2006 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships
Rank Gymnast A Score B Score Total
1 Xiao Qin ( CHN ) 6.3 9.725 16.025
2 Prashanth Sellathurai ( AUS ) 6.4 9.350 15.750
3 Alexander Artemev ( USA ) 5.9 9.600 15.500
4 Nikolai Kryukov ( RUS ) 6.1 9.350 15.450
5 Feng Jing ( CHN ) 6.1 9.275 15.375
6 Flavius Koczi ( ROU ) 6.2 9.150 15.350
7 Hiroyuki Tomita ( JPN ) 5.9 9.325 15.225
8 Robert Seligman ( CRO ) 6.2 8.550 14.750
Men -- Pommel Horse
39th World Artistic Gymnastics Championships were held in Aarhus, Denmark from October 13 to October 21, 2006, in NRGi Arena. The International Gymnastics Federation, which celebrated the 125th anniversary of its foundation in 2006, introduced the new Code of Points into the World Championships for the first time. The new open-ended code consists of separate scores for the difficulty and execution of an exercise, removing the perfect 10 as the standard. 2006 brought the first ever gold medal to the Italian women's program, for Vanessa Ferrari in the individual all-around.