhand insult of their youth as if Google isn't accessible. The worst part is that they don't even take the time to read the title.

Já estaria msm, mas ela só precisa de 1 mundial pra entrar. Do 23 pro 10 é muito próximo.

Com 3 mundiais ela já conseguiu isso tudo, e em um deles ela não fez solo e individual geral, q com certeza eram mais 2 medalhas.

@@gymnasticfan9148 e poderia ter sido tricampeã mundial de salto não fosse aquele erro no segundo salto dela nas qualificatórias ano passado.

@@Ney_Duarte Nem me lembra disso kkk

Em Performance e talento já está. Totalmente!!

Fully agree!

3, imagina se ela continua até 2032, seria top 2 fácil.

​@@gymnasticfan9148 se a biles se aposentar, ela vai subir muito rápido nessa lista kkk

Yes! Idk, I counted her medals from 1987 but put 1989 here. Maybe it’s a mistake since the older version and I didn’t notice.

I think you were the first to notice. I just watched the older video and has the same mistake ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-9K54UoGAc84.htmlsi=252PshtU57TaAfuf

That poor black girl doesn't even come close to the real GOAT Nadia Comaneci

that's why it's illegal nowadays. such a dismount = instant disqualification. people died or got disabled for life practicing it.

Around 50th place with 2 Golds and 2 Silver

🤣🤣🤣😂😂😂

Did you notice that this video is about medals at Worlds? I used real numbers. "should be in the top ten at least" why? Nadia has 4 medals at Worlds, the last place here has 7.

Nadia Comăneci achieved a historic performance. At the Montreal Olympics, at the age of 14, she achieved the first grade of 10 in the history of gymnastics. She then went on to score six more perfect 10s in the same competition. In total she won 9 Olympic medals, five of which were gold.

@@gymnasticfan9148 Olympic medals are the most valuable. Nadia has 9 of which 5 are gold.

@@oanamanolescu1143 Not in this video, it's about Worlds, World Championships, not Olympics.

@@oanamanolescu1143you need to learn how to read

I didn't notice I forgot to change her nationality (Rebeca's text was the basis in the edit)

She didn’t win that many world medals to count

There is a record for perceived "beauty, elegance, difficulty and strength?" How we did not know that?????

Even tho she didn't compete in 2011 Worlds, she was still named as a team member and received the medal.

O único parâmetro foi medalha, como ela só tem 1, acabou n entrando no top 40

Agreed. There was a Romanian gymnast in the floor final for this world's and wow she looked amazing and I bet we'll see more of her. Hopefully she brings the Romanian gymnastics back into the fold.

@@HB-ey2dk Romanian/Russian gymnasts were great, but I’m sure proud to see Simone Biles, an American gymnast has taken the gymnastics world by storm. ▪️Simone is an A-M-A-Z-I-N-G gymnast with a M-A-G-N-I-F-I-C-E-N-T talent. As a former gymnast, we should all be proud of her. The world has never seen this kind of talent come from American gymnastics. ▪️Not sure why the focus on former gymnasts who are not even competing anymore. Simone Biles is undeniably the G.G.O.A.T.; the greatest gymnast of all time and she’s got the medals to prove it.

⁠@@miaj94Are you part of a campaign trail of some sort here?… This is a video appreciating 70 years of gymnasts through the decades. Simone is wonderful, but to say you’re “not sure why anyone is focused on people not competing anymore” is completely antithetical to the video itself. 😂 Of the 40 women featured here, only about 3 or 4 are still competing. Relax. Simone is the most successful. 👍🏼

@@miaj94 - I completely agree. It's ridiculous and I don't want to speculate as to why.

@@taaaylllorrr - But see here's the problem with your comment. The video clearly stated Most Successful Female Gymnasts of All Time - World Championships. If the Romanian/Russian female is not in the top 40 they are not the *Most Successful Female Gymnasts of All Time - World Championships*. In addition the comment was [THEY are]' not sure why the focus is on former gymnasts who are not even competing anymore. Dang, I sincerely hope English is your second language.

You mean from 1979 to 1991. In the 90s they had Worlds every single year, including 1992 and 1996.

The gymnasts in the 50s and 60s had much less competition tho, and the score was more subjective.

