[1][2] The competition was held from 23 October – 1 November 2015 at The SSE Hydro in Glasgow, United Kingdom, and is the first time that Scotland hosted the event.

In the individual all-around competitions, Kōhei Uchimura and Simone Biles won their sixth and third successive title, respectively.

Oldest and youngest competitors This was the first four-way tie in history for gold at a World Artistic Gymnastics Championships, but this is unlikely to happen again because the World Championships has instituted a tie-breaking procedure since then similar to the Olympics to prevent a situation like this from happening again.

With her ninth career world championships gold medal, she tied the record held by Larisa Latynina, Gina Gogean, and Svetlana Khorkina.

Sanne Wevers of the Netherlands and Pauline Schäfer of Germany won the first medals for their countries on the balance beam.