Frederick Richard Wins World Floor Title in Rotterdam as Andrade Takes Vault Gold

Updated 16:52 UTC: Lan Xingyu of China won the men's still rings title with 14.766 points, completing the first day of apparatus finals in Rotterdam. Eleftherios Petrounias of Greece took silver with 14.333, his fifth world medal on rings, and Artur Avetisyan of Armenia took bronze with 14.233. Shinnosuke Oka of Japan finished fourth with 14.133. Lan, the 2021 world champion on rings, had also led qualifying with 14.733, NBC Sports and Gymnastics Coaching reported.

Updated 15:28 UTC: Kaylia Nemour of Algeria won the women's uneven bars title with 15.333 points, retaining the world title she won in 2025. Helen Kevric of Germany took silver with 14.833, the first silver medal for Germany in this event at a World Championships, and Skye Blakely of the United States took bronze with 14.600, her fourth medal of these championships and her first world medal on bars, Gymnastics Now reported. Elena Colas of France finished fourth with 14.533. The men's still rings final completes the first day of apparatus finals later on Saturday.

ROTTERDAM, Netherlands: Frederick Richard won the men's floor exercise title at the World Artistic Gymnastics Championships on Saturday, scoring 14.633 points at Rotterdam Ahoy to take the first world title of his career. The 22 year old American finished 0.033 points ahead of Britain's Jake Jarman, the defending world champion, in a final that also included the last two Olympic gold medalists on the apparatus. Artem Dolgopyat of Israel took bronze with 14.466.

A title he called in advance

Richard, a University of Michigan graduate, had said on May 5 that he would win a gold medal at these championships, and he delivered in his last routine of the week, NBC Sports reported. "I hope this is a lesson to everybody that you don't have to wait to get the win to say you will be a champion," Richard said after the final. He is the first American man to win a world title on floor since Paul Hamm shared gold in 2003. The win adds a first global title to the bronze medals he won in the team and all-around events at the 2023 World Championships and in the team event at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, and it makes him the first American man since Danell Leyva to win medals in team, all-around and individual apparatus finals across the Olympic Games and World Championships.

Behind the medalists, Ryosuke Doi of Japan finished fourth with 14.366, and Carlos Yulo of the Philippines, second in qualifying with 14.500, finished eighth with 13.233 after a 0.3 penalty.

Andrade takes vault, two medals for the United States

Brazil's Rebeca Andrade won her third world title on vault, scoring 14.466. Claire Pease of the United States took silver with 14.233, her first individual medal at a World Championships at age 17. Skye Blakely, also of the United States, took bronze with 14.166, one day after she won the women's all-around title in the same arena. Lia-Monica Fontaine of Canada was fourth with 14.083, ahead of her teammate Ellie Black with 13.966. Simone Biles watched the finals from the crowd at Rotterdam Ahoy, USA Today reported.

Manukyan leads an Armenian one-three on pommel horse

Hamlet Manukyan of Armenia won the pommel horse title with 15.300. Gabriele Targhetta of Italy took silver with 15.233, and Mamikon Khachatryan of Armenia took bronze with 15.000. Nariman Kurbanov of Kazakhstan finished fourth with 14.933, and Patrick Hoopes of the United States finished fifth on the same score.

The apparatus finals continue later on Saturday with the women's uneven bars and the men's still rings, and they conclude on Sunday with the women's balance beam and floor exercise and the men's vault, parallel bars and high bar.