@@gymnasticfan9148 Not quiet. There was no world championships in 1990 and in 1999. Furthermore, there was no all around or team competitions at the 1992 and 1996 worlds. The current schedule (with worlds every year except on Olympic years) was adopted. in 2001.

​@@gymnasticfan9148I'll have to disagree on the first point. Back then it was much more difficult to qualify for the all-around or event finals. Teams were made up of 6 gymnasts, with each gymnast having to compete on all four events during the optionals and team final. This meant that a powerhouse like the USSR could have all six of its gymnasts competing for all-around and event final spots, unlike today, when each team can only have two (and on rare occasions three) gymnasts compete for an all-around spot. Between the USSR, East Germany, and Romania, there were 18 out of 18 potential all-around finalists, making it impossible for gymnasts from non-Eastern European countries to even earn a spot in a final. At the 1974 World Championships, prior to per-country limits and before Nadia Comaneci's debut, the USSR won 14 of the possible 16 medals a country could win in women's events. The floor final consisted of just one non-USSR athlete, with the Soviets finishing in spots 1 through 5. In the balance beam final, the Soviets took the first four spots. During the 1981 World Championships in Moscow, Soviet women finished in spots 1 through 6 after qualification and team final, and went on to sweap all three medals at the AA final. At the 1972 Olympics only USSR and East Germany won any individual medals (Hungary who finished in 3rd place for team was the only other medalist that year).

@@NYAndreas The score back then was much more subjective, so the judges could be more impartial. Just compare the number of athletes competing for an all around medal in the 90s with the gymnasts in 50s and 60s, they had much, much less competition before. My point was about the 50 and 60s, you are taking about 70+

She is here at 4:14. She only went to 1 Worlds, and still won 5 medals.

But Biles Is only 2 years older than Rebeca. Rebeca had a lot of injuries that took out her chances to compete before.

Rebeca can certainly still move up this list but she will have more competition going forward.

Rebeca has been competing on the international stage since at least 2016. Even taking out the years she couldn't compete due to injury, she's been in the game for more than 3 years. She is now finally hitting her stride, but she has been around for a while.

@@cleogyrl At Worlds, before 2021, she only competed in 2018, but was recovering from an injury and didn't compete floor.

She has 3 silver and 1 Bronze at Worlds

That poor black girl doesn't even come close to the real GOAT Nadia Comaneci

@@TheCanto777 Nadia is an G.O.A.T.

2 gold and 2 silver at the world championships.

@@franctarazzo Olympic medals are the most valuable. Nadia has 9 of which 5 are gold.

@@oanamanolescu1143 but this is for world medals only. Learn how to read, is says so in the title of the video

Yeah. Train alongside THE GOAT.

Her world medal count is 4 (🥇🥇🥈🥈) =10 points

I didn't, she placed 47th (with 10 points). The video included the top 40.

No she didn’t win enough medals to be included

Around 64th place wtih 8 points

Ela só tem 1 medalha em mundiais

53rd with 3 golds

But in this video they weren't included. I gave more points to Olympic medals when I made the Worlds + Olympic version, and I will update that ranking/video after Paris.

It's here: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-8ZG7qQnJa80.htmlsi=sQJP5FYVJxPs_P9w

She would only have 10 points with the scoring system.

This video is only about Worlds. Both have the same amount of medals but Kim has 3 golds and Lilia 2….

O ranking é sobre medalhas em mundiais, ela tem 5, a última colocada aqui tem 7

Nadia has 2 Golds and 2 Silver, she placed 47th here. Mary Lou doesn't have any Worlds medal. Both stood out at Olympics, I will wait till the end of Paris Games to include Olympics

@@gymnasticfan9148 Pesquisei Nadia teve 5 ouro, 3 pratas e 1 bronze ao todo.

@@Luederson Nas olimpíadas, esse vídeo não tá incluindo as medalhas olímpicas

@@gymnasticfan9148 Nadia Comăneci achieved a historic performance. At the Montreal Olympics, at the age of 14, she achieved the first grade of 10 in the history of gymnastics. She then went on to score six more perfect 10s in the same competition. In total she won 9 Olympic medals, five of which were gold.

