Over Fourth of July weekend, Americans won 25 medals, including five team gold, internationally in artistic and trampoline and tumbling competition.

T&T Coimbra World Cup and Gym Fest

The U.S. dominated double mini competition in Portugal, winning six medals on the apparatus across the World Cup and international tournament in Coimbra as Ruben Padilla (Bluffdale, Utah/Wasatch Trampoline & Tumbling) broke his own world record for difficulty.

Padilla and Aliah Raga (Denton, Md./Dynamite Gymnastics) clinched both World Cup double mini titles in Coimbra. Padilla deployed a triple-triple dismount to record a difficulty score of 14.0, becoming the first athlete ever to reach the 14-point mark. His total score of 32.000 put him well ahead of Canada’s Gavin Dodd (29.400) and Portugal’s Jose Francisco (29.300). Raga was the women’s champion with a 26.200, ahead of Molly McKenna of Great Britain (25.700) and Canada’s Brooklyn Lee-McMeeken (25.500).

The success continued in junior competition at the Coimbra Gym Fest, where Americans took up four podium spots on double mini and in total accounted for 13 of the United States’ 15 medals in Portugal. Leaving Portugal as Gym Fest DMT champions were Stella Teeter (Quapaw, Okla./Helix Athletics) for the women (24.200) and Michael Carey (Trinity, N.C./Carolina Elite Trampoline Academy) the men (27.200). The U.S. also claimed each of the bronze-medal spots, with Capri McLarty (Rockton, Ill./Gymnastics Academy of Rockford) securing one for the women (24.100) and Ethan Gordon (Charleston, Ill./Phoenix Elite) doing the same on the men’s side (23.700).

Also clinching individual honors were Soren Campbell (West Haven, Utah/Flip Side Tumbling) with a silver medal in men’s tumbling (23.200), Anya Brooks (Ogden, Utah/Northern Star Bounder), winning women’s tumbling bronze with a 20.000, and Matteo Giove (Greensboro, N.C./Ultimate Kids) with a men’s trampoline bronze medal (53.440).

The U.S. juniors also secured six team medals in Gym Fest competition to match the six divisions they competed in. Five gold medals came from the team competition, including:

  • Women’s Double Mini, 145.600: Teeter, McLarty, Eva Sultanov (Foothill Ranch, Calif./World Elite Gymnastics) and Zarah Lugosi (Celina, Texas/Eagles Wings Athletics-Prosper)
  • Men’s Double Mini, 154.100: Carey, Gordon, Giove and Bentley Zillmer (Fishers, Ind./Carolina Elite Trampoline Academy)
  • Women’s Trampoline, 276.820: Lugosi, Nora Simmonds (Monroe, N.J./Garden State Trampoline Academy), Briley Pullin (Yoakum, Texas/ K and L Tumbletown) and Sydney Rosen (Lincroft, N.J./Elite Trampoline Academy)
  • Men’s Trampoline 287.470: Gordon, Giove, Zillmer and Casen Kim (Frisco, Texas/Eagle Gymnastics Academy)
  • Women’s Tumbling, 128.400: Brooks, Sophia Bolos (Farr West, Utah/Northern Star Bounder), Avery Schmidt (Draper, Utah/Wasatch Trampoline & Tumbling) and Ingrid Campbell (Mountain Green, Utah/Northern Star Bounder)

Winning men’s tumbling team silver were Soren Campbell, Zillmer, Brock Ruppert (Rocky Face, Ga./Culprit Athletics) and Mason McConnell (Shepherdstown, W.V./Silver Stars Gymnastics) with a 125.900 behind Great Britain (144.600).

MAG Berlin Junior Team Cup

Led by Julian Cabrera’s five golds, the U.S. junior men earned 10 medals at the 2026 Berlin Junior Team Cup in Germany.

Cabrera (Sarasota, Fla./EVO Gymnastics) was the undisputed star of the show with five gold medals. He was the all-around champion in Age Group 3 (U14) with a 69.900 and also won titles on floor exercise (11.800), still rings (11.500), vault (11.825; 12.300, 11.350) and horizontal bar (11.700).

Azai Tamzil (Davie, Fla./Nova Gymnastics) added two more gold medals to the junior men’s tally with his Age Group 2 (15-16) titles on floor (13.350) and high bar (12.050). Cal Sanchez (Cypress, Texas/Cypress Academy of Gymnastics) joined him in the Age Group 2 medal standings with bronze medals on vault (12.625; 13.550, 11.700) and rings (12.250). Lincoln Dubin (Bellefonte, Pa./EVO Gymnastics) completed the 10-medal haul with his silver medal (12.950) in the Age Group 1 (17-18) floor final.

The young U.S. team of Cabrera, Dubin, Tamzil and Sanchez placed eighth in team competition in Germany. With most other teams featuring a majority of athletes in Age Group 1, the U.S. team featured three athletes under 16 in landing eighth overall with a 222.550. Switzerland won the competition with a 229.150.