11-08-2025
Olympian Hezly Rivera edges Leanne Wong for victory at the US gymnastics championships
Final standings from the Senior Women's Competition at
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Three weeks after a shaky meet at the US Classic, where she finished a distant 12th, Rivera responded with the kind of polished performance that all but assured her of a spot on the four-woman world championship team that will head to Jakarta, Indonesia, in October.
Rivera, at the very least, locked up a spot in the world championship selection camp next month. So did Wong, a four-time world championship medalist. Third-place finisher Joscelyn Roberson, an Olympic alternate last summer, also figures to be at the selection camp as the three veterans put significant distance between themselves and the rest of a remarkably young field.
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Golden yet again! 🥇
Hezly Rivera is the 2025
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LEANNE IS LOCKED IN 🔒
She scores a 13.950 on Balance Beam at
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Wong put pressure on Rivera from the start with a stuck Cheng vault and didn't relent over the course of two hours.
Leanne Wong. Stuck Cheng.
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Rivera responded each time — she posted the top scores on three of the four events — but it wasn't until she walked off the podium following her floor routine with victory in hand that she could relax.
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Hezly Rivera shines on uneven bars with a stellar routine. 👏
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Roberson looked ready to make it a three-woman race until she tweaked her ankle on floor exercise during the second rotation. The rising sophomore at Arkansas, visibly limping at times, continued on anyway. She gritted her way through her vault dismount, though the five-tenths (0.5) deduction for using an additional pad for her protection took her out of contention for the all-around.
Skye Blakely, who was injured at the Olympic Trials in both 2021 and 2024, was sublime on both uneven bars and balance beam to put herself in consideration to make the world team.
