Live Blog: Men’s Team Final | 2023 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships

Tue. Oct. 3 @ 10:19 p.m.

FINAL standings!

1. Japan – 255.594
2. China – 253.794
3. USA – 252.428

Tue. Oct. 3 @ 10:17 p.m.

China on rings:

• Liu Yang = Rock solid. Guy is not moving. Small step on dismount. 15.000.
• Sun Wei = 13.966
• You Hao = MASSIVE routine. STUCK laid-out double-double. 14.866.

Great Britain on floor:

• James Hall = Tucked double-double, small hop. Half-in, half-out. FHS pass. 2.5 to front layout, small hop. Randi. Triple full with a step. 13.966. 
• Harry Hepworth = Triple-double, one foot OOB. Front full to front double pike, sits it. Front double full to front double tuck, hop forward. 2.5 to front layout. Double-double, basically stuck. Triple full, step, OOB. 12.800.
• Jake Jarman = Laid-out double-double. Tucked triple-double, step forward. Tucked double-double, stays in bounds. Triple full to the side. Front full to Randi. Front layout to front double full. 3.5 twist dismount. Coming in clutch when they need it. 14.533.

Tue. Oct. 3 @ 10:15 p.m.

Hashimoto Daiki (JPN): Was busy calculating scores so missed the start. Wild stoop full. Hop full. Sticks dismount! Japan are your World Champions!

Tue. Oct. 3 @ 10:08 p.m.

Fred Richard (USA) HB: Cassina. Kolman. Tkatchev layout. Tkatchev straddle connected to pike. Stoop full – big form break. STICKS his dismount and goes WILD. That might do it… 14.533!

Tue. Oct. 3 @ 10:06 p.m.

Chiba Kenta (JPN): Inbar endo. Kolman. Tkatchev layout. Stoop full and goes the wrong way. Yamawaki. Stoop 1/2. Hop full. Sticks double double. 13.566.

Tue. Oct. 3 @ 10:02 p.m.

Paul Juda (USA): Yamawaki. Kovacs. Tkatchev layout then straddle into pike. Great. Stoop. Stoop 1/2. STICKS the double layout full. So clean! 13.933.

Tue. Oct. 3 @ 10:00 p.m.

Kaya Kazuma (JPN): Kolman. Tkatchev layout then straddle. Stoop full. Stoop 1/2. Czech giant sequence. Inbar stalder. STUCK double double. Lets out a literal roar. 14.000.

Tue. Oct. 3 @ 9:57 p.m.

Khoi Young (USA): Yamawaki. Stoop full to hstd. Stoop 1/2. Tkatchev lay. Tkatchev straddle. Wild in the air on the dismount but lands with a hop forward!

Tue. Oct. 3 @ 9:53 p.m.

Great Britain and Canada on high bar:

• Max Whitlock (GBR) = 13.400

• William Emard (CAN) = Major error early on and he has to come off. Beautiful releases but he falls again. 10.266

• James Hall (GBR) = Catches the Cassina and Kolman and misses the straddled Tkatchev and he’s off. 12.433.

• Rene Cournoyer (CAN) = 13.866

• Jake Jarman (GBR) = 13.200

• Felix Dolci (CAN) = Sticks his dismount COLD. Another great set from Dolci. 14.033.

China on pommel horse:

• You Hao = 13.400
• Sun Wei = 14.266
• Lin Chaopan = 13.200

Tue. Oct. 3 @ 9:50 p.m.

Yul Moldauer (USA) PB: Felge hstd. Felge 1/2. Diam. Giant diam. Giant makuts. HUGE SAVE on the makuts. Healy. Suarez from upper arm. Layout Suarez from giant. STUCK double front 1/2. 14.933!!!! WOW. The US go into 2nd place ahead of China.

Tue. Oct. 3 @ 9:47 p.m.

Sugimoto Kaito (JPN) PB: Whippet. Healy. Front up stutz. Felge 1/2. Felge. Giant. Straddle front. Bhavsar. Tippelt. Chest low but sticks the double front 1/2! 14.833!