@@oanamanolescu1143 Yes, but this video is about medals at Worlds. I thought the title was clear.

Dominique has three silvers and one bronze at worlds. Gabby has two golds and a silver at worlds. Going by the OPs scoring, they scored a 7 and missed the cutoff.

@@norasmith2474 Thank you for the reply. I will take a look at the scoring.

Talvez porque eles têm alto investimento no esporte? E bastante miscigenação genética, que fazem com que vários atletas de vários esportes diferentes se destaquem.

She has only 1 medal.

@@gymnasticfan9148mas ela possui mais duas medalhas de ouro nas finais de copa do mundo (2004, Birminghan; 2006, São Paulo)

@@gessicapatricio6157 Mas esse vídeo é sobre mundiais, copa do mundo n conta.

@@gymnasticfan9148 She has 9 gold world cups i think.

@@sasukebyak World Cups ≠ World Championships

É kkk, eu que não reparei o erro. Só vi depois pq avisaram aqui nos comentários. Eu sempre pego um texto e uso de base pro resto, nesse vídeo foi o da Rebeca, por isso ficou como brasileira kkkk.

How is the way this list is put together relevant to your final point?

@@norasmith2474 I just gave up trying to understand these type of comments

@@norasmith2474 Simone was/is my biggest inspiration for this channel. The first 5 videos of this channel were about her, most videos here are about her.

@@gymnasticfan9148 Please, you don't need to even reply to these crazy ass comments.

Was more focused on form

It's not a personal opinion tho, it's all about medals

Nadia Comaneci actually only competed at World's twice (1978 and 1979), and only won two individual medals, and four overall (two of them gold). She is notable more for having better Olympic success (9 medals, 5 gold) and for her perfect 10 performance at the 1976 Olympics. But she lacked longevity at the top of the sport relative to the others. If it were a list of best "Olympic gymnasts" she would place higher. But looking only at the World Championships, she wouldn't make the cut.

​@@captainbryce1Great explanation! I was wondering that myself. Thank you

She did not win because she was actually injured. Also before 1978 WC were kept every two years not annually, so she did not have the chance to compete in so many. In 1979 in Q she was first before the injury, and then she was introduced injured on the last moment and had to imporovise routines she could do without using her injured hand and finally gave Romania its first Team World Title. Also, if you look at her count at the Europeans (which were practically equivalent to the worlds as competitiveness since no one outside of Europe was even relevant) she has 9G, 2S, 1 B. She could have had even more Euro medals in 1977 but Ceausescu ordered the Romanian team to exit the competition because how biased the jury was in favor of the Soviets. The idea that she resisted little at the top is ridiculous. She totally dominated the time frame from 1975 to 1980 when she was active, except for the year she was depressed and she decided to compete at the very last moment (parents divorce, massive harassements from the Secret Police,, separation from coach, etc.). She started training only 2 month before the WC and she still got 3 medals (1978WC). Plus, she is until now the only person to have Gold followed by Silver at 2 consecutive olympics in AA. Simone was expected to knock down this record in Tokio but she hadn't. At Olympics she has 5G, 3S, 1B, and few know that she was actually injured in Montreal when she got the first 10, She had the capability to win gold on absolutely every apparatus. In Skien, the year before the Olympics she had 4 individual Golds (AA, BB, VT,UB,) and 1 Silver on FL and in between the 2 meets she actually scored a floor routine at 10 in a world cup, routine she could not actually do in Montreal because of injury, otherwise her medal count could have been 5 individual Olympic golds. She retired at 18 as most gymnasts did at that time.

