1. The competition was held in Aarhus, Denmark; fifteen years later the World Championships were supposed to go back to Denmark, this time in the city of Copenhaguen however Denmark withdrew from hosting the event presumably due to economic pressure generated by the pandemic.
2.First World Championships to be held under the open ended code with a D and E score. Also the deduction for a fall was raised from 0.5 to a 0.800
3. Chellsie Memmel, the defending all-around champion from the 2005 Worlds, qualified 1st to the all-around final. However, she fell from bars during the team competition and torn her labrum, the injury forced her to withdraw from the remainder of the competition.
4.Chellsie Memmel was replaced by Ashley Priess who finished 10th all-around after a fall on Floor, by Jana Bieger in the bars final where she finished 5th and by Natasha Kelley in the Floor final where she finished 7th.
5.To make matters worse for the U.S., Anastasia “Nastia” Liukin, was dealing with an ankle injury and limited to only bars. She finished second on the apparatus event final behind Beth Tweddle.
6.Elizabeth “Beth” Tweddle, who was 21 at the time, became the first ever British World Champion with her gold on bars. She also finished 4th on Floor.
7.Three out of the five team U.S. members were coached by a parent. Chellsie Memmel by her father Andy Memmel, Jana Bieger by her mother Andrea Bieger and Anastasia Liukin by her father Valeri Liukin.
8.The United States won only silver medals: team, all-around and Floor (Jana Bieger), bars (Anastasia Liukin), vault (Alicia Sacramone)
9. Vanessa Ferrari won a controverted all-around gold despite falling from the beam on her backhandspring into full twist. However, she is not the only World All-Around Champion to win with a fall, Simone Biles won the World All-Around title in 2018 despite falling twice.
10. China won its first and only World Team Title to date.
11. Cheng Fei was the defending vault champion from 2005; she retained her title. She also placed first on Floor.
12. Oksana Chusovitina’s first World Championships representing Germany, she won bronze on vault. At age 31, she also placed 9th in the all-around.
13. Elyse Hopfner-Hibbs became Canada’s first ever World medallist with her bronze on beam.
14.Irina Krasnianska became Ukraine’s last ever World Champion with her gold on beam.
15. Lais Souza’s best competition she was 4th on vault and 8th on Floor. Eight years later, in January of 2014, she would be left paralyzed after a skiing accident.
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