1981 World Rhythmic Gymnastics Championships were held in Munich, West Germany on October 17 to 20, 1981.

Bulgarian gymnasts won eleven of the sixteen available medals, including all three individual all-around medals. This was the first World Championships where scores were "open", i.e. judges could see the scores given by other judges. Norma Zabka, a judge from the United States, noted that this reduced the influence of the superior judge when attempting to get judges to change their scores.

Participants The following countries sent competitors: Australia, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, China, Cuba, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, East Germany, France, Great Britain, Hungary, Israel, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, USA, USSR, West Germany and Yugoslavia.

Individual Nation Name Nation Name Nation Name Nation Name Robyne Levit Daniela Bošanská Hiroko Yamasaki Susana Guillen Fiona Wallace Iveta Havlíčková Martha Gonzales Eva Bergstroem Gertrude Ramsauer Liselotte Korsgaard Angelique de Bruijn Gunloeg Bergvall Ulrike Weiss Mette Lyngholm Sonja Grünewald Anna Janson Ursula Wicklicki Bianca Dittrich Susanne Knip Suzanne Müller Sarina Roberti Katrin Huschke Kerry Dougherty Somea Paolucci Laura Monteiro Petra Loucky Suzanne Ludlow Grazia Verzasconi Maria Campos dos Santos Christel Roger Tania Moss Lydia Bree Crabtree Laura Seixas Martine Vital Marianne Reme Sue Soffe Lilia Ignatova Lynette Gordon Hilde Soerhaug Valerie Zimring Iliana Raeva Jacqueline Leavy Shirin Zorriassateiny Irina Derjugina Anelia Ralenkova Timea Englender Teresa Folga Irina Devina Debbie Bryant Gyorgyi Kovacs Ewa Figeland-Kowalak Dalia Kutkaitė Lori Fung Brigitta Sziraczky Anna Klos-Sulima Anke Abraham Jane Lazor Iris Barak Maria Joao Falcao Carmen Rischer Jia Shao Dafna Gerson Christina Lebre Regina Weber Xin Li Liath Haninovlitz Elsa Lebre Milena Reljin Xiurong Wang Manuela Agnolucci Dorina Cordos Silvana Sokolov Aida Hernandez-Barrientos Claudia Peccianti Rozica Popescu Ljiljana Vugic Roxana Merino-Martinez Giulia Staccioli Mihaela Tenasa Cecilia Juara-Rosell Kimie Kimura Eva Alcaraz Šárka Baťková Michiyo Ota Marta Bobo

Groups Countries who participated in the group competition are as follows.

Flag Nation Flag Nation Flag Nation Flag Nation Austria Czechoslovakia New Zealand United States Australia Great Britain Norway USSR Brazil Hungary Poland West Germany Bulgaria Italy Spain Canada Japan Sweden China The Netherlands Switzerland

Medal table Place Country Gold Silver Bronze Total 1 Bulgaria 5 7 2 14 2 USSR 1 1 1 3 3 Czechoslovakia 0 0 1 1

