1981 World Rhythmic Gymnastics Championships

1981 World Rhythmic Gymnastics Championships
1981 World Rhythmic Gymnastics Championships
Location	Munich, West Germany
Start date	17 October 1981
End date	20 October 1981
	← London 1979 Strasbourg 1983 →

1981 World Rhythmic Gymnastics Championships were held in Munich, West Germany on October 17 to 20, 1981.

Bulgarian gymnasts won eleven of the sixteen available medals, including all three individual all-around medals. This was the first World Championships where scores were "open", i.e. judges could see the scores given by other judges. Norma Zabka, a judge from the United States, noted that this reduced the influence of the superior judge when attempting to get judges to change their scores.^[1]

Participants

The following countries sent competitors: Australia, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, China, Cuba, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, East Germany, France, Great Britain, Hungary, Israel, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, USA, USSR, West Germany and Yugoslavia.

Individual

Name	Name	Name	Name
Robyne Levit	Daniela Bošanská	Hiroko Yamasaki	Susana Guillen
Fiona Wallace	Iveta Havlíčková	Martha Gonzales	Eva Bergstroem
Gertrude Ramsauer	Liselotte Korsgaard	Angelique de Bruijn	Gunloeg Bergvall
Ulrike Weiss	Mette Lyngholm	Sonja Grünewald	Anna Janson
Ursula Wicklicki	Bianca Dittrich	Susanne Knip	Suzanne Müller
Sarina Roberti	Katrin Huschke	Kerry Dougherty	Somea Paolucci
Laura Monteiro	Petra Loucky	Suzanne Ludlow	Grazia Verzasconi
Maria Campos dos Santos	Christel Roger	Tania Moss	Lydia Bree Crabtree
Laura Seixas	Martine Vital	Marianne Reme	Sue Soffe
Lilia Ignatova	Lynette Gordon	Hilde Soerhaug	Valerie Zimring
Iliana Raeva	Jacqueline Leavy	Shirin Zorriassateiny	Irina Derjugina
Anelia Ralenkova	Timea Englender	Teresa Folga	Irina Devina
Debbie Bryant	Gyorgyi Kovacs	Ewa Figeland-Kowalak	Dalia Kutkaitė
Lori Fung	Brigitta Sziraczky	Anna Klos-Sulima	Anke Abraham
Jane Lazor	Iris Barak	Maria Joao Falcao	Carmen Rischer
Jia Shao	Dafna Gerson	Christina Lebre	Regina Weber
Xin Li	Liath Haninovlitz	Elsa Lebre	Milena Reljin
Xiurong Wang	Manuela Agnolucci	Dorina Cordos	Silvana Sokolov
Aida Hernandez-Barrientos	Claudia Peccianti	Rozica Popescu	Ljiljana Vugic
Roxana Merino-Martinez	Giulia Staccioli	Mihaela Tenasa
Cecilia Juara-Rosell	Kimie Kimura	Eva Alcaraz
Šárka Baťková	Michiyo Ota	Marta Bobo

Groups

Countries who participated in the group competition are as follows.

Nation	Nation	Nation	Nation
Austria	Czechoslovakia	New Zealand	United States
Australia	Great Britain	Norway	USSR
Brazil	Hungary	Poland	West Germany
Bulgaria	Italy	Spain
Canada	Japan	Sweden
China	The Netherlands	Switzerland

Medal table

Place	Country	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Bulgaria	5	7	2	14
2	USSR	1	1	1	3
3	Czechoslovakia	0	0	1	1

