2024 All Japan Championships and Olympic Team Contenders

Japan's Olympic team selection process began at the All Japan Championships on the 11th-14th of April (full results here), and concludes this week at the NHK Trophy on the 16th-19th May. Their team selection is known for being the most rigid in the world- it's all formulaic, with no room for subjectivity, and is only …

Chinese Nationals and Olympic Team Speculation

The Chinese National Gymnastics Championships happened on the 24th-28th of April. The competition answered a lot of questions about the current state of China's top gymnast, although it also brought up some new questions. Probably the main story from this championships was about Zhang Boheng- defending National Champion, and who proved himself as the best …

2023 World Championships: Top Scores per Event

The highest scores on each event from Worlds- tiebreaking rules apply! (Duplicate scores for gymnasts in italics) (QF= Qualifications, TF = Team Final, AA= All Around Final, EF= Event Final) All Around Hashimoto Daiki (Japan)- AA- 86.132 Sun Wei (China)- TF- 86.084 Chiba Kenta (Japan)- QF- 85.799 Kaya Kazuma (Japan)- QF- 85.598 Hashimoto Daiki (Japan)- …

2022 World Championships Preview

Team It should come as no shock to anyone that the likely scenario for this World Championships is a battle for gold between Japan and China, followed by a battle for bronze between Great Britain and USA. I've written a couple of articles going more in depth on these, looking at who has the difficulty …

Japan vs China: A Comparison

Worlds is now right around the corner, and once again we are faced with a looming showdown between Japan and China for the team title. I have already written up a comparison about the expect battle for bronze between GB and USA here, so now it's time to compare Japan and China! (But of course, …

Great Britain vs USA: A Comparison

World Championships is now rights around the corner, and with Japan and China expected to be battling it out for the gold and silver medals in the team event, the big question is who is the favourite for bronze? Since 2016, USA and GB have been going back and forth in the 4th and 5th …

Great Britain vs Japan: A Comparison

Following on from Great Britain's hugely successful and impressive performance at 2022 Euros, plus the same team's dominance representing England at the Commonwealth Games, I've had a lot of questions and comment about how they would stack up against the other top teams in the World. Since Japan are the only team to have named …

2022 European Championships All Around and Apparatus Preview

Team competition preview HERE All Around It's hard to know how to approach a discussion about this AA competition because the favourite on paper, Joe Fraser, is a bit of a questionmark. Joe only competed 4 events at Commonwealth Games a couple of weeks ago due to a fractured foot, however is down on the …

2022 European Championships Team Preview

All around and individual appratus preview HERE The heavy favourites for the team title at this Euros are Great Britain- the team is identical to the English team that won Commonwealth Games a couple of weeks ago with a strong team score of 254.550. For context, this is just over a point lower than the …

2022 Commonwealth Games Team and All Around Preview

Team The English team of James Hall, Joe Fraser, Courtney Tulloch, Giarnni Regini-Moran and Jake Jarman, is the far and away favourite for the team gold this Commonwealth Games. Not only are they the favourites, but they are expected to win by a huge margin- in 2018 the gap between gold medal winning England and …