NEW ORLEANS – Simply hours after the conclusion of males’s competitors on the 2025 Xfinity U.S. Gymnastics Championships, USA Gymnastics introduced the 5 males that may be a part of nationwide champion Asher Hong on the workforce for the 2025 World Inventive Gymnastics Championships, set for October 19-25 in Jakarta, Indonesia.
The U.S. males’s world workforce is:
- Brandon Dang (Illinois)
- Asher Hong (Stanford)
- Patrick Hoopes (Air Pressure)
- Brody Malone (EVO)
- Kameron Nelson (Ohio State)
- Donnell Whittenburg (EVO)
- Non-traveling alternate: Taylor Burkhart (Stanford)
The remainder of the workforce apart from Hong was decided by discretionary choice.
Hong hopes to compete all-around in Jakarta after profitable all-around, flooring, rings, and vault at championships.
“I believe the plan is to do all-around,” Hong stated after his win. “That was type of the aim right here – to make use of this as a stepping stone for Worlds.”
Dang and Hoopes are pommel horse specialists who’ve had success domestically and internationally this yr, exhibiting sufficient consistency that it warranted placing each of them on the six-man workforce.
Malone making the workforce didn’t appear to be a certain factor after he fell a number of occasions on day one on excessive bar, the place he owns the 2022 world title. However on day two he hit a 6.5 D-score routine to go 16.251 on the occasion, together with 1.051 in bonus. He additionally received parallel bars.
Nelson and Whittenburg have been on their technique to auto-qualifying on flooring and rings, respectively, however did not seal the deal on Saturday. Their performances have been nonetheless compelling sufficient to be chosen, with Nelson persistently competing a triple again and triple pike in his flooring set and Whittenburg throwing a triple pike – his eponymous ability – on rings.
There are nonetheless greater than two months till Worlds, however Malone isn’t involved concerning the workforce being named this early (for reference, the ladies’s workforce received’t be named till the top of September/starting of October).
“I like that we all know who makes it, after which we now have an opportunity to cycle correctly, like come down after which ramp again up into the competitors,” Malone stated. “However then there’s additionally one thing to be stated about, you recognize, you’re wanting higher nearer to the competitors, if we select later. So I don’t know. I’m type of combined about it. I belief what they’re doing.”
