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 Men Vitaly Scherbo Alexei Voropaev Grigory Misutin Pae Gil-Su Donghua Li Alexei Nemov Yuri Chechi Yordan Yovchev Szilveszter Csollány none awarded Alexei Nemov Yeo Hong-Chul Andrea Massucchi none awarded Rustam Sharipov Alexei Nemov Vitaly Scherbo none awarded Jesús Carballo Krasimir Dunev Vitaly Scherbo Women Gina Gogean Simona Amânar Annia Portuondo Svetlana Khorkina Elena Piskun none awarded Isabelle Severino Dina Kochetkova Alexandra Marinescu Dominique Dawes Liu Xuan Kui Yuanyuan Gina Gogean none awarded Lavinia Miloșovici Liubov Sheremeta

Medal table Overall

Men

Women

Men Floor exercise Rank Gymnast Total 9.787 9.700 9.625 4 9.562 5 9.550 5 9.525 7 9.450 8 9.125 9 9.100

Pommel horse Rank Gymnast Total 9.825 9.812 9.787 4 9.762 5 9.725 6 9.700 7 9.625 8 8.200

Rings Rank Gymnast Total 9.825 9.737 9.737 4 9.712 5 9.675 5 9.675 7 9.637 7 9.637 9 9.575

Vault Rank Gymnast Total 9.756 9.743 9.743 4 9.643 4 9.643 6 9.556 7 9.437 8 9.431 9 9.400 10 9.343

Parallel bars Rank Gymnast Total 9.750 9.737 9.737 4 9.725 4 9.725 6 9.650 7 9.625 8 9.556

Horizontal bar Rank Gymnast Total 9.800 9.775 9.762 4 9.750 5 9.712 6 9.475 7 9.375 8 8.075

Women Vault Rank Gymnast Total 9.800 9.787 9.756 4 9.668 5 9.637 6 9.537 7 9.518 8 9.456

Uneven bars Rank Gymnast Total 9.787 9.787 9.775 4 9.750 4 9.750 6 9.725 6 9.725 8 9.712 9 9.700 10 9.687 11 8.787

Balance beam Rank Gymnast Total 9.887 9.812 9.800 9.800 5 9.675 6 9.637 7 9.187 8 9.075

Floor exercise Rank Gymnast Total 9.850 9.850 9.800 9.800 5 9.775 5 9.775 7 9.712 8 9.637

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