She earned 15.733 on the floor, 16.000 and 16.100 from her two vaults, 15.000 on the asymmetric bars, and 15.633 on the balance beam.
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A gold medalist on the asymmetric bars in 1996 and 2000 Olympics, Khorkina also became the first woman to claim three world all-around titles.
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There was also gold medal success for Germany's Fabian Hambuchen (horizontal bar), Ukraine's Oleg Verniaiev (parallel bars, North Korea's Ri Se-gwang (vault), Greece's Eleftherios Petrounias (rings) and Russia's Aliya Mustafina (asymmetric bars).
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Hungary's Boglarka Devai won the vault, Belgium's Nina Derwael successfully defended her asymmetric bars title, Dutch Olympic champion Sanne Wevers prevailed on the balance beam and French starlet Melanie de Jesus was victorious on the floor.
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She had the opportunity in Saturday's asymmetric bars final to become the most decorated gymnast ever at the worlds but failed to repeat her silver-medal display from Doha last year and settled for fifth spot.
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RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - A nervous Russian female gymnastics team slipped up time and again in qualifying on Sunday in the Rio Olympic Arena and not until they mounted the asymmetric bars did the former powerhouse redeem themselves.
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Rattled with her poor execution on the vault, the Russian was clearly not herself when she mounted her trademark apparatus — the asymmetric bars — and messed up a routine she could usually perform to perfection even if she was blindfolded.
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Angelina Melnikova, the outstanding performer in Russia's win on Friday, was the only member of the victorious team to win an apparatus medal, taking silver in the vault and bronze on the asymmetric bars at the SSE Hydro arena.
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RIO DE JANEIRO, Aug 14 (Reuters) - Russia's Aliya Mustafina finally ended the American women's stranglehold at the Rio Games as she captured the asymmetric bars gold for a second successive Olympics with a routine full of grace and power.
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RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - With the help of a toy monkey and an afternoon nap, Russia's Aliya Mustafina finally ended the U.S. women's stranglehold on gymnastics in Rio by winning the asymmetric bars for a second successive Olympics, with a routine full of grace and power.
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In 2007, the Amanda Kirby Trophy was introduced in English Gymnastics (alongside the Beth Tweddle Trophy), in honour of her years of dedicated coaching and for producing a world champion (Beth Tweddle won the 2006 World Championships on the Asymmetric Bars). The award is made annually to the coach of the gymnast in the senior English gymnastics championships who scores the highest mark on the asymmetric bars.
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Various gymnastics apparatuses. Apparatuses shown include the horizontal (high) bar, the uneven bars, and still rings. ;AA: Abbreviation for all- around. ;AB: A scoring abbreviation for uneven bars, from the name asymmetric bars.
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Cardiff Olympic Gymnastics Club, founded in 1948 as a ladies artistic gymnastics club, opened a boys section in September 1999. It is the oldest established and 'most senior' ladies artistic gymnastics club in Wales. The club, based in Grangetown, has over 400 members. The Girls Gymnastics section compete on four pieces of apparatus: asymmetric bars; beam; floor; and vault.
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In 2004, Rhian became champion on asymmetric bars and balance beam at the Junior British National Championships. She also won gold on the bars at the European Junior Championships with a routine described as "uniquely original" by the judges. She later joined the senior squad representing Wales at the 2006 Commonwealth Games. Pugh says Russian gymnast, Svetlana Khorkina is her favourite gymnast.
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A Teza is one of several gymnastics moves introduced by French gymnast Elvire Teza in the 1990s, and subsequently named after her in the Code of Points. Most commonly, it refers to a variation of the Yurchenko loop with a full twisting handspring on the balance beam. However, there is one more move named after her on the beam, as well as two further elements on the asymmetric bars.
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