Their ribbon exercise used "Tango Jalousie", composed by Jacob Gade, for the music, while their mixed-apparatus one used the song "Campanas" by Víctor Bombi.

[3] Before the World Championships, they won gold in the Karlsruhe tournament (ahead of the USSR and Bulgaria) and three bronzes at the Gymnastic Masters in Stuttgart.

[4] On October 12 of that year, the Spanish group (consisting Gómez, Débora Alonso, Lorea Elso, Teresa Fuster, Montserrat Martín and Gemma Royo, with Marta Aberturas and Cristina Chapuli as the substitutes) won the gold medal in the all-around of the World Championship in Athens.

Bito Fuster was also injured, and the two of them were kept as the group subtitues while Alicia Martín, Cristina Martínez and Bárbara Plaza replaced them in the competing lineup.

In addition, on November 22 they won bronze in the 6 ribbons final and were 8th with 3 balls and 3 ropes[16] After this, Isabel retired from competition, as would the rest of the group that had been world champions in Athens the previous year.