Individual Final

Individual All-Around

Place	Name	Rope	Hoop	Clubs	Ribbon	Total
1	Anelia Ralenkova	9.850	9.750	9.800	9.750	39.150
2	Lilia Ignatova	9.850	9.750	9.750	9.700	39.050
2	Iliana Raeva	9.800	9.750	9.700	9.800	39.050
4	Irina Devina	9.650	9.550	9.750	9.800	38.750
5	Dalia Kutkaitė	9.600	9.700	9.600	9.500	38.400
6	Carmen Rischer	9.500	9.600	9.500	9.600	38.200
7	Daniela Bošanská	9.600	9.650	9.600	9.250	38.100
8	Iveta Havlíčková	9.450	9.400	9.500	9.500	37.850
9	Irina Derjugina	9.550	9.750	9.250	9.250	37.800
10	Regina Weber	9.500	9.450	9.350	9.400	37.700
11	Kimie Kimura	9.450	9.500	9.350	9.250	37.550
12	Marta Bobo	9.250	9.400	9.600	9.200	37.450
12	Hiroko Yamasaki	9.400	9.400	9.250	9.400	37.450
14	Anna Klos-Sulima	9.300	9.550	9.500	9.050	37.400
15	Gyorgyi Kovacs	9.400	9.200	9.300	9.350	37.250
16	Šárka Baťková	9.350	9.450	9.400	9.000	37.200
17	Ewa Figeland-Kowalak	9.300	9.400	9.300	9.150	37.150
17	Milena Reljin	9.400	9.300	9.300	9.150	37.150
19	Bianca Dittrich	9.200	9.250	9.400	9.050	36.900
20	Susana Guillen	9.150	9.300	9.250	8.950	36.650
21	Eva Alcaraz	9.250	9.200	9.250	8.900	36.600
22	Michiyo Ota	9.200	9.050	9.300	8.950	36.500
23	Teresa Folga	9.350	9.200	8.900	8.900	36.350
24	Timea Englender	9.250	9.250	8.950	8.850	36.300
24	Anna Janson	9.200	8.950	9.250	8.900	36.300
24	Jia Shao	9.100	9.150	8.950	9.100	36.300
27	Anke Abraham	9.150	9.500	8.450	9.100	36.200
27	Claudia Peccianti	9.000	9.200	9.150	8.850	36.200
29	Petra Loucky	9.500	9.200	9.150	8.300	36.150
30	Lori Fung	9.350	9.200	9.250	8.300	36.100
31	Xiurong Wang	9.150	9.000	9.000	8.900	36.050
32	Katrin Huschke	9.350	9.100	8.300	9.150	35.900
32	Rozica Popescu	9.250	9.250	8.450	8.950	35.900
34	Lydia Bree Crabtree	8.900	9.150	8.900	8.900	35.850
35	Gunloeg Bergvall	9.150	9.000	8.850	8.800	35.800
35	Giulia Staccioli	9.100	9.300	8.850	8.550	35.800
37	Debbie Bryant	9.300	9.050	8.850	8.550	35.750
37	Jane Lazor	9.100	9.150	8.850	8.650	35.750
37	Grazia Verzasconi	8.850	9.050	9.250	8.600	35.750
40	Dorina Cordos	9.350	8.600	8.800	8.950	35.700
40	Angelique de Bruijn	9.050	9.200	8.600	8.850	35.700
42	Sue Soffe	9.150	8.700	8.750	9.050	35.650
42	Mihaela Tenasa	9.300	8.250	8.950	9.150	35.650
44	Aida Hernandez-Barrientos	9.000	8.850	9.000	8.750	35.600
44	Susanne Knip	8.900	9.000	8.950	8.750	35.600
44	Valerie Zimring	9.000	9.300	8.700	8.600	35.600
47	Xin Li	8.800	8.800	8.850	8.950	35.400
48	Roxana Merino-Martinez	8.950	8.900	8.850	8.650	35.350
49	Dafna Gerson	8.750	9.000	8.650	8.900	35.300
49	Jacqueline Leavy	8.900	8.900	8.650	8.850	35.300
49	Marianne Reme	8.800	9.000	9.000	8.500	35.300
52	Lynette Gordon	8.700	8.800	8.950	8.750	35.200
52	Sonja Grünewald	8.800	8.800	9.050	8.550	35.200
52	Silvana Sokolov	9.150	8.600	8.700	8.750	35.200
52	Ljiljana Vugic	8.850	9.100	8.550	8.700	35.200
56	Mette Lyngholm	8.750	8.900	8.900	8.600	35.150
56	Suzanne Müller	8.850	8.900	8.850	8.550	35.150
58	Shirin Zorriassareiny	9.050	8.600	8.850	8.550	35.050
59	Martina Vital	8.850	9.100	8.500	8.500	34.950
60	Liath Haninovlitz	9.000	8.900	8.600	8.400	34.900
60	Liselotte Korsgaard	8.850	8.750	8.850	8.450	34.900
60	Tania Moss	8.900	8.850	8.550	8.600	34.900
60	Christel Roger	8.850	8.900	8.750	8.400	34.900
64	Gertrude Ramsauer	8.850	8.950	8.650	8.500	34.750
65	Kerry Dougherty	8.850	8.600	8.950	8.300	34.700
66	Ulrike Weiss	9.000	89.050	8.300	8.250	34.600
67	Eva Bergstroem	9.000	8.200	8.650	8.650	34.500
68	Hilde Soerhaug	8.800	8.850	8.500	8.200	34.350
69	Iris Barak	8.650	8.550	8.550	8.500	34.250
69	Ursula Wicklicki	8.850	8.850	8.400	8.150	34.250
71	Robyne Levit	8.750	8.750	8.300	8.400	34.200
71	Laura Monteiro	8.600	8.650	8.550	8.400	34.200
73	Laura Seixas	8.750	8.650	8.850	7.900	34.150
74	Cecilia Juara-Rosell	8.900	8.950	8.500	7.700	34.050
75	Elsa Lebre	8.600	8.750	8.450	8.150	33.950
76	Manuela Agnolucci	9.050	7.700	8.500	8.650	33.900
77	Christina Lebre	8.550	8.700	8.500	8.100	33.850
78	Maria Joao Falcao	8.600	8.350	8.450	8.350	33.750
79	Sarina Roberti	8.550	8.500	8.500	8.100	33.650
80	Fiona Wallace	8.550	8.450	8.200	8.200	33.400
81	Somea Paolucci	8.800	7.900	8.500	8.000	33.200
82	Suzanne Ludlow	8.750	8.250	8.450	7.650	33.100
83	Martha Gonzales	8.400	8.300	7.950	7.550	32.200
84	Maria Campos dos Santos	8.700	8.750	8.650	2.500	28.600
85	Brigitta Sziraczky	-	8.650	9.050	7.900	25.600

