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.[1]
| 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 | [2] |