Tue. Oct. 3 @ 9:45 p.m.

Asher Hong (USA) PB: Whippet. Felge hstd. Bhavsar. Giant. Tippelt – very good. Catches the Makuts SO low but fights. Healy. Diam. Stutz. Double front 1/2. Hops forward.

Tue. Oct. 3 @ 9:42 p.m.

Hashimoto Daiki (JPN) PB: Whippet. Healy. Felge hstd. Giant. Straddle front. Bhavsar (might have clipped the bar). Tippelt. Stutz. STUCK double front 1/2.

Tue. Oct. 3 @ 9:38 p.m.

Fred Richard (USA) PB: Front up stutz. Suarez. Straddle front. Giant. Textbook Bhavsar. Tippelt. Healy. Diam (wobble on handstand). Stutz. Double front. 14.033

Tue. Oct. 3 @ 9:35 p.m.

Kaya Kazuma (JPN) PB: Whippet. Makuts – long hold. Healy. Felge 1/2. Felge hstd. Giant. Straddle front. Bhavsar – great! Tippelt. Double front 1/2 – STUCK! 14.733!!!

Tue. Oct. 3 @ 9:32 p.m.

ONLY 0.134 separating Japan (1st) and China (3rd) with GB (2nd) in the middle. 2 rotations to go!!

Tue. Oct. 3 @ 9:27 p.m.

China on floor:

• Sun Wei = Randi. Front double full to front layout. Tucked double-double, hop forward. Double twist, small hop. 2.5 to front full, small stumble back. Stuck triple full dismount. 14.033.

• Lin Chaopan = Front double full to front double tuck, OOB. Front double pike, large hop. Randi. Double full. Stuck 2.5 to front full. Triple full to close. 13.800.

• Su Weide = 2.5 to front double tuck, MASSIVE. 3.5 twist. Tucked double-double. Back 1.5 to Rudi. (Was meant to be a Randi but punched wrong.) Front full (counted as same skill as Rudi) to front double. Triple twist. 14.100. 5.8 D-score, definitely got docked for the changed skill.

Great Britain and Canada on parallel bars:

• William Emard (CAN) = Clean set. Double front dismount is solid. 14.033.

• Max Whitlock (GBR) = 13.800

• Rene Cournoyer (CAN) = 13.666

• James Hall (GBR) = 14.466

• Felix Dolci (CAN) = 14.100

• Jake Jarman (GBR) = Fab set. Double front half, smallest of adjustments on the dismount. 14.166.

Tue. Oct. 3 @ 9:16 p.m.

Minami Kazuki (JPN) VT: STICKS his kas double!!! Punches the air. That was beautiful! 15.000 (9.400)!

Tue. Oct. 3 @ 9:15 p.m.

Asher Hong (USA) VT: Big run into the RSG… it is big, and GREAT. Steps back. Scores a 15.100!

Tue. Oct. 3 @ 9:12 p.m.

Hashimoto Daiki (JPN) VT: Very very nice kas double. Hops back and applauds himself. 14.900!!!

Tue. Oct. 3 @ 9:10 p.m.

Paul Juda (USA) VT: Goes for the YDP… slow in the air with rotation and a very deep landing. He stumbles back. The score is good though – 14.400!

Tue. Oct. 3 @ 9:08 p.m.

Kaya Kazuma (JPN) VT: Kas double. Small form errors in the air but just the small hop back. 14.633.

Tue. Oct. 3 @ 9:05 p.m.

Khoi Young (USA) VT: Handspring front 2.5 So high. Takes 3 small steps to the side and foot goes OOB. 14.666.

Tue. Oct. 3 @ 9:03 p.m.

VT:

• Jake Jarman (GBR) = 15.4 for his MASSIVE Kas 2.5.

• Felix Dolci (CAN) = Kas 1.5. 14.333.