Individual Rope

Place	Name	All Around	Rope	Total
1	Lilia Ignatova	9.850	9.850	19.700
2	Anelia Ralenkova	9.850	9.750	19.600
3	Iliana Raeva	9.800	9.750	19.550
4	Irina Devina	9.650	9.800	19.450
5	Dalia Kutkaitė	9.600	9.750	19.350
6	Irina Derjugina	9.550	9.700	19.250
7	Daniela Bošanská	9.600	9.750	19.350
8	Carmen Rischer	9.500	9.600	19.100

Individual Hoop

Place	Name	All Around	Hoop	Total
1	Lilia Ignatova	9.750	9.850	19.600
2	Iliana Raeva	9.750	9.800	19.550
2	Anelia Ralenkova	9.750	9.800	19.550
4	Irina Derjugina	9.750	9.750	19.500
5	Dalia Kutkaitė	9.700	9.650	19.350
6	Irina Devina	9.550	9.700	19.250
7	Daniela Bošanská	9.650	9.500	19.150
8	Carmen Rischer	9.600	8.750	18.350

Individual Clubs

Place	Name	All Around	Clubs	Total
1	Anelia Ralenkova	9.800	9.900	19.700
2	Lilia Ignatova	9.750	9.900	19.650
3	Irina Devina	9.750	9.800	19.550
4	Iliana Raeva	9.700	9.800	19.500
5	Daniela Bošanská	9.600	9.750	19.350
6	Dalia Kutkaitė	9.600	9.650	19.250
7	Marta Bobo	9.600	9.500	19.100
7	Carmen Rischer	9.500	9.600	19.100

Individual Ribbon

Place	Name	All Around	Ribbon	Total
1	Irina Devina	9.800	9.900	19.700
2	Iliana Raeva	9.800	9.800	19.600
3	Anelia Ralenkova	9.750	9.800	19.550
4	Lilia Ignatova	9.700	9.800	19.500
5	Carmen Rischer	9.600	9.700	19.300
6	Dalia Kutkaitė	9.500	9.700	19.200
7	Iveta Havlíčková	9.500	9.550	19.050
8	Regina Weber	9.400	9.600	19.000

Group

Preliminaries

Place	Nation	First Exercise	Second Exercise	Total
1	Bulgaria	19.400	19.550	38.950
2	USSR	19.200	19.300	38.500
3	Czechoslovakia	18.850	18.950	37.800
4	Japan	18.700	18.750	37.450
5	Spain	18.150	18.550	36.700
6	West Germany	18.150	18.500	36.650
7	Poland	18.200	18.400	36.600
8	Italy	18.200	18.200	36.400
9	Canada	17.850	18.100	35.950
10	Norway	17.650	18.250	35.900
11	United States	17.600	18.150	35.750
12	Hungary	17.250	18.350	35.600
12	Netherlands	17.500	18.100	35.600
14	Austria	17.550	17.700	35.250
15	Switzerland	17.500	17.600	35.100
16	China	17.450	17.500	34.950
17	Sweden	17.350	17.500	34.850
18	New Zealand	16.900	17.450	34.350
19	Great Britain	17.100	17.150	34.250
20	Brazil	16.600	17.100	34.000
21	Australia	16.750	16.350	33.100

Finals

Place	Nation	Average	Final	Total
1	Bulgaria	19.475	19.100	38.575
2	USSR	19.250	19.100	38.350
3	Czechoslovakia	18.900	19.250	38.150
4	Japan	18.725	19.200	37.925
5	West Germany	18.325	18.750	37.075
6	Poland	18.300	18.650	36.950
7	Spain	18.350	18.550	36.900
8	Italy	18.200	18.250	36.450

References

↑ Mironov, Zina; Svirskiy, Alla; Zabka, Norma (February 1982). "Rhythmic Gymnastics World Championships". USGF Gymnastics. Vol. 11, no. 1. pp. 53–57. Retrieved 2025-05-25.
"10. World Championships from 17.-20. October 1981 in Munich, (West Germany)". rsg.net. Retrieved 2025-05-25.

External links

FIG, the International Governing Body for Rhythmic Gymnastics

[1] Mironov, Zina; Svirskiy, Alla; Zabka, Norma (February 1982). "Rhythmic Gymnastics World Championships". USGF Gymnastics. Vol. 11, no. 1. pp. 53–57. Retrieved 2025-05-25.

[RSG-2] "10. World Championships from 17.-20. October 1981 in Munich, (West Germany)". rsg.net. Retrieved 2025-05-25.

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