2023 Nissen Emery Finalists

Luke Whitehouse – Triple Back

Gymnastics – International Women’s Day

In 2023 one of the top Olympic women’s sports is Gymnastics. One of the few domains where males are the minority.

Increasingly, leadership has been taken over by women. A good trend.

I’d say the most successful competitive division of WAG in the world is not FIG, but rather NCAA. And Utah led the way in making the College sport so big in the eyes of the general public.

Congratulations to all the ladies in Gymnastics on #progress. And thanks to Utah for building the sport.

Jr Worlds preview – Antalya (TUR)

Despite the earthquake hundreds of miles away, FIG kept the 2nd annual Junior WAG & MAG World Championships in Antalya, Türkiye as scheduled.

29 March-2 April, 2023

Olympic Champion Kyle Shewfelt recently called again for minimum age for Senior women to be raised to 18 — same as for MAG.

If that were to happen, Jr Worlds would be of even greater importance. And safeguards would need to be put in place to reduce instances of over-training of young children.

The first FIG Junior World Championships, held in Györ (HUN) in 2019, heralded future champions, including Tokyo 2020 Olympic Balance Beam champion Guan Chenchen (CHN), two-time World Uneven Bars champion Wei Xiaoyuan (CHN), 2022 World team champion Skye Blakely (USA), Olympic medallists Jennifer Gadirova (GBR) and Kitazono Takeru (JPN), and World medallists Kayla Di Cello (USA), Doi Ryosuke (JPN), and Illia Kovtun (UKR).

Meet the gymnasts who will compete at the Artistic Gymnastics Junior Worlds!

Note that we only have nominative registrations at this point. FINAL teams will no doubt have many changes.

Hezly Rivera – Beam

Jayla Hang is kinda good 😀

Jayla‘s from Pacific Reign Gymnastics in WA State.

Hezly Rivera and Jayla automatically qualified to the Jr World Championships 2023.

https://twitter.com/intlgymnast/status/1633153130442416128

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

U.S. Jr Worlds Teams

At the final trial:

🇺🇸 55.200 Hezly Rivera
🇺🇸 53.150 Izzy Stassi
🇺🇸 52.750 Kieryn Finnell
🇺🇸 52.600 Jayla Hang

Highest placing Canadian 🇨🇦 at the friendly dual meet was
50.250 – Cristella Brunetti-Burns.