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At the World Artistic Gymnastics Championships in Rotterdam, American Frederick Richard became world champion in the floor exercise for the first time, finishing ahead of Britain's Jake Jarman. Gold on the pommel horse went to 19-year-old Armenian Amlet Manukyan, while Japan's Daiki Hashimoto, the reigning world all-around champion, flopped in the final.
Aziz KarimovThe International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) has announced that the 2030 World Championships will be held in Moscow, while the 2029 tournament will take place in Ahmedabad, India. This is the first global championship in an Olympic sport entrusted to a Russian city after 2022.
Bekzod NazarovOn the final day of the World Artistic Gymnastics Championships in Rotterdam, Americans Claire Pease and Reese Esponda took first and second place in the floor exercise, allowing the United States to overtake China in the medal table — 8 medals, 3 gold, against China's 7 medals and 3 golds.
Otabek YusupovAt the World Artistic Gymnastics Championships in Rotterdam, Russian Daniel Marinov finished third in the parallel bars event with a score of 14.866 points. The winner was China's Zou Jingyuan, with Croatia's Ilya Kovtun taking silver. Earlier, Lyudmila Roshchina won silver in the individual all-around.
Aziz KarimovBrazilian Rebeca Andrade, after a two-year break, won the vault at the World Artistic Gymnastics Championships in Rotterdam, while 19-year-old Algerian Kaylia Nemour won gold on the uneven bars for the second year in a row. Simone Biles watched the competition from the stands, still undecided on whether she will return for the 2028 Olympics.
Aziz KarimovJapan's Daiki Hashimoto won the individual all-around at the World Championships in Rotterdam, finishing ahead of China's Yang Haonan and Britain's Joe Fraser. It is his seventh world title and fourth consecutive in the all-around. Olympic champion Shinnosuke Oka botched his vault, while Russian Arseny Dukhno fell off the horizontal bar in the final apparatus.
Sevara AzamovaThe Russian men's artistic gymnastics team became the silver medalist at the World Championships in Rotterdam, scoring 250.329 points, and earned an Olympic quota spot for the 2028 Games in Los Angeles. Victory went to the Japanese team (251.928), with the Chinese taking third (249.193).
Sevara AzamovaRussian artistic gymnasts Angelina Melnikova, Viktoria Listunova and Anna Kalmykova have been denied visas for the World Championships in Rotterdam (October 17–25), the first stage of team qualification for the 2028 Olympics. The Dutch authorities cited one or more Schengen states considering the athletes a threat to their international relations. The Russian Gymnastics Federation plans to appeal to the IOC; 47 of 61 delegation members received visas. Ukrainian authorities had previously sought the gymnasts' suspension over their actions.
Bekzod Nazarov
