She’s now got a complete set of World Gymnastics Championships medals.
Gator sophomore Leanne Wong joined the U.S. at the top of the 2022 World Gymnastics Championships awards podium Tuesday to raise their team gold medals.
Last year, Wong won World Championships all-around silver and floor exercise bronze in an all-around and apparatus only event.
The U.S. claimed its sixth consecutive World Championships team gold Tuesday evening in Liverpool. The string of World team golds started in 2011 and continued in the 2014, 2015, 2018, 2019 and now 2022 events.
The team final has three competitors on each apparatus, with all scores counting toward the total. Wong turned in a 13.766 on uneven bars as the U.S. turned in the day’s high total of 42.199 on the event.
The U.S. also led the eight-team final on vault (43.133) and floor exercise (41.833) with its balance beam total (39.399) ranking third for the day. U.S. turned in a final total 166.564 and was joined on the award’s podium by event host Great Britain (163.363) and Canada (160.563).
2022 World Championships Team Final Results<https://live.gymnastics.sport/live/15871/womensfinal.php?app=tm>
Everything School:
Florida is only school with U.S. medalists in 2022 World Championships competition from three different sports on 2022-23 rosters:
Talitha Diggs Track & Field Gold 4×400 relay
Trey Freeman Swimming Gold 4×200 free relay (prelim)
Leanne Wong Gymnastics Gold Team
Emma Weyant won 2022 World Championships bronze in 400 individual medley but will not compete for Florida in 2022-23 due to NCAA transfer rules.
World Championships NCAA Competitors
Four Gators are among the 12 gymnasts on 2023 NCAA rosters who represented the U.S. in the World Championships competition. Utah and Auburn are next with two each.
Three who competed in 2022 NCAA Championships – Jade Carey (Oregon State), Jordan Chiles (UCLA) and Leanne Wong (Florida) – are on the U.S. 2022 Worlds gold-medal team. That is an all-time high as the other six U.S. gymnasts who competed NCAA and Worlds in same calendar year were the lone team members with that double.
Of the Gators currently enrolled at UF, Wong is among four to compete at a World Championships. Morgan Hurd (2017 & 2018), Riley McCusker (2018) and Kayla DiCello (2021) also represented the U.S. in World Championships action. McCusker and Hurd won team gold in 2018. Hurd won the 2017 World Championships’ all-around title and DiCello took all-around bronze in 2021.
About Leanne Wong:
· Won team gold at 2022 World Championships
· 2021 World Championships all-around silver medalist; floor exercise bronze
· One of four replacement gymnasts for U.S. Olympic Gymnastics team and traveled to Tokyo for Summer Games.
· 2022 OOFOS U.S. Gymnastics Championships co-uneven bars champion; tied for fifth on balance beam<https://usagym.org/PDFs/Results/2022/w_22champs_srevents.pdf>
· 2022 U.S. Classic all-around, vault and floor exercise champion<https://myusagym.com/meets/future/83109/results/167126/>
· Member of 2022-23, 2020-21, 2019-20 and 2018-19 U.S. Senior National teams<https://usagym.org/pages/women/history/past_nat_teams_sr.html> and 2018-19 and 2017-18 U.S. Junior National teams<https://usagym.org/pages/women/history/past_nat_teams_jr.html>
· Eight-time All-American in 2022 – four honors in NCAA Championships’ competition was high among freshmen
· 2022 Southeastern Conference balance beam champion (9.975)
· Runner-up in 2022 NCAA Auburn Regional all-around (39.875) with nation’s second highest total of 2022
· Two 10.0s in 2022 – uneven bars (vs Arkansas) and vault (NCAA Auburn Regional final). Owns collegiate best of 9.975 for beam and floor exercise
World Championships’ schedule (all medal-round sessions stream live on NBC’s Peacock)
Oct. 29-30 Women’s Team Qualifications.
Nov. 1 Women’s Team Final – 2:30 p.m. ET
Nov. 3 Women’s All-Around Final – 2:45 p.m. ET
Nov. 5 Women’s Vault & Uneven Bars Final – 9:30 a.m. ET
Nov. 6 Women’s Balance Beam & Floor Exercise Final – 8:30 a.m. ET
