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Xfinity U.S. Gymnastics Championships Digital Media Kit

Overview

  • The Xfinity U.S. Gymnastics Championships serve as the sport’s elite artistic national championships and the culmination of the domestic season. The championships will feature the country’s top artistic men and women as they vie for national titles across men’s and women’s junior and senior divisions, and spots on the 2026-27 U.S. National Teams.
  • Among leading athletes expected to compete are Olympic medalists Jade Carey, Stephen Nedoroscik, Frederick Richard and Hezly Rivera. Expected to make their first national championship appearance since 2024 are 2020 Olympians Yul Moldauer and Shane Wiskus. Veteran World Championships medalists include Skye Blakely and Leanne Wong.
  • In addition, the championships will feature top young talent, including 2026 U.S. Classic all-around champion Reese Esponda; 2026 Pan American Championships all-around gold medalist Claire Pease; 2026 Pan Am all-around silver medalist Charliegh Bullock; and 2026 Winter Cup horizontal bar gold medalist and 2025 Junior World Championships horizontal bar silver and parallel bars bronze medalist Danila Leykin.
  • Rivera looks to defend her senior women’s U.S. title, while the men’s all-around gold medal lies open for the taking.

Event Website

Photos – Fair use photos are available for media use when downloaded from the USA Gymnastics Dropbox folder. Credit must be given to USA Gymnastics and watermarks may not be edited or removed. Click here for the Dropbox folder. Audio files of athlete interviews also will be available.

News

Event schedule (all sessions to be followed by interviews as requested; times MST)

  • Thursday, August 6 – 1:00-4:00 p.m. – Junior Men Day 1
  • Thursday, August 6 – 7:00-9:30 p.m. – Senior Men Day 1
  • Friday, August 7 – Noon-2:00 p.m. – Junior Women Day 1
  • Friday, August 7 – 7:00-9:00 p.m. – Senior Women Day 1
  • Saturday, August 8 – 10:30 a.m.-1:00 p.m. – Junior Men Day 2
  • Saturday, August 8 – 4:30-7:00 p.m. – Senior Men Day 2
  • Sunday, August 9 – 10:00 a.m.-Noon – Junior Women Day 2
  • Sunday, August 9 – 3:00-5:00 p.m. – Senior Women Day 2

Broadcast schedule (All times ET)

  • Thursday, August 6 – Senior Men Day 1 – NBCSN/Peacock LIVE – 10:00 p.m.-12:30 a.m.
  • Friday, August 7 – Senior Women Day 1 – NBCSN/Peacock LIVE – 10:00 p.m.-12:00 a.m.
  • Saturday, August 8 – Senior Women Day 1 – NBC (Tape Delay) – 4:00-6:00 p.m.
  • Saturday, August 8 – Senior Men Day 2 – NBCSN/Peacock LIVE – 7:30-10:00 p.m.
  • Sunday, August 9 – Senior Men Day 2 – NBC (Tape Delay) – 1:30-3:30 p.m.
  • Sunday, August 9 – Senior Women Day 2 – NBC/Peacock LIVE – 6:00-8:00 p.m.

Streaming schedule (in U.S.)
FlipNow.tv

  • Wednesday, August 6 – 9:00-11:30 a.m. – Junior Men’s Podium Training
  • Wednesday, August 6 –11:30 a.m.-2:00 p.m. – Senior Men’s Podium Training
  • Wednesday, August 6 – 2:30-5:00 p.m. – Junior Women’s Podium Training
  • Wednesday, August 6 – 5:00-7:30 p.m. – Senior Women’s Podium Training

USA Gymnastics YouTube
All senior sessions will stream on Peacock for those in the U.S.
International feeds for senior sessions are available on YouTube for those outside the U.S.

  • Thursday, August 6 – 1:00-4:00 p.m. – Junior Men’s Day 1
  • Friday, August 7 – Noon-2:00 p.m. – Junior Women Day 1
  • Saturday, August 8 – 10:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m. – Junior Men’s Day 2
  • Sunday, August 9 – 10:00 a.m.-noon – Junior Women Day 2

Athlete entries/bios

Most Championship titles won

Past results/all-around champions

Qualifying Procedures

  • Qualifying procedures for Xfinity U.S. Gymnastics Championships: men
  • Qualifying Procedures for 2026 Senior Artistic World Championships: women; men

Athletes to Watch

Key Bios

    Skye Blakely (Florida Bio)
    Hometown: Frisco, Texas
    Club: University of Florida
    Age: 21
    Blakely is a two-time World champion and eight-time U.S. medalist and will return to the national championships to defend her 2025 uneven bars title. She currently competes for the University of Florida and most recently won gold medals on bars and balance beam at the 2026 U.S. Classic in Hartford.

