Khoi Young of Stanford won the silver on PH to lead the NCAA-related effort at the World Championships Event Finals. Florida commit Shilese Jones won bronze on UB while Simone Biles took silver on VT (after falling on the Biles 2). On Men's FX, Fred Richard was 8th. On Women's VT, Florida's Leanne Wong was 7th and Nebraska's Csenge Backsay (Hungary) was 8th. Biles was 5th on UB.
Event finals continue tomorrow.
Link: Results
Ariel Collum, Brown's LV, qualified to '23 regionals and competed three events.
Kennedy Cooper, Michigan Elite, won her '23 regional meet and placed 1st on floor. She placed 54th AA at nationals.
video
Sophia Pujols, Wildfire Gymnastics, qualified to nationals and finished 44th AA.
Eden Webster, Gymnastix Training Center, competed three events at her state and regional meets last season, placing 1st on beam at both meets.
Simone Biles of the USA won her sixth World AA title, tying the all-time record. She also became the gymnast with the most World and Olympic medals in all of history, man or woman. Brazil's Rebeca Andrade was 2nd and Shilese Jones, a UF commit, was third. Biles started off with a 15.1 for a stuck Cheng, her best version of that VT since coming back, with a solid block and huge distance. She stayed steady on UB. On BB, she had a wobble after her mount and went to her backup combo (switch split, switch 1/2, back pike). The crowd gasped, however, on FX when Biles tripped when heading into her switch split full. Laughing after she landed, she posted a 14.533 despite losing the value of the skill. As we all can attest, gymnasts can do a triple twisting double, but they'll trip when walking across the room.
Link: Results
Michigan's Frederick Richard won the bronze medal in the AA finals of the 2023 World Championships. At 19, he becomes the USA's youngest individual medalist and youngest multi-medalist at World's. Daiki Hashimoto of Japan defended his title to win gold, with Illia Kovtun of the Ukraine in 2nd. Hashimoto had a 0.6 lead over Richard heading into the final round, but Richard had a miss on HB. He finished up strong to prevail as the next nearest competitors also experienced errors.
Link: Results
Hailee Bowen, All American Gymnastics, won her '23 state meet and swept the events. She qualified to compete vault at nationals and placed 16th.
Katherine Shackelford, CGI, won her '23 state vault and bars title. She placed 3rd AA and 1st on bars at regionals and she finished 8th AA at nationals.
Audrey Brenner, Precision Gymnastics, qualified to '23 nationals and placed 45th AA.