• Harry Hepworth (GBR) = BIG FHS Randi. Smallest of hops. Super powerful. 14.866 – 9.266 execution.

• Rene Cournoyer (CAN) = Double front, small hop. 14.400.

• Courtney Tulloch (GBR) = Dragulescu (double front half). Step to the side. He’s been having trouble with that vault, so great to see him get it done. 14.333. 

• William Emard (CAN) = He balked this in qualifying. No balk this time – Kas 1.5 large step off the mat, but he cranked it out nonetheless. 14.033.

SR: 

• Kaya Kazuma (JPN) = 14.033 

• Paul Juda (USA) = Clean set. 13.600

• Sugimoto Kaito (JPN) = 13.700

• Yul Moldauer (USA) = Very clean set. Big tucked double-double dismount with a small hop. 13.866.

• Chiba Kenta (JPN) = Stuck his dismount cold. 13.566. Inquiry submitted, and it’s approved to improve to a 13.766.

• Asher Hong (USA) = 14.000 for a BIG set that included a big laid-out double-double dismount.

Tue. Oct. 3 @ 8:57 p.m.

Lukas Dauser (GER) PB: Works through his routine as usual. His Makuts is the best ever done – fight me! Sticks his double front 1/2 to finish. Incredible. 15.366!!!

Tue. Oct. 3 @ 8:55 p.m.

China high bar below.

Lin Chaopan: Stoop 1/2 connected into Kolman. Cassina. Czech giant sequence. Stoop full – it’s low. Sticks his double double layout. 14.133.

Su Weide: Stoop full. Stoop 1/2. LIUKIN! It is stunning. High tkatchev layout… misses it! Falls again – this time on the Coleman (slips off right at the front). Czech giant sequence with his number hanging off. Double double layout to finish. 11.166. China counting 2 falls on HB with Lin Chaopan to go.

Tue. Oct. 3 @ 8:46 p.m.

Courtney Tulloch (GBR) VT: Competes a nice Drăgulescu vault (handspring double front 1/2). 14.333 for him.

Tue. Oct. 3 @ 8:38 p.m.

Switch our focus to China on high bar this rotation, but we’ll have quick hits of Japan and the U.S. on rings and Canada and Great Britain on vault as well.

Tue. Oct. 3 @ 8:36 p.m.

CAN on rings:

• Rene Cournoyer = 13.533
• Felix Dolci = 13.733
• William Emard = 13.800

GBR on rings:

• Harry Hepworth = Large step on the tucked double-double dismount, but otherwise excellent set. 14.100. 
• James Hall = A bit shaky at times. Tucked double-double, step forward. 13.466.
• Courtney Tulloch = 14.100 – redemptive set for Tulloch who had a rough qualifying across the board.

CHN on parallel bars:

• Sun Wei = Release after release after release, and a stuck double front half. 14.733.
• Lin Chaopan = 14.666
• You Hao = 14.966

Tue. Oct. 3 @ 8:30 p.m.

Refresh for updates on this PH rotation!

Hashimoto Daiki (JPN): Immediately into flaired spindles. So nice. Breaks into scissor handstand. Flop work. Roth. Flair Magyar to Sivado. Handstand dismount – MASSIVE routine. Refreshing construction and a reminder why he is the Olympic AA champion! 14.266.

Khoi Young (USA): Scissor hstd. Busnari and it’s gorgeous. Side flair travel. Flop work. Wu… and falls off! Makes it through the rest of the routine. Unfortunate for him and USA. 13.600.

Chiba Kenta (JPN): Scissor hstd. Busnari. Good. Falls on the flop work. Repeats and it’s good. Wu. Roth. Magyar to Sivado. Very nice handstand dismount. 13.066.

Fred Richard (USA): Fred Richard (USA): Scissor hstd (pikes – not sure if it will pay?). Triple russian in middle. Flair spindles over both handles then again over one handle. More spindle flaired travel work. Magyar to Sivado. Fights for dismount. Can see the judges having a very long discussion. 12.500. They did not credit the scissor so he loses the skill value and the EG value.

