1996 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships

The 1996 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships were held in San Juan, Puerto Rico, from 16 to 20 April 1996.

The team and all-around events were not contested at the 1996 Artistic Gymnastics World Championships. The format was similar to that of the 1992 and 2002 Worlds, with medals being awarded for the individual WAG and MAG apparatus. There were three rounds of competition: the preliminary round open to everyone; the semi-finals open to the top sixteen qualifiers; and the finals for the top eight gymnasts. Until 2021, the 1996 Artistic Gymnastics World Championships were also the last to be held in the same year as a Summer Olympics.

Medalists

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men
Floor Template:DetailsLink	Template:Flagicon Vitaly Scherbo	Template:Flagicon Alexei Voropaev	Template:Flagicon Grigory Misutin
Pommel horse Template:DetailsLink	Template:Flagicon Pae Gil-Su	Template:Flagicon Donghua Li	Template:Flagicon Alexei Nemov
Rings Template:DetailsLink	Template:Flagicon Yuri Chechi	Template:Flagicon Yordan Yovchev Template:Flagicon Szilveszter Csollány	none awarded
Vault Template:DetailsLink	Template:Flagicon Alexei Nemov	Template:Flagicon Yeo Hong-Chul Template:Flagicon Andrea Massucchi	none awarded
Parallel Bars Template:DetailsLink	Template:Flagicon Rustam Sharipov	Template:Flagicon Alexei Nemov Template:Flagicon Vitaly Scherbo	none awarded
Horizontal bar Template:DetailsLink	Template:Flagicon Jesús Carballo	Template:Flagicon Krasimir Dunev	Template:Flagicon Vitaly Scherbo
Women
Vault Template:DetailsLink	Template:Flagicon Gina Gogean	Template:Flagicon Simona Amânar	Template:Flagicon Annia Portuondo
Uneven bars Template:DetailsLink	Template:Flagicon Svetlana Khorkina Template:Flagicon Elena Piskun	none awarded	Template:Flagicon Isabelle Severino
Balance beam Template:DetailsLink	Template:Flagicon Dina Kochetkova	Template:Flagicon Alexandra Marinescu	Template:Flagicon Dominique Dawes Template:Flagicon Liu Xuan
Floor Template:DetailsLink	Template:Flagicon Kui Yuanyuan Template:Flagicon Gina Gogean	none awarded	Template:Flagicon Lavinia Miloșovici Template:Flagicon Liubov Sheremeta

Men

Floor exercise

Rank	Gymnast	Total
	Template:Flagathlete	9.787
	Template:Flagathlete	9.700
	Template:Flagathlete	9.625
4	Template:Flagathlete	9.562
5	Template:Flagathlete	9.550
5	Template:Flagathlete	9.525
7	Template:Flagathlete	9.450
8	Template:Flagathlete	9.125

Pommel horse

Rank	Gymnast	Total
	Template:Flagathlete	9.825
	Template:Flagathlete	9.812
	Template:Flagathlete	9.787
4	Template:Flagathlete	9.762
5	Template:Flagathlete	9.725
6	Template:Flagathlete	9.700
7	Template:Flagathlete	9.625
8	Template:Flagathlete	8.200

Still rings

Rank	Gymnast	Total
	Template:Flagathlete	9.825
	Template:Flagathlete	9.737
	Template:Flagathlete	9.737
4	Template:Flagathlete	9.712
5	Template:Flagathlete	9.675
5	Template:Flagathlete	9.675
7	Template:Flagathlete	9.637
7	Template:Flagathlete	9.637

Vault

Rank	Gymnast	Total
	Template:Flagathlete	9.756
	Template:Flagathlete	9.743
	Template:Flagathlete	9.743
4	Template:Flagathlete	9.643
4	Template:Flagathlete	9.643
6	Template:Flagathlete	9.556
7	Template:Flagathlete	9.437
8	Template:Flagathlete	9.431
9	Template:Flagathlete	9.400

Parallel bars

Rank	Gymnast	Total
	Template:Flagathlete	9.750
	Template:Flagathlete	9.737
	Template:Flagathlete	9.737
4	Template:Flagathlete	9.725
4	Template:Flagathlete	9.725
6	Template:Flagathlete	9.650
7	Template:Flagathlete	9.625
8	Template:Flagathlete	9.587

Horizontal bar

Rank	Gymnast	Total
	Template:Flagathlete	9.800
	Template:Flagathlete	9.775
	Template:Flagathlete	9.762
4	Template:Flagathlete	9.750
5	Template:Flagathlete	9.712
6	Template:Flagathlete	9.475
7	Template:Flagathlete	9.375
8	Template:Flagathlete	8.075

Women

Vault

Rank	Gymnast	Total
	Template:Flagathlete	9.800
	Template:Flagathlete	9.787
	Template:Flagathlete	9.756
4	Template:Flagathlete	9.668
5	Template:Flagathlete	9.637
6	Template:Flagathlete	9.537
7	Template:Flagathlete	9.518
8	Template:Flagathlete	9.456

Uneven bars

Rank	Gymnast	Total
	Template:Flagathlete	9.787
	Template:Flagathlete	9.787
	Template:Flagathlete	9.775
4	Template:Flagathlete	9.750
4	Template:Flagathlete	9.750
6	Template:Flagathlete	9.725
6	Template:Flagathlete	9.725
8	Template:Flagathlete	9.712
9	Template:Flagathlete	9.700
10	Template:Flagathlete	9.687
11	Template:Flagathlete	8.787

Balance beam

Rank	Gymnast	Total
	Template:Flagathlete	9.887
	Template:Flagathlete	9.812
	Template:Flagathlete	9.800
	Template:Flagathlete	9.800
5	Template:Flagathlete	9.675
6	Template:Flagathlete	9.637
7	Template:Flagathlete	9.187
8	Template:Flagathlete	9.075

Floor exercise

Rank	Gymnast	Total
	Template:Flagathlete	9.850
	Template:Flagathlete	9.850
	Template:Flagathlete	9.800
	Template:Flagathlete	9.800
5	Template:Flagathlete	9.775
5	Template:Flagathlete	9.775
7	Template:Flagathlete	9.712
8	Template:Flagathlete	9.637