2015 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships

2015 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships
The SSE Hydro, where the competition took place
Venue	The SSE Hydro
Location	Glasgow, United Kingdom
Start date	23 October 2015
End date	1 November 2015
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The 2015 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships was held in Glasgow, United Kingdom at The SSE Hydro from 23 October – 1 November 2015. The competition serves as a qualification for the 2016 Summer Olympics. This was the first time that Scotland hosted the World Artistic Gymnastics Championships.

Japan won the men's team all-around competition for the first time since 1978, and the United States won the women's team all-around title for the third straight time. In the individual all-around competitions, Kōhei Uchimura and Simone Biles won their sixth and third successive title, respectively. Qualifying in thirteenth place, team Romania failed to automatically qualify to the Olympic Games for the first time since 1966.

On December 4, 2015, British Gymnastics announced that the event had been named "Sporting Event of the Year" by The Sunday Mail.

The competition was held in The SSE Hydro, which opened in 2013. This arena hosted the Gymnastics events at the 2014 Commonwealth Games.

As is traditional for any World Championships prior to the Olympic year, the Championships served as the first of two qualification rounds for artistic gymnasts to the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. In the qualification round of Worlds, the top 8 teams in both MAG and WAG competitions receive an automatic qualification berth to the Games. Teams placed 9-16th at the World Championships will be invited to the 2016 Olympic Test Event in Rio and the top 4 teams from that event will make up the 12 teams at the Olympics.