Twists & Turns – Jr Worlds Apparatus Finals – Day 1 VIDEOS

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Men’s & Women’s All-Around Final at Jr Worlds – day 2

Beam

Enjoyable Beam Final, for a change. Only 2 falls. All finalists showed some excellent Gymnastics.

🥇 Xiang Yina 🇨🇳 14.133
🥈 Minamino Yume 🇯🇵 13.800
🥉 Caroline Moreau 🇺🇸 13.600

Floor

Elena had a 0.3 deduction for out of bounds.

🥇🇯🇵 NISHIYAMA Misa 5.3/8.233 – 13.533
🥈🇫🇷 COLAS Elena 5.6/7.900 -0.3 – 13.200
🥉🇫🇷 PRAT Maiana 5.3/7.866 – 13.166

Vault

A good final. The medalists would be very competitive in any Sr. competition.

Dukhno STUCK Yurchenko 3/1 twist. A Vault motor genius.

🥇 Arsenii Dukhno ◻️ 14.333
🥈 Sol Scott 🇬🇧 14.066
🥉 Evan McPhillips 🇬🇧 13.950

P Bars

Fun Final with some great Gymnastics. Some unique skills.

Seems there is no tie-break.

🥇 Camilo Vera 🇨🇴 13.866
🥇 Ojima Nao 🇯🇵 13.866
🥉 Yang Lanbin 🇨🇳 13.600
🥉 Leykin Danila USA 13.600

H Bar

Last routine at an excellent Jr World Championships was Camilo VERA from Colombia. He shocked the very savvy audience connecting Cassina to Kolman. Then sticking dismount. A deserving World Champion.

🥇 Camilo Vera 🇨🇴 14.533
🥈 Danila Leykin 🇺🇸 14.233
🥉 Karl Eldrew Yulo 🇵🇭 14.000

Home fans even happier with Yulo the 2nd collecting his 2nd individual apparatus medal.

Top 3 all stuck dismount collecting 0.1 bonus.

Camilo VERA won P Bars and H Bar. I’m still thinking about putting down a wager on Columbia qualifying a full team to the L.A. Olympics. 😀

Men’s Jr Worlds Gymnastics AA Final HIGHLIGHTS

Read the FIG summing-up:

Minamino and Dukhno grab Junior World All-Around titles on a night of surprises in the Philippines

Arsenii Dukhno is an amazing talent who’s only challenge for the future in Senior is a lack of Ring strength holds. BUT he had a fall on the last apparatus — H Bar — and we wondered if he could stay ahead of the terrific competition. It was an excellent meet with relatively few errors from the top group.

  1. Arsenii Dukhno AIN 82.031
  2. Ojima Nao JPN 81.799
  3. Yang Lanbin 81.099
  4. Danila Leykin USA 79.866
  5. Simone Speranza ITA 79.032
  6. Sol Scott GBR 78.997
  7. Nael Sakouhi FRA 78.932
  8. Karl Yulo PHI 78.731
  9. Wang Chengcheng CHI 78.365
  10. Evan McPhillips GBR 77.866

Full Results.

A few notes from the 2025 Junior World Artistic Gymnastics Championships Men’s All-around FINAL.

  • Danila Leykin looks to have potential to qualify for Senior U.S. teams. He could be a counting score on P Bars and H Bar already. Pommels could get there, as well.
  • is Philippines the fastest improving Gymnastics nation? With Karl Eldrew joining his brother in Senior … look out.
  • volume way too high in that small hotel ballroom. My noise cancelling headphones helped.
  • I’m wondering if we need announce every inquiry to the arena audience. Better would be to announce ONLY those scores that change. It was definitely a distraction. Also, why are the judges changing so many D-scores? Get it right in the first place.
  • remember the name ➙ Volodymyr Golovin (Ukraine)
  • Canadian Thomas Tittley withdrew from the World Jr Gymnastics Championships due to a neck injury suffered training H Bar just before Podium Training. Happily, it turned out to be minor.
  • Simone Speranza amazing Triple Tuck knees together STICK 🇮🇹 on Rings. Once FIG rules change in 2026, I expect many to stop using Triple Back dismount. But not Simone.
  • GREAT for the fans to have gymnasts on all 6 apparatus. The meet might be rushed for the gymnasts, however.
  • In Győr, Hungary 2019, the Jr. winner was Shinnosuke Oka who went on to be Olympic champion.

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 ➙ Nikita Netreba, Poland.
  • Remember the name ➙ 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 Finał Qualifiers

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

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube. Vault, Parallel Bars, and High Bar PODCAST.

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:

zhoxxyy2025 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

Related:

Hits, Misses, Surprises – Mens World Gymnastics Championships 2025

One of the great analysis sites of Men’s Gymnastics is “Zhoxxyy” 

Here’s a sample:

Jakarta 2025 Qualifications Review

For each of the events, the Hits, the Misses and the Surprises will be reviewed.

Floor

Jake Jarman (GBR): the bronze medalist at the 2024 Games totally delivered with a tough routine (and didn’t fall…)
Carlos Yulo (PHI): the Olympic champion nailed it again with his awesome execution. He may increase his D score in the final
Kameron Nelson (USA): 1st World Championships, 1st gymnast to include 2 triple backs in the same routine. It paid off
Minami Kazuki (JPN): 2X silver medalist on FX at WC, one of the best Japanese FX specialists
Milad Karimi (KAZ): regularly qualifies for FX finals and won bronze in Antwerp. Solid routine.
Luke Whitehouse (GBR): the 3X European Champion is the 2nd Brit in the final

Jakarta 2025 Qualifications Misses Dog

Several gymnasts have reported difficulties with the Taishan floor podiums, noting that numerous athletes experienced falls, particularly during double fronts.
Harry Hepworth (GBR): he got luckier on rings; out of the three British FX guys, one was bound to trip up and miss the final (he fell after his double front)
Ray Zapata (ESP): the Tokyo silver medalist and Paris finalist had a bummer of a fall during his tuck double front, but his routine was pretty solid overall
Eddie & Kevin Penev (BUL): the Penev Brothers provide an enjoyable viewing experience; Kevin is the third reserve and Eddie attained a slightly lower score.

Jakarta 2025 Qualifications Surprises Dog 6

Tikumporn Suritornta (THA): I don’t think many people predicted the qualification of the 27 year old gymnast from Samut Sakhon in Thailand. Great surprise and great upset!
Krisztofer Mészáros (HUN): It’s kinda a surprise, but not really, since Titi is all about those floor podiums. Super cool to see him make it to the finals in Jakarta

Read the rest …

Jakarta 2025 Qualifications: Hits, Misses, & Surprises