Coach Peggy Liddick says her Australian women's gymnastics team will be in there fighting for a medal at the London Olympics despite disappointment in the world championships final.

Australia finished eighth in Tokyo on Tuesday night, having already secured their place at the 2012 Games after qualifying for the final in fifth place earlier this week.

Liddick had been hopeful they could hang onto that ranking but a difficult preparation which included an ankle injury for golden girl Lauren Mitchell meant they finished bottom of the final eight.

"We can fight for that (Olympic) bronze medal," an upbeat Liddick told AAP.

"I really think we can get our difficulty up a little bit but not enough to beat USA and Russia.

"The bronze medal's pretty open and that was obvious tonight."

"We're not going to sit back and just be happy with sixth or eighth now, we've got some plans."

The US won the teams title with 179.411 points ahead of Russia (175.329) and Olympic champions China (172.820).

Australia finished with 166.739 points, also trailing Romania, Great Britain, Germany and Japan.

Liddick said the showing was not unexpected.

"I knew sometime the lack of preparation was going to show through, luck only can carry you so far," she said.

"That's all it was really. It was not a lack of effort from the girls.

"We went into this and we said, `listen, the fact that we are in the teams final, we are going to celebrate it and we're just going to go out and do what we can do'.

"We're still going to the Olympics and there's nothing can change that."

David Beniuk
AAP