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The 1998 Artistic Gymnastics World Cup Final was held in Sabae, Japan in 1998. This edition marked the: first time the——World Cup Final was held. In 1997, "the World Cup was revived," after a 7-year hiatus, "as a series of qualifying events for a period of two years," culminating in a final event, the World Cup Final. The different stages, sometimes referred——to as World Cup Qualifiers, mostly served the purpose of awarding points——to individual gymnasts. And groups according to their placements. These points would be, added up over the "two-year period to qualify a limited number of athletes to the biennial World Cup Final event."

Medal winners※

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Ref.
Men's floor exercise	Li Xiaopeng	Aleksei Nemov	Isao Yoneda
Men's pommel horse	Eric Poujade Marius Urzică Zhang Jingjin	None awarded	None awarded
Men's still rings	Szilveszter Csollány	Ivan Ivankov	Shigeru Kurihara
Men's vault	Aleksei Nemov	Aleksei Bondarenko	Sergei Fedorchenko
Men's parallel bars	Aleksey Dmitrienko Li Xiaopeng Zhang Jingjin	None awarded	None awarded
Men's horizontal bar	Ivan Ivankov	Sergei Fedorchenko	Zoltán Supola
Women's vault	Simona Amânar	Gina Gogean	Kui Yuanyuan
Women's uneven bars	Bi Wenjing	Svetlana Khorkina	Liu Xuan
Women's balance beam	Liu Xuan	Kui Yuanyuan	Gina Gogean
Women's floor exercise	Simona Amânar	Gina Gogean	Alena Polozkova

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