    Charleigh Bullock
    Hometown: Spotsylvania, Va.
    Club: Capital Gymnastics National Training Center
    Age: 16
    A rising star in the women’s elite program, Bullock has excelled in her debut senior season thus far. Starting with an uneven bars title, all-around silver medal and balance beam bronze at the 2026 Winter Cup this February, Bullock went on to win team silver at the 2026 American Cup in March and team gold and all-around silver at both the 2026 City of Jesolo Trophy in Italy and the 2026 Senior Pan American Championships in Brazil in the spring. The national championships in Phoenix will be her first as a senior, which comes after winning the junior bars title in 2025.

    Jade Carey (OSU Bio)
    Hometown: Phoenix, Ariz.
    Club: Oregon State University Training Center
    Age: 26
    Three-time Olympic and seven-time World medalist Carey heads to U.S. Championships just weeks after winning vault gold and all-around and floor exercise silver at the 2026 U.S. Classic. In her hometown of Phoenix, Carey will aim to return to the U.S. vault podium after winning six national medals on the apparatus since 2017.

    Claire Pease
    Hometown: Sunnyvale, Texas
    Club: WOGA Gymnastics
    Age: 17
    Most recently winning all-around, floor and team gold at this year’s Senior Pan American Championships in May, Pease will return to domestic competition in Phoenix. So far in the 2026 season, Pease has won three medals, including vault gold, at USAG’s Winter Cup in February followed by a team silver medal at American Cup in March. At the 2025 U.S. Championships, Pease won vault silver.

    Hezly Rivera
    Hometown: Oradell, N.J.
    Club: WOGA Gymnastics
    Age: 18
    2024 Olympic team champion and reigning U.S. all-around champion Rivera will head to Arizona for her first full competition since the 2026 American Cup in March – where she was part of the silver medal-winning U.S. team. Before her brief appearance at the 2026 Senior Pan American Championships in Brazil, Rivera won the all-around, beam and floor titles at Winter Cup in February.

    Leanne Wong (Florida Bio)
    Hometown: Kansas City, Mo.
    Club: University of Florida
    Age: 22
    One of the country’s most-decorated athletes, veteran Wong currently boasts five World Championship medals and seven U.S. medals. At the University of Florida, she won seven NCAA medals and is a 29-time All-American. On the elite circuit, she most recently was the 2025 World Championships all-around silver medalist and won the 2025 U.S title on vault.

    Yul Moldauer (Oklahoma bio)
    Hometown: Arvada, Colo.
    Club: University of Oklahoma
    Age: 29
    The most experienced athlete in the men’s lineup, 2020 Olympian and two-time World bronze medalist Moldauer will compete in his ninth national championships of his senior career. He has won 20 U.S. senior medals since 2017, and in his last Championship in 2024, won parallel bars gold and floor silver. This season, Moldauer made his return to compete at Winter Cup where he claimed the parallel bars title and silver in the all-around and on still rings.

    Stephen Nedoroscik (Penn State bio)
    Hometown: Worcester, Mass.
    Club: EVO Gymnastics
    Age: 27
    An overnight sensation after winning two historic Olympic bronze medals in Paris, Nedoroscik will be back on the national stage in Phoenix. The pommel horse specialist has won four U.S. titles on the apparatus, currently tied for the most in history with Jim Hartung and John Rothlisberger. He looks to return to the top of the podium after finishing fifth in 2025.

    Frederick Richard (Michigan bio)
    Hometown: Stoughton, Mass.
    Club: University of Michigan
    Age: 22
    Richard will be the youngest of the men’s Olympians competing in Phoenix and was part of the 2024 Olympic bronze medal-winning team. The 2025 U.S. all-around silver medalist was very successful on the domestic stage this season. At USAG’s Winter Cup, Richard won all-around and floor gold, along with three bronze medals on pommel horse, rings and horizontal bar, and also won the NCAA all-around title in April.

    Shane Wiskus (Minnesota bio)
    Hometown: Spring Park, Minn.
    Club: EVO Gymnastics
    Age: 27
    2020 Olympian Wiskus secured his spot to the national championship after dominating the all-around competition at the 2026 Men’s National Qualifier in Colorado Springs this June. He is a four-time U.S. medalist and looks to again stand on a national podium for the first time since 2022.