Category: Gymnastics

Singapore’s Amanda Yap makes history at Gymnastics Worlds ’25

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Denisa Golgotă – FLOOR

World Gymnastics Championships 2025 Jakarta.

Maybe my favourite routine at Worlds. I love the false endings. Unique choreography. The whole package.

It was great in qualifications — but the Finals routine missed passage of dance.

I did hear that she was suffering from something, perhaps food poisoning.

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Sadly, Denisa is in the middle of yet another Romanian team drama.

Ellie Black – Jakarta Beam Final

Her typical routine would have been enough for a medal in MOST World Championships Finals. But Jakarta was one of the greatest all time.

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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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Apparatus Finals – day 1 VIDEOs

World Gymnastics Championships 2025 Jakarta. 

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Men’s World Gymnastics Championships 25 – Floor, Pommels, Rings

The best review of MAG day 1 Apparatus Finals is on the Neutral Deductions podcast.

Kensley Behel & Sam Oldham.

Sam’s working with BBC on their broadcast.

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Worlds ’25 Apparatus Finals – day 1

World Gymnastics Championships 2025 Jakarta. 

Gymnasts warm-up in the arena for Event Finals. This competition is LONG, of course, with only 1 routine at a time, so many go back to the training Gym to stay warmed-up.

Links to full results.

Floor

Superb Final. Huge difficulty. Really well done.

Vault

Terrible Final.

I expected Deng to medal. Warm-ups were strong. But she ran over the horse and got a zero on her first vault. Judges wouldn’t let her do a second.

Schönmaier tried upgrading to Cheng  — but lost 2.0 for using only 1 hand.

16-year-old Lia-Monica Fontaine is the breakout star on Vault. Tons of potential here. And very good in the AA, as well. She’s destined to be on the Canadian team for years to come.

Pommels

Toughest final, in my opinion. Of the top routines, any could have been World Champion. Scores are that close.

Bars

After the awful Vault Final, Bars was one of the best ever. Fantastic performances.

In fact, the routine everyone will remember from Jakarta will be G.O.A.T. Kalyia Nemour hitting this set.

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Skye hit her best Bars in some time. Ever?

Zoja Szekely did a good routine, but couldn’t land her dismount. I understand she was too injured from Vault the previous day. I admire her courage. But with 20 / 20 hindsight, she should have withdrawn and let the Reserve gymnast go.

Rings

Amazing Final. Superhuman strength.

Dismount landing critical.

This sets up Donnell for the coming quadrennial. USA can always use a top Ring man who can compete other apparatus, if needed. Along with Asher Hong, it would not be a weak event.

Zhang Boheng and Adem Asil are incredibly good at Rings for AA gymnasts.

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