THE IMPECCABLE MACHINE

Having flown through the qualification round, 2011 and 2014 World champion Yang Song of China was the man to beat. Like a tumbling machine, Yang churned out flips and twists to dominate a final where no fewer than three World champions were present. Russia, which had edged China for the Men's Team title the day before, only managed to place one of its representatives, Timofei Podust, on the podium, between Yang and compatriot Zhang Kuo.

A SENSE OF DEJA VU

Her final pass, cut short, had cost her gold at the Worlds in Daytona Beach. A year later, Jia Fangfang wasn't about to make the same mistake again: China’s Tumbling star gave it her all to take back the World title, her third after winning in 2011 and 2013. This final had a whiff of deja vu, as just like 2013, Great Britain's Lucie Colebeck took silver, while Chen Lingxi, the other pillar of the Chinese women's team, won bronze. This time, however, Chen shared her medal with Anna Korobeinikova, the Russian doyenne who has four World titles all her own.

CHINESE WOMEN AND RUSSIAN MEN
REMAIN IN CONTROL

Carried by Tumbling virtuoso Jia Fangfang, the Chinese women continued to reign supreme in Women's Tumbling and also had the royal pleasure of receiving their gold medal from Prince Frederik of Denmark. The British women finished with silver, relegating Russia to third, its worst result in nearly two decades. On the men's side, however, Andrey Krylov, Tagir Murtazaev and Timofei Podust delivered a spectacular fireworks show that allowed the Russians to finish on top of the Chinese, their traditional rivals, as they had in 2013. The Americans rounded out the podium.

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