2022 Rhythmic Gymnastics World Championships

The 2022 Rhythmic Gymnastics World Championships were held from 14 to 18 September 2022 in Sofia, Bulgaria.

The competition was used to determine the first quotas given for the 2024 Summer Olympics. The three medalists in the individual and group all-around won quotas for their countries.

Notable absences included all Russian and Belarusian gymnasts, who were not allowed to compete after the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine. Both countries were traditionally dominant in rhythmic gymnastics; a Russian gymnast had won every World all-around title since 2007, when Ukrainian Anna Bessonova won. In addition, two favorites for the individual event, the European champion, Daria Atamanov, and the European silver medalist, Boryana Kaleyn, both withdrew shortly before the event for health reasons. Atamanov broke her leg performing a jump during her warm-up a few minutes before she was to compete, while Kaleyn was hospitalized with a high fever.

In part due to the absence of Russian and Belarusian gymnasts, several gymnasts won the first World medals for their countries at the competition. In the individual event, victor Sofia Raffaeli from Italy became the first Italian individual gymnast to win an all-around medal at the World Championships as well as the first Italian all-around champion. Darja Varfolomeev, the silver medalist, was the first German gymnast to win an all-around medal since the reunification of Germany; in the event finals, she won the first gold medal by a German gymnast. Bronze medalist Stiliana Nikolova was the first Bulgarian individual to win an all-around medal in over twenty years.

Ekaterina Vedeneeva won Slovenia's first World medal, a bronze in the ribbon final. Marina Malpica was the first Mexican gymnast to compete in the all-around final. In the group event, the Israeli group won their country's first group medal with silver in the all-around, and the Azerbaijani group also won their country's first World group medal, a bronze in the mixed apparatus event.

Neviana Vladinova was the ambassador for the event.