This week’s Gymnastics In the present day highlights the all-star area set to compete on the Paris World Cup in September. Plus, Rin Keys makes historical past at rhythmic worlds, Charleigh Bullock strikes gold (5 instances) on the Junior Pan American Video games, and extra. Right here’s your weekly roundup of gymnastics information and outcomes.
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🏆 Prime Story: Jessica Gadirova, Angelina Melnikova headline Paris World Cup area
The 2025 Paris World Cup will probably be a blast from the previous as gymnasts from across the globe descend on the 2024 Olympic venue, Accor/Bercy Area, for the second-to-last World Problem Cup of the yr and a tune-up meet for creative worlds. Headlining the meet are none aside from Olympic and world medalists Angelina Melnikova (AIN from RUS) and Jessica Gadirova (GBR).
Because of the Worldwide Gymnastics Federation (FIG) ban on Russian and Belarusian athletes competing in FIG-sanctioned meets, Melnikova hasn’t competed internationally since she gained her world all-around title in 2021. She has continued to coach and was granted Licensed Impartial Athlete (AIN) standing earlier this yr. The four-time Olympic medalist was working for a political place in Russia however dropped out over the summer season to keep up her impartial standing as she eyes 2025 worlds – Paris is the primary cease on that journey. Melnikova is the one AIN from Russia set to compete in Paris.
Gadirova’s long-awaited return to worldwide competitors comes after she suffered a full ACL tear throughout coaching at 2023 worlds that subsequently brought about her to overlook competitors for the rest of 2023 and all of 2024, together with the Olympics, the place she was anticipated to be a contender for a number of medals for a lot of the quad. She returned to competitors in March on the English championships – 513 days since she final took the stage in Antwerp. Gadirova has been targeted on bars and beam thus far this yr and has said that she is conserving “the long run plan for LA 2028 in thoughts” as she slowly will get again into the swing of issues.
Though no U.S. athletes will take part this yr, the sector for Paris remains to be stacked with extra Olympic and world medalists in addition to NCAA expertise, together with:
- Reigning Olympic uneven bars champion Kaylia Nemour (ALG)
- 2024 Olympic excessive bar silver medalist Angel Barajas (COL)
- 2017 world excessive bar champion Tin Srbic (CRO)
- 2020 Olympic ground silver medalist Rayderley Zapata (ESP)
- 2025 European all-around silver medalist Alba Petisco (ESP)
- Missouri sophomore Kaia Tanskanen (FIN)
- 2019 world rings bronze medalist Samir Ait Mentioned (FRA)
- 2019 world parallel bars champion Joe Fraser (GBR)
- 2025 European combined group and vault gold medalist Karina Schoenmaier (GER)
- 2020 Olympic ground champion Artem Dolgopyat (ISR)
- 2024 Olympic pommel horse silver medalist Nariman Kurbanov (KAZ)
- 2024 European steadiness beam and ground silver medalist Sabrina Maneca-Voinea (ROU)
- Stanford freshman Jennifer Williams (SWE)
- 2020 Olympic pommel horse silver medalist Chih-Kai Lee (TPE)
- 2023 world vault bronze medalist Nazar Chepurnyi (UKR).
You possibly can see the complete nominative roster for Paris right here.
🎓 NCAA gymnastics headlines: Jade Carey employed at Oregon State, Educational All-Individuals introduced, NCAA scheduling change cracks down
Class is in session, which implies preseason has begun on faculty campuses. Whereas coaching commences for the 2026 NCAA gymnastics season, listed below are the most recent headlines from the collegiate scene:
🌍 Worldwide elite headlines: Historical past at rhythmic worlds, Charleigh Bullock wins nothing however gold at Junior Pan Am Video games
- Rhythmic worlds: There was fairly a little bit of historical past made at rhythmic worlds, which concluded in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, over the weekend. Reigning Olympic champion Darja Varfolomeev (GER) continued her dominance, successful the entire particular person titles (all-around, ball, golf equipment, ribbon) apart from hoop, which was gained by Italy’s Sofia Raffaeli. American Rin Keys continued her history-making profession when she gained silver with the ball, making her the primary U.S. rhythmic gymnast to win a medal at a senior world championships. She was additionally the primary to win a medal at a junior world championships. Learn our recap and see the complete outcomes from rhythmic worlds right here.
- Junior Pan American Video games: Charleigh Bullock (USA) was the star of creative gymnastics on the Junior Pan Am Video games, successful 5 gold medals (group, all-around, bars, beam, ground). Addalye VanGrinsven (vault) accomplished the American sweep of the ladies’s titles. The U.S. women and men’s groups had been additionally golden whereas the U.S. contingent introduced residence a complete of 31 medals (14 gold) throughout all disciplines (creative, rhythmic, trampoline).
- Thorpe to Jakarta: Australia’s Heath Thorpe was named to the nation’s group for creative worlds, which is about for October 19-25 in Jakarta, Indonesia. The fan-favorite identified for his creative aptitude was controversially left off the Aussie world group in 2023 regardless of being the then-reigning nationwide all-around champion.
- U.S. males’s program updates:
- Newest committee assembly notes:
- The gist: The MPC notes contact on some key gadgets, together with a combined group occasion being hosted by the U.S. in 2026 (particulars to come back, rumored to be an American Cup revival), the lads’s nationwide qualifier was a hit and can return in 2026, and the lads need to use the 2026 U.S. Traditional as a nationwide group camp and preparation competitors (however not instead of the qualifier). The SSC notes talk about how the lads’s world group was chosen. Damage petitions had been submitted for Shane Wiskus, Riley Loos, Alex Diab, Preston Ngai, and Justin Park. Finally, Riley Loos’ was accepted for the senior nationwide group, and Preston Ngai’s was accepted for the senior improvement group. Wiskus is recovering from shoulder surgical procedure.
😔 Damage replace: Kazuma Kaya tears Achilles
2024 Olympic group gold medalist Kazuma Kaya (JPN) shared on Instagram that he tore his Achilles whereas training on ground and had surgical procedure for the damage. He shared that he’d “been coping with persistent ache in [his] Achillese for the previous two years, however since August, the ache had been insufferable, and finally, it gave out.” His aim is to return to the all-around on the All-Japan championships subsequent April. “I’ll take the time to get well correctly with out speeding. If I need to win one other Olympic gold medal, I want to beat this damage and are available again even stronger. I’m the person who by no means provides up. I’ll return because the strongest model of myself.”
🤸 Ability highlight: Triples all over the place, Oksana at 50, Vivi Crain scorpion flip coming quickly to a beam close to you!
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