World Artistic Gymnastics Championships – Men's vault

The men's vault competition at the World Artistic Gymnastics Championships^[1]^[2] was first contested in 1934. It has been held in every year since its inception.

Three medals are awarded: gold for first place, silver for second place, and bronze for third place. Tie breakers have not been used in every year. In the event of a tie between two gymnasts, both names are listed, and the following position (second for a tie for first, third for a tie for second) is left empty because a medal was not awarded for that position. If three gymnastics tied for a position, the following two positions are left empty.

Medalists

Bold number in brackets denotes record number of victories.

Year	Location	Gold	Silver	Bronze
1934	Budapest	Eugen Mack	Eduard Steinemann	Romeo Neri
1938	Prague	Eugen Mack	Walter Beck	Hans Nägelin
1942	Not held due to World War II
1950	Basel	Ernst Gebendinger	Olavi Rove	Walter Lehmann
1954	Rome	Leo Sotorník	Helmut Bantz	Sergei Dzhayani
1958	Moscow	Yuri Titov	Masao Takemoto	Takashi Ono
1962	Prague	Přemysl Krbec	Haruhiro Yamashita	Yukio Endō Boris Shakhlin
1966	Dortmund	Haruhiro Yamashita	Takeshi Katō	Akinori Nakayama
1970	Ljubljana	Mitsuo Tsukahara	Viktor Klimenko	Takeshi Katō
1974	Varna	Shigeru Kasamatsu	Nikolai Andrianov	Hiroshi Kajiyama
1978	Strasbourg	Junichi Shimizu	Nikolai Andrianov	Ralph Bärthel
1979	Fort Worth	Alexander Dityatin	Nikolai Andrianov	Ralph Bärthel Bart Conner
1981	Moscow	Ralf-Peter Hemmann	Artur Akopyan	Bohdan Makuts
1983	Budapest	Artur Akopyan	Li Ning	Bernd Jensch
1985	Montreal	Yuri Korolyov	Laurent Barbiéri Lou Yun	—
1987	Rotterdam	Sylvio Kroll Lou Yun	—	Dian Kolev
1989	Stuttgart	Jörg Behrend	Sylvio Kroll	Vladimir Artemov
1991	Indianapolis	Yoo Ok-ryul	Vitaly Scherbo	Yutaka Aihara
1992	Paris	Yoo Ok-ryul	Ihor Korobchynskyi	Victor Colon Curtis Hibbert
1993	Birmingham	Vitaly Scherbo	Chang Feng-chih	Yoo Ok-ryul
1994	Brisbane	Vitaly Scherbo	Li Xiaoshuang	Yeo Hong-chul
1995	Sabae	Hrihoriy Misyutin Alexei Nemov	—	Vitaly Scherbo
1996	San Juan	Alexei Nemov	Andrea Massucchi Yeo Hong-chul	—
1997	Lausanne	Sergey Fedorchenko	Nikolai Kryukov	Adrian Ianculescu
1999	Tianjin	Li Xiaopeng	Jevgēņijs Saproņenko	Dieter Rehm
2001	Ghent	Marian Drăgulescu	Jevgēņijs Saproņenko	Charles León Tamayo
2002	Debrecen	Li Xiaopeng	Leszek Blanik	Yang Wei
2003	Anaheim	Li Xiaopeng	Marian Drăgulescu	Kyle Shewfelt
2005	Melbourne	Marian Drăgulescu	Leszek Blanik	Alin Jivan
2006	Aarhus	Marian Drăgulescu	Dmitry Kasperovich	Fabian Hambüchen
2007	Stuttgart	Leszek Blanik	Ilie Daniel Popescu	Ri Se-gwang
2009	London	Marian Drăgulescu (4)	Flavius Koczi	Anton Golotsutskov
2010	Rotterdam	Thomas Bouhail	Anton Golotsutskov	Dmitry Kasperovich
2011	Tokyo	Yang Hak-seon	Anton Golotsutskov	Makoto Okiguchi
2013	Antwerp	Yang Hak-seon	Steven Legendre	Kristian Thomas
2014	Nanning	Ri Se-gwang	Igor Radivilov	Jacob Dalton
2015	Glasgow	Ri Se-gwang	Marian Drăgulescu	Donnell Whittenburg
2017	Montreal	Kenzō Shirai	Igor Radivilov	Kim Han-sol
2018	Doha	Ri Se-gwang	Artur Dalaloyan	Kenzō Shirai
2019	Stuttgart	Nikita Nagornyy	Artur Dalaloyan	Igor Radivilov
2021	Kitakyushu	Carlos Yulo	Hidenobu Yonekura	Andrey Medvedev
2022	Liverpool	Artur Davtyan	Carlos Yulo	Igor Radivilov
2023	Antwerp	Jake Jarman	Khoi Young	Nazar Chepurnyi

All-time medal count

Last updated after the 2023 World Championships.


Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Japan	5	4	8	17
2	Soviet Union	4	6	4	14
3	Romania	4	4	2	10
4	China	4	3	1	8
5	South Korea	4	1	3	8
6	Russia	3	5	1	9
7	Switzerland	3	2	3	8
8	East Germany	3	1	3	7
9	North Korea	3	0	1	4
10	Belarus	2	1	2	5
11	Czechoslovakia	2	0	0	2
12	Ukraine	1	2	3	6
13	Poland	1	2	0	3
14	France	1	1	0	2
14	Philippines	1	1	0	2
16	Great Britain	1	0	1	2
17	Armenia	1	0	0	1
17	Kazakhstan	1	0	0	1
19	United States	0	2	3	5
20	Latvia	0	2	0	2
21	Italy	0	1	1	2
22	CIS ^[a]	0	1	0	1
	Chinese Taipei	0	1	0	1
	Finland	0	1	0	1
	West Germany	0	1	0	1
26	Canada	0	0	2	2
27	Bulgaria	0	0	1	1
	Cuba	0	0	1	1
	Germany	0	0	1	1
	Israel	0	0	1	1
	Puerto Rico	0	0	1	1
Totals (31 entries)		44	42	43	129

Note

^[a] Official FIG documents credit medals earned by athletes from former Soviet Union at the 1992 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships in Paris, France, as medals for CIS (Commonwealth of Independent States).

Multiple medalists

Rank	Gymnast	Nation	Years	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Marian Drăgulescu	Romania	2001–2015	4	2	0	6
2	Ri Se-gwang	North Korea	2007–2018	3	0	1	4
3	Li Xiaopeng	China	1999–2003	3	0	0	3
4	Vitaly Scherbo	Soviet Union Belarus	1991–1995	2	1	1	4
5	Yoo Ok-ryul	South Korea	1991–1993	2	0	1	3
6	Eugen Mack	Switzerland	1934–1938	2	0	0	2
	Alexei Nemov	Russia	1995–1996	2	0	0	2
	Yang Hak-seon	South Korea	2011–2013	2	0	0	2
9	Leszek Blanik	Poland	2002–2007	1	2	0	3
10	Artur Akopyan	Soviet Union	1981–1983	1	1	0	2
	Sylvio Kroll	East Germany	1987–1989	1	1	0	2
	Lou Yun	China	1985–1987	1	1	0	2
	Haruhiro Yamashita	Japan	1962–1966	1	1	0	2
	Carlos Yulo	Philippines	2021–2022	1	1	0	2
15	Kenzō Shirai	Japan	2017–2018	1	0	1	2
16	Nikolai Andrianov	Soviet Union	1974–1979	0	3	0	3
17	Igor Radivilov	Ukraine	2014–2022	0	2	2	4
18	Anton Golotsutskov	Russia	2009–2011	0	2	1	3
19	Artur Dalaloyan	Russia	2018–2019	0	2	0	2
19	Jevgēņijs Saproņenko	Latvia	1999–2001	0	2	0	2
21	Dmitry Kasperovich	Belarus	2006–2010	0	1	1	2
	Takeshi Katō	Japan	1966–1970	0	1	1	2
	Yeo Hong-chul	South Korea	1994–1996	0	1	1	2
24	Ralph Bärthel	East Germany	1978–1979	0	0	2	2

References

^ "47th FIG Artistic Gymnastics World Championships MONTREAL (CAN)". live.fig-gymnastics.com. Fédération Internationale de Gymnastique. Retrieved 2018-09-06.
^ "48th FIG Artistic Gymnastics World Championships DOHA (QAT)". www.fig-gymnastics.com. Fédération Internationale de Gymnastique. Retrieved 2018-09-06.

[1] "47th FIG Artistic Gymnastics World Championships MONTREAL (CAN)". live.fig-gymnastics.com. Fédération Internationale de Gymnastique. Retrieved 2018-09-06.

[2] "48th FIG Artistic Gymnastics World Championships DOHA (QAT)". www.fig-gymnastics.com. Fédération Internationale de Gymnastique. Retrieved 2018-09-06.

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