The 2010 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships was held at the Rotterdam Ahoy indoor sporting arena in the Netherlands from 16 to 24 October 2010.

In this year's championships, there was a total of 73 participating federations with 615 gymnasts (343 men and 272 women).

Great Britain came first in floor and pommel but were only ninth and tenth in parallel bars and rings respectively.

[5] After qualifying in last place, France improved to finish fifth in the final, while Great Britain regressed from fourth to seventh.

Steven Legendre of the US, Kenya Kobayashi of Japan and Kristian Thomas of Great Britain ended 15th, 16th and 17th respectively, but were their nation's third best and did not progress to the final.

Ruslan Paneleymonov (Britain, 19th) and Andrey Cherkasov (Russia, 21st) were the others affected by this policy.

[8] Oldest and youngest competitors As with the men, the top three scores from each country for each apparatus was counted towards the total.

Mattie Larson (USA, 11th), Ksenia Afanasyeva (Russia, 17th) and Emily Little (Australia, 23rd) were the others in the top 24 to be excluded from the final.

Aly Raisman qualified third, but she fell in the uneven bars in the final, and came equal last in that apparatus to end up 13th overall.

Her 2nd vault had originally had a 6.1 start value, but then she was penalized once again for piking her form and landing out of bounds and was brought down to a 5.7.

Defending champion Beth Tweddle of Great Britain failed to qualify, she was a reserve for the final.

Men's all-around champion Kōhei Uchimura was involved in all of Japan's four medals, one of them a silver in the teams event.