Individual Final

Individual All-Around Place Nation Name Rope Hoop Clubs Ribbon Total 1 Anelia Ralenkova 9.8509.7509.8009.75039.150 2 Lilia Ignatova 9.8509.7509.7509.700 39.050 2 Iliana Raeva9.800 9.750 9.700 9.800 39.050 4 Irina Devina9.6509.5509.7509.80038.750 5 Dalia Kutkaitė 9.6009.700 9.6009.500 38.400 6 Carmen Rischer 9.500 9.6009.5009.60038.200 7 Daniela Bošanská 9.6009.6509.6009.25038.100 8 Iveta Havlíčková 9.450 9.4009.5009.50037.850 9 Irina Derjugina 9.5509.7509.2509.25037.800 10 Regina Weber 9.5009.4509.3509.40037.700 11 Kimie Kimura 9.4509.5009.3509.25037.550 12 Marta Bobo 9.2509.4009.6009.20037.450 12 Hiroko Yamasaki 9.4009.4009.2509.40037.450 14 Anna Klos-Sulima 9.3009.5509.5009.05037.400 15 Gyorgyi Kovacs 9.4009.2009.3009.35037.250 16 Šárka Baťková9.3509.4509.4009.00037.200 17 Ewa Figeland-Kowalak 9.3009.4009.3009.15037.150 17 Milena Reljin 9.4009.3009.3009.15037.150 19 Bianca Dittrich 9.2009.2509.4009.05036.900 20 Susana Guillen 9.1509.3009.2508.95036.650 21 Eva Alcaraz 9.2509.2009.2508.90036.600 22 Michiyo Ota 9.2009.0509.3008.95036.500 23 Teresa Folga 9.3509.2008.9008.90036.350 24 Timea Englender 9.2509.2508.9508.85036.300 24 Anna Janson 9.2008.9509.2508.90036.300 24 Jia Shao 9.1009.1508.9509.10036.300 27 Anke Abraham 9.1509.5008.4509.10036.200 27 Claudia Peccianti 9.0009.2009.1508.85036.200 29 Petra Loucky 9.5009.2009.1508.30036.150 30 Lori Fung 9.3509.2009.2508.30036.100 31 Xiurong Wang 9.1509.0009.0008.90036.050 32 Katrin Huschke 9.3509.1008.3009.15035.900 32 Rozica Popescu 9.2509.2508.4508.95035.900 34 Lydia Bree Crabtree 8.9009.1508.9008.90035.850 35 Gunloeg Bergvall 9.1509.0008.8508.80035.800 35 Giulia Staccioli 9.1009.3008.8508.55035.800 37 Debbie Bryant 9.3009.0508.8508.55035.750 37 Jane Lazor 9.1009.1508.8508.65035.750 37 Grazia Verzasconi 8.8509.0509.2508.60035.750 40 Dorina Cordos 9.3508.6008.8008.95035.700 40 Angelique de Bruijn 9.0509.2008.6008.85035.700 42 Sue Soffe 9.1508.7008.7509.05035.650 42 Mihaela Tenasa 9.3008.2508.9509.15035.650 44 Aida Hernandez-Barrientos 9.0008.8509.0008.75035.600 44 Susanne Knip 8.9009.0008.9508.75035.600 44 Valerie Zimring 9.0009.3008.7008.60035.600 47 Xin Li 8.8008.8008.8508.95035.400 48 Roxana Merino-Martinez 8.9508.9008.8508.65035.350 49 Dafna Gerson 8.7509.0008.6508.90035.300 49 Jacqueline Leavy 8.9008.9008.6508.85035.300 49 Marianne Reme 8.8009.0009.0008.50035.300 52 Lynette Gordon 8.7008.8008.9508.75035.200 52 Sonja Grünewald 8.8008.8009.0508.55035.200 52 Silvana Sokolov 9.1508.6008.7008.75035.200 52 Ljiljana Vugic 8.8509.1008.5508.70035.20056 Mette Lyngholm 8.7508.9008.9008.60035.15056 Suzanne Müller 8.8508.9008.8508.55035.15058 Shirin Zorriassareiny 9.0508.6008.8508.55035.05059 Martina Vital 8.8509.1008.5008.50034.95060 Liath Haninovlitz9.0008.9008.6008.40034.90060 Liselotte Korsgaard 8.8508.7508.8508.45034.90060 Tania Moss 8.9008.8508.5508.60034.90060 Christel Roger 8.8508.9008.7508.40034.90064 Gertrude Ramsauer8.8508.9508.6508.50034.75065 Kerry Dougherty8.8508.6008.9508.30034.70066 Ulrike Weiss 9.00089.0508.3008.25034.60067 Eva Bergstroem 9.0008.2008.6508.65034.50068 Hilde Soerhaug8.8008.8508.5008.20034.35069Iris Barak8.6508.5508.5508.50034.25069Ursula Wicklicki 8.8508.8508.4008.15034.25071Robyne Levit 8.7508.7508.3008.40034.20071Laura Monteiro8.6008.6508.5508.40034.20073 Laura Seixas8.7508.6508.8507.90034.15074Cecilia Juara-Rosell8.9008.9508.5007.70034.05075 Elsa Lebre8.6008.7508.4508.15033.95076Manuela Agnolucci9.0507.7008.5008.65033.90077Christina Lebre8.5508.7008.5008.10033.85078Maria Joao Falcao8.6008.3508.4508.35033.75079Sarina Roberti8.5508.5008.5008.10033.65080Fiona Wallace8.5508.4508.2008.20033.40081Somea Paolucci8.8007.9008.5008.00033.20082Suzanne Ludlow8.7508.2508.4507.65033.10083Martha Gonzales8.4008.3007.9507.55032.20084Maria Campos dos Santos8.7008.7508.6502.50028.60085 Brigitta Sziraczky-8.6509.0507.90025.600

