World Championships

Liverpool 2022 (postponed from the Tokyo cycle). Antwerp 2023 — Biles returns with three more world titles. The artistic, rhythmic, and trampoline calendars resync after the Tokyo year.

The Biles era opens at Antwerp 2013. Six straight world all-around titles for Uchimura on the men's side; back-to-back-to-back AA Worlds for Biles on the women's. The rise of Asian MAG as a serious counter to Europe.

Perfect-10 era ends here. Aarhus 2006 is the first Worlds scored under FIG's open-ended Code of Points. 10.0 is no longer the ceiling. The conversation about difficulty re-anchors.

Indianapolis 1991 — Kim Zmeskal becomes the first American woman to win the all-around at Worlds. Pipeline starts producing the Magnificent Seven; American women arrive at the top.

Moscow 1981, Budapest 1983, Montreal 1985, Rotterdam 1987, Stuttgart 1989. Soviet WAG dominance peaks; East Germany's last great wave.

Three Worlds in this decade — Varna 1974, Strasbourg 1978, Fort Worth 1979. The Soviet machine builds. Romania starts arriving.