[6] Oldest and youngest competitors Due to a dead spot on the floor in the last subdivision of qualifications that allowed a rotation of gymnasts to redo their floor routines, Bram Verhofstad of the Netherlands bumped out the original eighth-place qualifier Tomás González of Chile.

Oldest and youngest competitors Oldest and youngest competitors With the successful completion of the double-twisting straight Kovac (aka double-twisting Cassina or Bretschneider straight) in competition by Hidetaka Miyachi of Japan (despite a fall on a different element in his routine) during the horizontal bar individual event final, the skill—now officially called the Miyachi on the horizontal bar—has been automatically named after him, the only element currently in men's artistic gymnastics to be assigned the new and highest difficulty score of I (0.9).

Oldest and youngest competitors Great Britain's Alice Kinsella withdrew before the final due to an ankle injury sustained in qualifications and was replaced by first reserve Lee Eun-ju of South Korea.

Second-place qualifier Ragan Smith of the United States injured her ankle during warm-ups moments before the first event and withdrew.

Oldest and youngest competitors Pauline Schäfer won the first-ever World Championships balance beam gold medal for Germany.