Kaya Kazuma (JPN): Scissor hstd – strengths it. Sohn (I think). Flop work – good. Into flair side travel. Wu. Magyar to Sivado. Roth. Good handstand dismount to finish. One of the BIGGEST pommel celebrations I have seen. I am screaming with him. 14.200.

Yul Moldauer (USA): Scissor in. Scissor hstd. Good flop work. Into the flair spindles. Flair side travel. Flair Magyar to Sivado. Into dismount and with one of the best pommel saves I have ever seen on his pirouettes. Omg. 13.533.

Tue. Oct. 3 @ 8:06 p.m.

First rotation notes on GBR, CAN, and CHN:

GBR on horse:

• James Hall off on horse = 11.933
• Jake Jarman follows with a hit = 13.233
• Whitlock hits for a 15.266 (see below for play-by-play).

CAN on horse:

• Zachary Clay starts the Canadians off with a huge 14.200 on horse.
• Jayson Rampersad = 13.833
• Cournoyer = 11.033.

CHN on vault:

• Lin Chaopan – Kas full = 13.733.
• Sun Wei – clean Kas double = 14.866
• Su Weide – another Kas double, step back = 14.700

Tue. Oct. 3 @ 7:55 p.m.

Max Whitlock (GBR) PH: Shaky on the scissor hstd. Good and difficult flop work. Triple russian between handles. More flop work. Busnari – great! Side flair travel. Roth. Wu. Triple russian. Handstand dismount and gets the double pirouette. HUGE. 15.266.

Tue. Oct. 3 @ 7:40 p.m.

Refresh for updates of the Men’s FX rotation! JPN and USA will be alternating routines – it is going to be a fight till the end!

Hong Asher (USA): Front full to front double pike, small hop. Laid-out double-double, small hop. Tuck front full to front double tuck, stuck. 2.5 to front lay, lands with one foot OOB but stuck. Triple twist, bit of an uncontrolled rebound, large hop but seemed to stay in bounds. 13.966.

Minami Kuzuki (JPN): 2.5-twisting double back punch front full, triple-double, front triple twist, 1.5 to 2.5 twist, 2.5 to front double twist, triple twist. Just incredible tumbling. 14.333. Inquiry submitted because they gave him a 6.4 D-score, and that seems wrong… and it is. They change it to a 6.5 / 14.433.

Frederick Richard (USA): 2.5 twisting double tuck – small hop. Fwd double twist punch layout full. Nice air flair and sequence. Nice double double. Stuck bwd double twist. Back 2.5 punch layout. Few steps back on double arabian 1/2 to finish. 14.366.

Hashimoto Daiki (JPN): Double double to open. Nice bwd 3.5. Front full punch 2.5 – big hop. Back double twist. Triple russian. Wide arm press. Bwd 2.5 punch fwd layout (stuck). Bwd triple twist to finish (stuck). Gestures to the crowd to be louder. He is happy. 14.300.

Yul Moldauer (USA): Stuck front 2.5. Stuck fwd double twist punch layout full. Stuck double arabian 1/2. Flair work – great. Back double twist. Stuck. Back 2.5 punch layout – small hop. Tiny hop backwards on his triple twist. Phenomenal.

Chiba Kenta (JPN): Front double pike. Double twist punch layout (almost falls). Front full punch front 2.5 (stuck). Back double twist. Wide arm press. Endo press through. Back 2.5 punch SUPER low tuck 1/2. Almost falls again. Stuck triple twist to finish. 12.933.

Tue. Oct. 3 @ 6:05 p.m.

Welcome to the men’s team final! Competition gets started at 7:30 p.m. Japan, the United States, Great Britain, Canada, Germany, Italy, Switzerland, and China will compete for the title of world champion. Japan is the favorite, and the U.S. is looking to return to the world podium for the first time since winning bronze in 2014.