ROTTERDAM, Netherlands (AP) — Newly minted all-around champion Skye Blakely added to her medal haul on the world gymnastics championships, incomes bronze on vault and uneven bars through the occasion finals on Saturday.
The 21-year-old from Dallas, who soared to gold within the all-around on Friday after recovering from accidents that wrecked her Olympic hopes in 2021 and once more in 2024, hardly seemed drained in what has rapidly grow to be the meet of her life.
Blakely averaged a rating of 14.466 on her pair of vaults to share the rostrum with gold medalist Rebeca Andrade of Brazil and American teammate Claire Pease. Canada’s Lia-Monica Fontaine (14.083) and Ellie Black (13.996) completed fourth and fifth, respectively.
Andrade, the Olympic champion on vault and the Olympic silver medalist within the all-around in Paris behind Simone Biles, edged Pease for gold. The 27-year-old Andrade, who’s competing as an occasion specialist in the mean time whereas eyeing a run on the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics, averaged 14.666, a bit forward of Pease at 14.233.
Kaylia Nemour of Algeria recovered from a misstep on vault within the all-around finals on Friday that price her a medal to simply defend her gold on uneven bars. Nemour’s intricate and technically demanding routine — maybe the toughest at the moment being finished by any gymnast, male or feminine, on any occasion — earned her a 15.333, the best rating of the day.
Helen Kervic of Germany captured the silver at 14.833, with Blakely in third at 14.600.
Blakely, who joined Olympic champions Biles and Nastia Liukin in addition to Rebecca Bross as the one American ladies to win a minimum of 4 medals at a single worlds, could have an opportunity so as to add to her medal whole on Sunday when she competes within the beam remaining.
American Fred Richard helped the U.S. males’s group earn a little bit of redemption after a shaky seventh-place end within the group remaining by edging Jake Jarman of Britain for gold within the flooring train. The 22-year-old Richard, who has spent the final a number of years attempting to lift the profile of the boys’s aspect of the game via social media, posted a 14.633 to offer the People their third particular person gold within the final two years.
Jarman, who got here in because the defending champion on the occasion, put collectively a harder routine however was nicked by judges for his execution. His 14.600 wasn’t fairly sufficient to knock Richard off the highest of the rostrum.
Carlos Yulo, the reigning Olympic champion on flooring, sat throughout his second tumbling cross and completed eighth within the eight-man remaining. Arsenii Dukhno of Russia, who topped qualifying, bounded out of bounds after overcooking a tumbling sequence and wound up sixth.
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