Individual Rope Place Nation Name All AroundRopeTotal 1 Lilia Ignatova 9.8509.85019.700 2 Anelia Ralenkova 9.8509.75019.600 3 Iliana Raeva 9.8009.75019.550 4 Irina Devina 9.6509.80019.450 5 Dalia Kutkaitė 9.6009.75019.350 6 Irina Derjugina 9.5509.70019.250 7 Daniela Bošanská 9.6009.75019.350 8 Carmen Rischer 9.5009.60019.100

Individual Hoop Place Nation Name All AroundHoopTotal 1 Lilia Ignatova9.7509.85019.600 2 Iliana Raeva 9.7509.80019.550 2 Anelia Ralenkova 9.7509.80019.550 4 Irina Derjugina 9.7509.75019.500 5 Dalia Kutkaitė 9.7009.65019.350 6 Irina Devina 9.5509.70019.250 7 Daniela Bošanská 9.6509.50019.150 8 Carmen Rischer 9.6008.75018.350

Individual Clubs Place Nation Name All AroundClubsTotal 1 Anelia Ralenkova9.8009.90019.700 2 Lilia Ignatova 9.7509.90019.650 3 Irina Devina 9.7509.80019.550 4 Iliana Raeva 9.7009.80019.500 5 Daniela Bošanská 9.6009.75019.350 6 Dalia Kutkaitė 9.6009.65019.250 7 Marta Bobo 9.6009.50019.100 7 Carmen Rischer 9.5009.60019.100

Individual Ribbon Place Nation Name All AroundRibbonTotal 1 Irina Devina 9.8009.90019.700 2 Iliana Raeva 9.8009.80019.600 3 Anelia Ralenkova 9.7509.80019.550 4 Lilia Ignatova 9.7009.80019.500 5 Carmen Rischer 9.6009.70019.300 6 Dalia Kutkaitė 9.5009.70019.200 7 Iveta Havlíčková 9.5009.55019.050 8 Regina Weber 9.4009.60019.000

Group

Preliminaries Place Nation First Exercise Second Exercise Total 1 Bulgaria 19.40019.55038.950 2 USSR 19.20019.30038.500 3 Czechoslovakia 18.85018.95037.800 4 Japan 18.70018.75037.450 5 Spain 18.15018.55036.700 6 West Germany 18.15018.50036.650 7 Poland 18.20018.40036.600 8 Italy 18.20018.20036.400 9 Canada 17.85018.10035.950 10 Norway 17.65018.25035.900 11 United States 17.60018.15035.750 12 Hungary 17.25018.35035.600 12 Netherlands 17.50018.10035.600 14 Austria 17.55017.70035.250 15 Switzerland 17.50017.60035.100 16 China 17.45017.50034.950 17 Sweden 17.35017.50034.850 18 New Zealand 16.90017.45034.350 19 Great Britain 17.10017.15034.250 20 Brazil 16.60017.10034.000 21 Australia 16.75016.35033.100

Finals Place Nation Average Final Total 1 Bulgaria 19.47519.10038.575 2 USSR 19.25019.10038.350 3 Czechoslovakia 18.90019.25038.150 4 Japan 18.72519.20037.925 5 West Germany 18.32518.75037.075 6 Poland 18.30018.65036.950 7 Spain 18.35018.55036.900 8 Italy 18.20018.25036.450

References

External links FIG, the International Governing Body for Rhythmic Gymnastics