Spain at the World Artistic Gymnastics Championships explained

At the 1996 World Championships, held in San Juan, Puerto Rico, Jesús Carballo won Spain its first medal at the World Championships, a gold on horizontal bar.^[1] At the 2002 World Championships Elena Gómez became the first female Spanish gymnast to win a World Championships medal, winning gold on floor exercise.^[2] At that same World Championships Gervasio Deferr had initially won the silver medal on men's floor exercise; however he was stripped of the medal the following year after testing positive for marijuana.^[3]

Medalists

Notes and References

1. Web site: Jesús Carballo Martínez: «Llevo siete operaciones en una rodilla». es. Jesús Carballo Martínez: «I have had seven operations on my knee». La Voz de Galicia. May 13, 2019.
2. Web site: Veinte años del oro mundial de Elena Gómez. Twenty years of Elena Gómez's world gold. es. November 24, 2022. Mundo Deportivo.
3. Web site: Gervasio Deferr pierde la medalla de plata del Mundial por dopaje. 31 July 2003. 13 November 2013. https://web.archive.org/web/20131113023029/http://www.cadenaser.com/deportes/articulo/gervasio-deferr-pierde-medalla-plata-mundial-dopaje/csrcsrpor/20030731csrcsrdep_4/Tes/?print=1. dead.