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A power packed lineup at the competition in Japan required amazing routines to medal.

Ivana Hong won bronze on the balance beam, the Americansa only medal Sunday at the world gymnastics championships.

Unlike the men's competition , which was dominated by Japan's Kohei Uchimura from the outset, there is no clear favorite to take the women's all-around title tonight at London's O2 Arena.

Britain's Louis Smith has advanced to the pommel horse final at the world championships in London.

AUSTRALIAN teenager Lauren Mitchell stamped her arrival as an international gymnastics star with two silver medals at the world championships.

China bagged home three golds at the 41st Artistic Gymnastics World Championships here on Sunday to finish their 2012 Olympics venue trip with a total of six titles.

Wang edged teammate Feng Zhe to give China its fifth gold medal at this worlds. Kazuhito Tanaka of Japan won the bronze medal.

Medalists pose during the victory ceremony of women's All-Around final of the 41st Artistic Gymnastics World Championships in London, Britain, Oct.

LONDON -- Bridget Sloan won a team silver medal at the 2008 Beijing Olympics. Now, 14 months later, she is in contention for a couple of individual medals.

Bridget Sloan grabbed a last-gasp victory in the all-around final at the gymnastics world championships on Friday after American team mate Rebecca Bross blew her chance with a bumpy landing in her floor routine.

He and Hong lead Asian charge LONDON: Olympic champions He Kexin of China and North Korea's Hong Un-Jong made their push for gold at the world gymnastics championships here on Wednesday.

LONDON -- Pittsboro gymnast Bridget Sloan, despite a fall off the balance beam, ranks third in the all-around after today's third of five sessions in women's preliminaries at the World Championships.

British star Beth Tweddle squandered a medal chance as she fell from the uneven bars in qualifying at the World Gymnastics Championships.

Eds: APNewsNow. AP Photo LMD118, XAG103, LMD116 LONDON Deng Linlin, a member of China's gold medal team at the Beijing Olympics, tops the qualifying at the world gymnastics championships.

When Bridget Sloan's friends heard she was coming to London, one asked her to bring back pictures from a Chelsea game.

News of the day is that Russia's Ksenia Afanasyeva has withdrawn from next week's World Championships due to a back injury.

U.S. Champion Bridget Sloan will be in the hunt for the World all-around title in London.

It's the first World Championships of a new 4yr cycle. There will be some surprises.

China has promised to cooperate with an International Gymnastics Federation probe into the age of two Chinese medalists from the 2000 Sydney Olympics.