World Championships in Rhythmic Gymnastics 1963

The 1st World Championships of Rhythmic Gymnastics were held on December 7th and 8th, 1963 in the Hungarian capital Budapest . At the "I. International Competitions in Artistic Gymnastics ", organized by the Fédération Internationale de Gymnastique (FIG) and attended by 1,300 spectators, 28 gymnasts from ten nations took part.

Participants

Rosa Ascaso  Elwira Awerkowitsch  Wioletta Baptishta  Isabel Benavente  Jana Bérová  Irene Binder ( Science Jena )  Daniela Diaconescu

Ileana Iosif  Rauni Koskinen  Tatiana Kravchenko  Tuula Launala  Ute Lehmann ( SC DHfK Leipzig )  Lismanova  Hana Machatová-Bogušovská

Novičić  Maria Paszynin  Mária Patocska  Tatjana Radovanović  Lyudmila Savinkova  Rosa Jiménez  Mihaela Solomonov

Dagmar Šťastná  Orsolya Szabó  Krystyna Szczepańska  Maya Tónay  Yulia Trashlieva  Czesława Walenciej  Renate Walkstein ( SC DHfK Leipzig )

Results

Individual all-around

rank	Athlete	without device	with device	total
1	Lyudmila Savinkova	9.633	9,600	19.233
2	Tatiana Kravchenko	9,600	9,566	19,166
3	Yulia Trashlieva	9,400	9.533	18,933
4th	Elwira Awerkowitsch	9.433	9.266	18,699
	Hana Machatová-Bogušovská	9.333	9,366
6th	Jana Bérová	9.266	9,300	18,566
	Renate Walkstein	9,300	9.266
8th	Mária Patocska	9.266	9.266	18,532
9	Rauni Koskinen	9,300	9,200	18,500
10	Ute Lehmann	9,300	9,066	18,366
	Dagmar Šťastná	9,100	9.266
12	Irene Binder	9.133	9,200	18,333

Exercise without a handheld device

rank	Athlete	without device
1	Lyudmila Savinkova	9.633
2	Tatiana Kravchenko	9,600
3	Elwira Awerkowitsch	9.433
4th	Yulia Trashlieva	9,400
5	Lismanova	9.333
	Hana Machatová-Bogušovská
7th	Rauni Koskinen	9,300
	Ute Lehmann
	Renate Walkstein
10	Jana Bérová	9.266
	Mária Patocska
15th	Irene Binder	9.133

Exercise with handheld device

rank	Athlete	with device
1	Lyudmila Savinkova	9,600
2	Tatiana Kravchenko	9,566
3	Yulia Trashlieva	9.533
4th	Hana Machatová-Bogušovská	9,366
5	Jana Bérová	9,300
6th	Elwira Awerkowitsch	9.266
	Mária Patocska
	Dagmar Šťastná
	Renate Walkstein
10	Irene Binder	9,200
	Rauni Koskinen
	Ileana Iosif
16	Ute Lehmann	9,066

Medal table

rank	nation	gold	silver	bronze	total
1	Soviet Union	3	3	1	7th
2	Bulgaria	0	0	2	2

Web links

• Alexander Kochann: 1st World Championships from 7.-8. December 1963 in Budapest, Hungary , in: rsg.net (March 18, 1999), accessed January 18, 2015.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Reigen der Anmut , in: Neue Zeit from December 6, 1963, p. 5; Where Grace celebrates triumphs , in: Berliner Zeitung of December 8, 1963, p. 4; Competitions of graceful girls , in: Neue Zeit of December 10, 1963, p. 8.