@@amethyst2823 With all due respect, you just ran through a litany of EXCUSES for why Nadia "should be" on this list, but somehow isn't. She was injured, the Soviets were biased, the championships weren't held as often, she was tired, she decided at the last minute, her parents divorced, she got injured, she could have been there, she retired at 18, etc. etc. I'm sorry but these are all just EXCUSES! Every gymnast has personal trials and tribulations they go through and many of these same things could be said of most of the gymnasts on this list. Sometimes luck is a factor. But at the end of the day, they all made the list and she did not. Because it's the numbers that matter in history, not the excuses. Nadia competed at the 1978 Worlds and won Balance Beam and placed second on vault. I don't like how loose people are with the word "dominate" in sports. She certainly did not dominate in 1978 - if anyone did it was Nellie Kim and Elena Mukhina! Nadia also did not dominate in 1979 because Nellie Kim won the World all-around title, and 4 individual medals that year. Nadia didn't win any individual medals outside of the European championships (which is a less prestigious event). While the European Championships may be the most prestigious outside of the FIG sponsored events, it's not an FIG event and never has been, which is why nobody ever gets moves named after them there. And they were only held every two years as well, so you can't say that Nadia would have won in 1976, 1978, or 1980 - that's just speculation. So when you say she "totally dominated" from 1975 to 1980, that's a bit of an exaggeration for several reasons. While Simone Biles has had more opportunities to compete at World's than Nadia did, she's had ZERO opportunities to compete at European Championships. She also decided to compete well into her mid 20s, while Nadia decided to retire for various reasons. But at the end of the day, she wasn't as good post-1980 as she was pre-1980. Even if the World's had only been held every 2 years up until now, Simone would still have won 4 all-around titles, and Nadia would still have won zero. And if Simone Biles had been allowed to compete at the European Championships, she most likely would have dominated there too - but she hasn't because she's not European! I realize your comment wasn't intended to be a comparison between Nadia and Simone, but I thought it was important keep things in perspective. Nadia was a great gymnast, and she will still widely be remembered as one of the all-time greats, despite her lack of success at world's. She can legitimately be said to have dominated between 1975-1977, with some additional success from 1978-1980. But as I said, her legacy is mostly due to her performance at the 1976 Olympics where she earned the first "perfect 10s" and most overall. She popularized the sport internationally, and many gymnasts were inspired by her accomplishment. However, she did compete in the all-around at the 1978 World Championships and 1980 Olympics and lost both times. You cannot legitimately say she "totally dominated" during that timeframe when she's losing in the all-around multiple times. From 2013-2023 Simone has NEVER lost an all-around competition in any years that she's competed. That is true dominance of the sport! When you cannot be beaten in the all-around at any level (national, international, continental, Olympics, etc) for a decade, then you are dominating.

@@captainbryce1 Excuses! You are ridiculous! Nelli Kim dominated in 1979 only after Nadia got out of competition. As long as Nadia was in the competition, she did not dominate anything! Nadia had absolutely no problem beating Mukhina at the next Europeans when she actually trained for the competition! These are facts not excuses.

Foi um erro na hora da edição, o texto base foi o da Rebeca, acabei esquecendo de trocar o país.

Nadia hadn't too many Worlds medals (only 4), she was more successful at Olympics where she won 9.

@@gymnasticfan9148 GHEEZ!! The amount of time already you have had to say this! MY WORD! I am convinced some people just come on here looking for someone in particular without READING what the video is actually about.

@@gymnasticfan9148 oh well, thought that the fact to obtain perfect 10s could have an honorary place in the list. Thanks for the clarification! You responded respectfully to my question 🙂

@@wimflores I was thinking in maybe do a more subjective video, highlighting gymnasts who made history in gymnastics.

This video didn’t include Olympics, only World Championships. It’s in the title

The only Worlds Olga Korbut competed was 1974…

@@gymnasticfan9148 okay, my bad then, but it's strange to not include olympics when it's the most important event

@@kunegundabrunhildabrum-bru4306 I didn’t include because I will also do one including Olympics after Paris

Yes

@@gymnasticfan9148 she 30 metal

@@pearlderougemont6553 23+4+3 = 30

gold3 silver 2 bonze1, is simple! @@gymnasticfan9148

i thought the same, Nadia was so successful

They are below 40. That's why. See the pinned list above. Nadia is 47th, Aly is 59th and Gabby is 65th.

@@nialcc Ok. Got it. Thanks. 😁

Imagina se fosse então. A mulher ganhou 30 medalhas em 33 finais que disputou, executa os elementos mais difíceis do código melhor do que a maioria das outras ginastas executam os elementos de dificuldade média. É super consistente, quase nunca tem um erro grande, conseguiu ganhar uma final de individual geral mesmo com duas quedas e ainda ficou com uma boa distância pra segunda. Imagina se ela se fosse boa hein.

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