GIGA STORY CLIPS

Skye Blakely completed the 2026 World Championships in Rotterdam with four medals, the most of any woman at the competition. The University of Florida gymnast won World AA gold, earned VT and UB bronze and helped the US take team silver. Her four medals tied for the second-most by an American woman at a single World Championships, behind Simone Biles.

Blakely helped the US win World team gold in 2022 and 2023, finishing fifth in the 2022 BB final. She earned three apparatus silver medals at the 2023 US Championships, then finished second in AA and VT and third in UB and BB at the 2024 national championships. A right Achilles tendon tear during training at the 2024 US Olympic Trials ended her participation before competition began.

Blakely made her Florida debut in January 2025, 199 days after the injury, competing primarily on UB during her freshman season. She returned to elite competition that summer, sharing the 2025 US national UB title with Hezly Rivera and earning BB silver. At the 2025 World Championships in Jakarta, she placed fourth in the UB final with 14.333.

Her 2026 sophomore season at Florida marked a significant expansion. Blakely added BB and FX in January, followed by VT and AA in February. She recorded 10.0s on BB and UB, reached a collegiate AA high of 39.750 and earned 11 event titles. Her BB 10.0 made Skye and older sister Sloane the fifth set of sisters in college gymnastics history to earn perfect scores. Blakely shared SEC Specialist of the Year honors, earned national collegiate UB silver with 9.975 and contributed to Florida's third-place team finish. She is now a four-time collegiate All-American.

Returning to the elite season, Blakely won UB and BB at the 2026 US Classic. At the US Championships, she contested elite AA for the first time since 2024, finishing seventh overall and earning UB silver. She subsequently earned selection to her fourth World Championships team.

In Rotterdam, Blakely qualified second in AA with 55.465 and advanced to four individual finals. In the October 21 Team Final, she contributed VT 14.300, UB 14.400 and BB 13.266 as the US earned silver with 165.531, just 0.233 behind China. The result also secured a US women's team berth for LA28, with individual Olympic selection still ahead.

Blakely won the World AA title on October 23 with 55.733, posting the final's highest combined execution score (33.433). She added VT bronze (14.166) and UB bronze (14.600) on October 24, then finished sixth in the BB final (13.633) on October 25.

Her four medals brought her career World Championships total to six. She also became the first gymnast to compete collegiately and win the World AA title in the same calendar year. Her elite record now includes two World team gold medals, a World AA title and a US national UB title, alongside an expanding AA program at Florida.

Leanne Wong has built one of the sport's most consistent bridges between elite and collegiate gymnastics. A two-time World AA silver medalist, two-time Olympic alternate and University of Florida standout, Wong entered the 2025 season with World team titles and NCAA championship success already on her resume.

In 2025, Wong combined veteran precision with a rebuilt elite program. She finished second at the U.S. Championships (111.200), won the national VT title, then earned another U.S. World team selection. At the 2025 World Championships in Jakarta, Wong posted the highest cumulative execution score of the entire AA final (32.866) and took silver at 54.966, just 0.100 behind gold medalist Angelina Melnikova.

That trajectory positions Wong's next Olympic cycle as a case study in staying power.

Wong's 2026 season tested that durability. A wrist injury before the U.S. Classic in July limited her to BB only. She rebuilt toward the U.S. Championships in Phoenix but hyperextended her knee in podium training and withdrew. Wong successfully petitioned to the 2026 U.S. World Team Selection Camp but missed the September 30–October 1 selection event in Crossville while continuing her knee recovery. GIGA's Road to LA28 follows what comes next.