Everything you need to know about the World Artistic Gymnastics Championships

The 53rd World Artisitic Gymnastics Championships has begun

The biggest gymnastics competition in the world is back!

The World Artistic Gymnastics Championships kicked off on Sunday 19 October in Jakarta, Indonesia, and will go on until Saturday 25 October.

The men's qualifications are now complete, and five British gymnasts have made it to the finals.

The women's qualification stages go on until Tuesday, and everyone's finals will start on Wednesday.

Simone Biles took part in the 2024 Paris Olympics but is choosing not to compete again for a while - she may return for the Olympics in LA in 2028, but she's said she's still undecided

There are no team events this year, which is always the case the year after an Olympics.

American superstar Simone Biles isn't taking part this year, but there are plenty of other incredible athletes to look out for.

We've got everything you need to know about the competition, read on to find out more...

What events are the gymnasts competing in?

Artistic gymnastic tournaments are split into four main parts:

1. Qualifications

2. The team finals (although there aren't any team events this year)

3. The all-around finals

4. The individual finals

In each of these parts, men and women do different events, and they take place in a special order, called the Olympic order.

The beam is a women-only event

For women, there are four events:

• Vault - this is the only apparatus where the gymnast will perform two routines, and the scores for these will then be averaged out

• Uneven bars (women-only event)

• Beam (women-only event)

• Floor

The rings are an event only men can compete in

The men's events are slightly different - they compete on six apparatus, and the order is different, too:

• Floor

• Pommel horse (men-only)

• Rings (men-only)

• Vault

• Parallel bars (men-only)

• Horizontal bar (men-only)

Who's competing from Great Britain?

Jake Jarman competes in pommel and vault but it's the floor where he'll be competing in the final

Jake Jarman, Harry Hepworth, Luke Whitehouse, Joe Fraser and Alex Yolshin-Cash are all in the finals for Great Britain.

Jake Jarman is an Olympic bronze medallist on the floor and the current world vault champion.

He's been the world champion for two years, after becoming the first male British gymnast to get a gold medal at the Worlds in 2023.

However, Jake won't be in with a chance of a vault medal this time as he fell over during qualifications and was disqualified from the final.

But he finished top of the leaderboard on the floor so he will be trying for a medal in that event on Friday, along with triple European floor champion Luke Whitehouse.

Harry Hepworth will be looking for gold in the rings

Jake has apparently got a bit of a friendly rivalry with Harry Hepworth, who won bronze on the vault at the 2024 Paris Olympics - this was also a world first for Team GB, who had never had a medal for the men's vault at the Olympics before.

"It's a good rivalry," Hepworth told BBC Sport. "It's not toxic in any way and I think that's what has helped us get to where we are now."

However, he will also not be in the vault final - he's in with a chance on the rings instead.

Newcomer Alex Yolshin-Cash is appearing at his first World Championships, and he'll be in the pommel horse final after an impressive qualifying routine.

And, Joe Fraser will be competing on the high bar.

Ruby Evans had a few falls in Paris at the Olympics, but says she hopes she's got them out of the way and can now concentrate on the Worlds

There are a lot of World Champions newbies in the women's team, too.

Abi Martin from Wales will be competing in her first World Championships.

She'll be joined by the 2025 British all-around champion Alia Leat, and 16-year-old Shantae-Eve Amankwaah, who are also both competing in the Worlds for the first time.

For Olympian Ruby Evans however, this will be her second time trying to become world champion.

She told BBC Sport the transition into being the older member of the squad with so many new faces, after "being the baby" for so long has been hard but rewarding:

"I can't tell if I love or hate it. It's been hard to step up and have the pressure of making sure everyone's doing everything. I'm just getting used to it," she said.

How can I watch the 2025 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships?

The whole competition will be live on BBC iPlayer and on BBC2.

Wednesday, 22 October

• 12:00-15:30 - Men's all-around final on iPlayer/BBC Sport website

Thursday, 23 October

• 12:00-15:30 - Women's all-around final

• 07:30-12:30 - Individual apparatus finals

Saturday, 25 October

• 07:30-12:30 - Individual apparatus finals

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