Category: pommel horse

understanding Men’s Gymnastics scores

Men’s Gymnastics competitions are fantastically competitive and exciting

Much more exciting than women’s, in comparison.

BUT very few of the general public understand much about the scores. Since we dropped the “perfect 10”, it’s not worth bothering to look at the number for most fans.

zhoxxyy simplifies it for us:

How to Read Gymnastics Scoring in 60 seconds?

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

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Jr. Gymnastics Worlds Apparatus Finals day 1

Vault

Personally, I had Nishiyama 1st. BUT as a big Lavi fan, I’m super happy for her. Gold on Vault after 4th AA yesterday.

Bars

A deserving podium. HIT routines.

Sadly, Elena fell on release.

Floor

Favourite Dukhno had the most difficulty. But landings and O.B. dropped him to 4th. Judges “boxed” the E-scores, as usual, but I’d say they got the medal ranking correct.

Pommels

Worst Worlds Pommel Final I can recall. All 8 had falls or major errors on Handstand dismount. A disappointment.

Rings

World Champion Dante Reive. His father / coach is JD Reive, a U.S. National team member for many years.

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

Men’s Jr Worlds Podium Training

A few notes from the 2025 Junior World Artistic Gymnastics Championships MAG podium training.

Competition goes 20 to 24 November at the Marriott Grand Ballroom at the Newport World Resorts in the Metro Manila city of Pasay.

  • most of the young men took this opportunity quite seriously. There wasn’t much joking around on the floor.
  • coaches free to ask questions of the judges
  • facility looks great. Feels more like a small arena than a hotel ballroom.
photo via FIG
  • competitors who haven’t trained on TaiShan told me equipment was good — but different. Floor is hard as most NEW Floors are until hundreds of gymnasts have pounded it. One told me the Pommel Horse felt springy. Light coloured Floor caused no confusion. It’s not white, as it was in Jakarta.
  • once again, something went wrong with the podium H Bar set-up. Yep. While USA was training. Actually, it was just the tension gauge which stopped working and had to be replaced. It caused a slight delay.
  • close to 750 athletes total will compete in the 2025 edition of Jr. Worlds, the 3rd edition. It’s getting increasingly popular. Nations are finding funding.
  • Israel is here — and their guys look great. Potential for several Finals.
  • security seems quite good to me. The streets of Pasay City outside reveal many armed guards, as well.  We are close to the airport. 
  • Ukraine and AIN are here
  • Karl Eldrew Yulo, the younger brother of two-time Olympic gold medalist Carlos Yulo, has a lot of media following him. Another superstar in the making for Philippines.

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  • Japan is looking great, as expected. China as well.
  • Rings is the weak apparatus, as expected.
  • Pommels impressed me most. There are another dozen Juniors who will soon be challenging the top Seniors on Horse. I can’t understand how so many guys are getting so good, so young.
  • of course the size and maturation of competitors is wildly different at this age. Some guys are more than twice as heavy as others. Happily, late developers have some advantages in MAG. There’s no rush.
  • how many of these Juniors will ever compete Sr. Worlds?
  • on the other hand, Shinnosuke Oka won the 1st Jr. Worlds in 2019 and went on to be Olympic Champion in 2024. Ángel Barajas was 2nd AA at the 2023 Jr Worlds. A year later won the silver medal on the horizontal bar at the 2024 Olympic Games.
  • no doubt some future stars will become well known after Manila

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Congratulations to GAP and the organizing committee. They’ve done an amazing job putting together this competition.

CAT on Pommels

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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

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