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Men’s Jr Worlds Qualification HIGHLIGHTS

Read the FIG summing-up:

Chinese men strike gold as Junior World Championships get underway in Manila

  • Yang Lanbin, Wang Chengcheng and Zheng Ao 1st Jr. Men’s World team title
  • Arsenii Dukhno (AIN) leads in the All-Around with 82.065 despite a major error on P Bars and minor problems on H Bar.  First on Floor and Vault. 
  • Karl Eldrew Yulo (PHI), the younger brother of Olympic champion Carlos Yulo, was the gymnast most cheered.  Very similar at the same age.  Eldrew qualified for Floor, Vault, H Bar and All-Around Finals. 
  • Danila Leykin (USA) leads on P Bars and H Bar with terrific and interesting routines.  USA very excited about finishing Bronze in team.  

Watching Podium training, I expected a lot of falls. BUT performances in competition were good, overall.

Falls mostly on:

  • Double Front on Floor
  • Under-rotated H Bar dismounts
  • Pommels, especially dismounts

Many fell on Vault landings, but not many felt unsafe. Most of the nations made good decisions on difficulty.

  • Remember the name βž™ Nikita Netreba, Poland.
  • Remember the name βž™ Aaron Esner, Netherlands.  Tons of potential. 

Looks to me like we will have more 1/1 twisting Double Tuck dismounts off P Bars in the future. Evan McPhillips (GBR) and Dukhno, for example. All 3 Colombia gymnasts used Flyaway 1/1 twisting Double Tuck dismounts off the end.

Hey. Could Colombia qualify a full team to the L.A. Olympics? They have 2 very strong all-around gymnasts in Ángel Barajas and Camilo Vera.

I recall well when Taiwan qualified a full men’s team unexpectedly. It could happen again.

  • pinning numbers on gymnasts in competition is unnecessary and stupid
  • pinning numbers on gymnasts in competition is unnecessary and stupid
  • pinning numbers on gymnasts in competition is unnecessary and stupid

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Men’s Jr Worlds ’25 RESULTS

From the Qualification Day – November 20

Team

China, Japan, USA

Without watching scores, I’d ASSuMEd Japan had beaten China due to higher difficulty. I was way wrong.

AA Final Qualifiers

Arsenii Dukhno from that Putin nation was easily the top AA gymnast. And he did not have a perfect competition. He’ll definitely contend in the AA at the Los Angeles Olympics. Amazing Vault and Tumbling for a gymnast with a build more suited to swinging.

Floor Final Qualifiers

Pommel Final Qualifiers

Rings Final Qualifiers

Vault Final Qualifiers

P Bars Final Qualifiers

H Bar FinaΕ‚ Qualifiers

Gabriel Eichhorn breaks the H Bar

The best gymnasts in the world put a LOT of force into the apparatus.

Breaking springboards, for example.

Guys told me that the connection between cable and top of the post failed, in this case. I saw TaiShan guys going around and checking them.

Backward Roll to Handstand

How to Gymnastics has a terrific article & videos on how gymnasts can perfect Backward Extension to Handstand skills:

How To Back Extension Roll to Handstand

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Should FIG raise the H Bar? πŸ˜€

Testing, testing.

We could lash them to the rail for safety. πŸ˜€

Singapore

MAG Record Breakers in Jakarta

Lauren is keeping track of historic factoids.

What MEN made history at the World Gymnastics Championships 2025?

Mamikon Khachatryan and Hamlet Manukyan (both amazing), Zou Jingyuan (4th gold on P Bars), Angel Barajas, Omar Mohamed, Dagur Olafsson, Sebastian Sponevik, Jameel Ali, and many more.

Click through for the details.

MAG Record Breakers in Jakarta

Apparatus Finals – day 2 VIDEOs

World Champions:

  • MAG VT: Carlos Yulo
  • WAG BB: Zhang Qingying
  • MAG PB: Zou Jingyuan
  • WAG FX: Sugihara Aiko
  • MAG HB: Brody Malone

FIG – Familiar faces adorn the podiums as World Gymnastics Championships end

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Click PLAY or watch the GymCastic PODCAST on YouTube. WAG & MAG.

Gymnastics World’s 25 Jakarta Men’s AA STATISTICS

  • Hashimoto Daike had 4 of the top scores on 6 apparatus!
  • Angel Barajas had the highest difficulty 33.2
  • Daniel Marinov best execution score 52.132
  • Ryu Sung-hyun the most stuck landings bonus

Those are all from an excellent wrap-up post:

zhoxxyy – 2025 Jakarta MAG All-Around: Qualifiers’ Fate




Worlds ’25 Apparatus Finals – day 2

World Gymnastics Championships 2025 Jakarta. 

Gymnasts warm-up in the arena for Event Finals. Some did a lot. Some very little. Each has their own strategy.

Links to full results.

Vault

Without question, the greatest Men’s VAULT Final in history.

After our Olympic Champ Yulo delivered near perfection on his 1st vault, we thought the legend Davtyan couldn’t catch him due to lower difficulty. BUT it nearly happened. What a rivalry!

Beam

That might be the greatest BEAM Final in history. It’s so often been a disaster.

Following the Beam Final, FIG posted Ellie Black’s Fair Play Award from the Paris Olympics. Everyone loves Ellie, in good position to qualify for her 5th Olympics.

Her Beam was fantastic, by the way.

P Bars

LEGEND. G.O.A.T.

Floor

Thrilled Sigihara Aiko at age-26 is World Champion. Gold on Floor, Bronze on Beam.

I was disappointed for Sabrina Maneca-Voinea, finishing 4th. Fantastic tumbling.

Ruby and Abigail are great on Floor, as are their GBR male teammates.

H Bar

A super strong field of competitors. But there were 2 falls and a number of bent elbow errors.

Brody is World Champion for the second time. Recall he only barely qualified for the Final.

We can argue Brody v Daiki for Gold. But Brody does have 0.2 higher difficulty.

I was happy to see Joe finish Bronze rather than 4th. That was a good set with BIG Triple Pike dismount

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