Cheered on by an enthusiastic home crowd at the NIS, a venue built for the 2008 Olympic Games, the Chinese squad claimed four gold and four silver medals from a total of eight events — all-around for both individuals and groups, four individual and two group apparatuses — to top the eventual medal table after three days of competition.
The discipline's global powerhouse Russia split its haul of golds with the host by winning all four individual apparatus titles, cementing its world-class status going into the new Olympic cycle for the 2028 Los Angeles Games.
After opening the Beijing showpiece with two all-around titles on Saturday, the reshuffled Chinese squad has proved it remains a force to be reckoned with collectively by winning two more group titles from the five-balls and three-hoops-and-two-clubs events on Sunday.
