Category: Gymnastics

Women’s Worlds Apparatus Finalists

Top 8 / apparatus. Maximum 2 / nation.

There are 9 on Bars as there was a tied tie for the final position.

Simone is in all 4 event Finals.

Urara Ashikawa – Beam

Urara Ashikawa, the 2021 World Champion on Beam is back in the 2023 Final.

Beaming Pauline Schaefer-Betz

Excellent.

Yeo Seojeong – Vault

Yeo Seojeong is the reigning Olympic bronze medalist on Vault.

Amazing form and power.

Click PLAY or watch an interview after qualifications on YouTube.

Kaylia Neymour qualified to Olympics

Kaylia was born in Saint-Benoît-la-Forêt, France, to a French mother and an Algerian father.

She’s representing Algeria at Worlds 2023.

Happily, she hit 4/4 in the qualification round and has qualified to Paris through the AA.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

She’ll be one of the favourites in the Bars final, as well.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

Max and Rhys

Max Whitlock is the double defending Olympic Champion. Very difficult to defeat in competition.

Rhys McClenaghan swings better, but has a lower start score.

Of course there are other top guys who could take the gold medal over both.

MAG / WAG qualification highlights VIDEO

The Simone Biles show. 😀

Click PLAY or watch it on Instagram.

Seojeong Yeo – Vault

Amazing. How does a human being that small generate so much power off a HARD FIG Spring Board?

The Tokyo Olympic bronze medalist.

Perhaps she’ll use her eponymous Yeo (5.8) — handspring layout double twist in the Final. I doubt she’d need it for the silver medal, however.

Hillary Heron from Panama

The first flight of women’s Gymnastics qualifications was wonderful. Italy. Netherlands.

But the biggest excitement was generated by a gymnast I didn’t know.

Her Rudi Vault was even better. Stuck.

MAG Apparatus Finalists

Pommels is the strongest Final. Any of these guys could medal on the day.

You have to call Artur the favourite.