1979 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships

1979 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships
LocationUnited States Fort Worth, USA
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The 20th Artistic Gymnastics World Championships were held in Fort Worth, United States, in 1979. In November 1977 the 55th FIG Congress, held in Rome, changed the cycle of world championships: since 1979 they were to be held each two years, and the pre-Olympic ones were to be qualifications for the Olympic tournament. The first 12 teams in the team competition of the 1979 World Championships were invited to participate in the 1980 Summer Olympics.[1]

These were the first World Championships in artistic gymnastics to be held outside of Europe,[2] and the first that China competed at since 1962 following a 1978 vote in which the International Gymnastics Federation voted to accept the People's Republic of China as a member.[3]

  1. ^ "Within International Federations" (PDF). Olympic Review (123): 68. January 1978. Retrieved April 11, 2006.
  2. ^ "World Gymnastics Spur Hopes of U. S." The New York Times. December 3, 1979. Retrieved May 4, 2020.
  3. ^ "Taiwan's appeal fails and China get vote". The Times. October 23, 1978. Retrieved May 4, 2020.