This is Leanne Wong’s second consecutive Olympic berth as a replacement athlete
MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. – Rising Gator senior Leanne Wong is heading to Paris as a replacement athlete for the 2024 U.S. Gymnastics Olympic Team. This is Wong’s second Olympic berth, as she was a 2020 replacement athlete for the U.S.’s Tokyo team.
The team was announced following Sunday’s final day of the 2024 Olympic Trials at the Target Center<https://www.targetcenter.com/events/detail/usag> in Minneapolis, Minn. As the Olympic Trials all-around champion, Simone Biles earned the automatic berth on the U.S. roster. The remaining four members of the competing team and the replacement athletes were selected by a committee.
Team USA
Simone Biles
Sunisa Lee
Jordan Chiles
Jade Carey
Hezley Rivera
Leanne Wong – replacement athlete (travel)
Joscelyn Roberson – replacement athlete (travel)
Olympics / Collegiate Connection
Since 1980, 77 different gymnasts represented the U.S. at the Olympics. Ten, including Leanne Wong, earned Olympic berths after completing a collegiate season:
Gymnast
Olympics
Freshman Season
Kathy Johnson Clarke
1980, 1984
1979 at Centenary
Kelly Garrison Steves
1988
1987 at Oklahoma
Mohini Bhardwaj
2004
1998 at UCLA
Alicia Sacramone
2008
2007 at Brown
Anna Li
2012*
2007 at UCLA
MyKayla Skinner
2016*, 2020
2017 at Utah
Leanne Wong
2020*, 2024*
2022 at Florida
Sunisa Lee
2020, 2024
2022 at Auburn
Jordan Chiles
2020, 2024
2022 at Oregon State
Jade Carey
2020, 2024
2022 at UCLA
*replacement athlete
Wong in Sunday’s Competition:
Wong improved on her Day 1 scores Sunday for vault, balance beam and floor exercise, with her uneven bars mark just 0.025 away from Friday’s mark.
She opened the evening with a clean uneven bars performance. Wong made her biggest score improvements on balance beam and floor exercise. She kept deductions to a minimum on beam and had no out-of-bounds to ding Sunday’s floor score. Wong closed her competition landing her Cheng vault to earn the evening’s third-highest vault mark (14.50).
Leanne Wong
Day 1
Day 2
Place
Vault
14.45
14.500
3
Bars
13.925
13.900
5
Beam
13.225
13.650
7
Floor
13.15
13.625
9
All-Around
54.75
55.675
7
Complete Olympic Trials Day 2 Standings<https://myusagym.com/meets/live/90016/results/256771/>
How to Watch:
The Olympics begins Sunday, July 28 for the U.S. Women. Watch action on NBC (Gainesville/Ocala Cox Cable 9) and Peacock<https://www.peacocktv.com/sports>
July 28 Women’s Qualifications (USA in Subdivision 2, starting on balance beam)
July 30 Women’s Team Final 12:15 p.m.
Aug. 3 Women’s All-Around Final 9:30 a.m.
Aug. 4 Apparatus Final Day 1 9 a.m.
Aug. 5 Apparatus Final Day 2 6 a.m.
About Leanne Wong:
Leanne Wong earned her sixth U.S. Senior National Team spot earlier this month at the Xfinity U.S. Gymnastics Championships<https://floridagators.com/news/2024/6/2/gymnastics-trio-of-gators-named-to-us-senior-national-team-advance-to-olympic-trials.aspx>.
Leanne Wong 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019
Wong finished her junior season by claiming the 2024 NCAA uneven bars title<https://youtu.be/LcxHIbe0zYI?si=TRiqidJ1Mb6VMgwo>. She also took second in the all-around and vault to be the only gymnast with three top-2 individual finishes in 2024 NCAA competition. A member of the U.S.’s gold medal team at the 2022 and 2023 World Championships, Wong took all-around silver at the 2021 World Championships. She was in Tokyo as a 2020 U.S. Olympic replacement athlete and again is on Team USA in 2024 as a replacement athlete.
