U.S. athletes look to make their mark at 2021 Artistic Gymnastics World Championships
Olympic Channel: Home of Team USA to Present Live Event Coverage this Weekend; Additional Coverage on NBC and Peacock this Sunday, Oct. 24 at 1:30 p.m. ET
STAMFORD, Conn. – Oct. 20, 2021 – U.S. men’s and women’s artistic gymnasts are set to take on the world’s best in Kitakyushu, Japan, October 18-24. The 2021 Artistic Gymnastics World Championships, held at Kitakyushu’s General Gymnasium, will kick off with three days of qualifications followed by all-around and individual event finals. A team competition will not be held.
The women’s all-around final will be held Thursday, October 21 at 5:30 a.m. ET followed by the men’s all-around final Friday, October 22 at 5:20 a.m. ET. Individual apparatus finals begin Saturday, October 23 with the women’s uneven bars and vault and men’s floor exercise, pommel horse and still rings, starting at 5 a.m. ET. The women’s balance beam and floor exercise and men’s horizontal bar, parallel bars and vault titles will be awarded on the final day of competition, beginning at 4:30 a.m. ET.
Olympic Channel: Home of Team USA will air the men’s and women’s all-around and event finals live, with same-day delayed coverage of the all-around competitions on NBCSN and additional World Championships coverage set to air October 24 on NBC and stream on Peacock at 1:30 p.m. ET.
NBC Sports’ John Roethlisberger, 2008 Olympic all-around champion Nastia Liukin and two-time Olympic medalist Tim Daggett will call the action.
The American men will be represented by Tokyo Olympians Brody Malone of Belfast, Tenn./Stanford University, Yul Moldauer of Wellington, Colo./5280 Gymnastics and Alec Yoder of Indianapolis, Ind./Ohio State University and World medalist on vault Donnell Whittenburg of Baltimore, Md./Salto Gymnastics (vault). Moldauer is also a World medalist on floor exercise. Still rings specialist Alex Diab of Glen Ellyn, Ill./University of Illinois and pommel horse specialist Stephen Nedoroscik of Worcester, Mass./Penn State University will also look to make their marks on the world stage.
The U.S. women are led by Tokyo Olympics alternates Kayla DiCello of Boyds, Md./Hill’s Gymnastics and Leanne Wong of Overland Park, Kan./Great American Gymnastics Express. They are joined by eMjae Frazier of Erial, N.J./Parkettes National Gymnastics Center and Konnor McClain of Cross Lanes, W.Va./WOGA Gymnastics. All women’s team members are competing in their first senior World Championships.
Only three gymnasts per country may compete on any apparatus, and a maximum of two may qualify to the individual all-around and event finals. The top-eight eligible gymnasts will advance to each championship final.
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