Overview
- The World Championships run August 20–24 at Arena Carioca in Rio’s Barra Olympic Park.
- Varfolomeev enters as a five-time defending world champion and top favorite after sweeping all five titles at the German Championships in Dresden.
- Having completed her Realschulabschluss, Varfolomeev says she is about 90 percent ready and welcomes the chance to focus fully on training.
- Team leader Isabell Sawade calls a repeat sweep of five world titles very unlikely, though she says it remains possible if Varfolomeev hits clean routines.
- Anastasia Simakova makes her Worlds debut, Margarita Kolosov travels as the alternate, and Germany’s group targets finals after a European bronze under the lower-scoring rules that now count fewer elements.