Richard and Pease won floor, Andrade took women’s vault and Zou won parallel bars on October 24–25 in Rotterdam. Artur Davtyan won men’s vault with 14.850 on October 25.
Algeria’s Kaylia Nemour won uneven bars and balance beam at the 2026 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships in Rotterdam. This partial apparatus-finals account focuses on six titles decided on October 24–25.
Frederick Richard’s men’s floor gold was his first world title and the first for a US man on the apparatus since 2003.
| Date | Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| October 24 | Men’s floor | Frederick Richard, US — 14.633 | — | — |
| October 24 | Women’s vault | Rebeca Andrade, Brazil | Claire Pease, US | Skye Blakely, US |
| October 24 | Women’s uneven bars |
The Armenian gymnast scored 14.850 points in the men’s final in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, to take gold.
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| Kaylia Nemour, Algeria |
| — |
| Skye Blakely, US |
| October 25 | Women’s floor | Claire Pease, US — 13.866 | Reese Esponda, US — 13.566 | Maiana Prat, France — 13.466 |
| October 25 | Women’s balance beam | Kaylia Nemour, Algeria — 14.566 | Qingying Zhang, China — 14.566 | Flavia Saraiva, Brazil — 14.300 |
| October 25 | Men’s parallel bars | Zou Jingyuan, China — 15.733 | Illia Kovtun, Croatia — 14.900 | Daniel Marinov — 14.866 |
Gymnastics scores combine difficulty, which values the skills performed, and execution, which measures how well the gymnast performs them. Pease earned higher marks than Esponda in both parts. Those advantages left Pease 0.300 points ahead even after a 0.10 penalty for stepping out of bounds.
On beam, Nemour and Zhang finished level on total points. Nemour won the tiebreak because her execution score was higher, offsetting Zhang’s more difficult routine. Zou matched Kovtun’s difficulty on parallel bars but earned a higher execution mark and a 0.10 bonus, winning by 0.833 points.
| Event and gymnast | Difficulty | Execution | Penalty or bonus |
|---|---|---|---|
| Floor — Claire Pease | 6.100 | 7.866 | −0.10 |
| Floor — Reese Esponda | 6.000 | 7.566 | — |
| Beam — Kaylia Nemour | 6.300 | 8.266 | — |
| Beam — Qingying Zhang | 6.500 | 8.066 | — |
| Parallel bars — Zou Jingyuan | 6.000 | 9.633 | +0.10 |
| Parallel bars — Illia Kovtun | 6.000 | 8.900 | — |
Pease won her first individual world title at 17, on her world championships debut. Richard, 22, said his own breakthrough rewarded his longstanding belief that he would become a champion, in comments carried by ESPN on October 26.
Andrade’s vault victory brought her career total to 10 world medals, including four golds. She had previously won world vault titles in 2021 and 2023, Olympic vault gold at the 2020 Games and Olympic silver on the apparatus in 2024.
Nemour retained the world uneven-bars title she first won in 2025, following her Olympic gold in 2024. On beam, she moved from world silver behind Zhang in 2025 to gold in Rotterdam. Zou also retained his 2025 title; his fifth world parallel-bars gold added to Olympic victories in 2020 and 2024.
Elsewhere on the final day, Armenia’s Artur Davtyan won men’s vault with 14.850. Pease’s winning floor routine was the final performance of the championships, which ended on October 25.
Armenia’s reigning European champion scored 14.233 points to finish third in Rotterdam.
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