WATCH THE REPLAY: GYMCASTIC LIVE IN ROTTERDAMOur live show from Worlds with Dutch Olympians Bart Deurloo and Eythora Thorsdottir. Replay tickets are on sale for a limited time.GET REPLAY TICKETSNEW YORK CITY · Friday, Dec. 4, 7:00 pm ET (4:00 pm PT) — With special guest Katelyn Ohashi. In-person and streaming tickets. Get NYC ticketsDiscount codes are available on the ticket purchase pages, including Club member discounts.Our full show from the 2026 World Championships women’s all-around final, now free for everyone. Skye Blakely (USA) is the world all-around champion. The 21-year-old Florida Gator won gold in Rotterdam with 55.733, becoming the ninth American woman to win the world all-around title and the first since Simone Biles (USA), and she did it on her own plan, without the Cheng. Liudmila Roshchina took a surprise silver and Ke Qinqin (CHN) won bronze despite a fall on beam. Favorite Kaylia Nemour (ALG) overran the springboard on her opening vault, landing on the safety collar, and fought back to finish fourth, while Claire Pease (USA) was one beam fall away from a medal. Recorded live inside Rotterdam Ahoy the night of the final.
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FULL EPISODE: LISTEN OR WATCH
CHAPTERS
00:00 Intro: the women’s all-around final, now free for everyone
01:07 GymCastic Live Rotterdam: the replay trailer
03:04 Welcome to the women’s all-around final
03:50 Skye Blakely is world all-around champion
06:24 Winning Worlds on her own plan
09:13 Kaylia Nemour’s vault disaster
13:26 Ke Qinqin’s beam is so good she can fall and still medal
14:37 Liudmila Roshchina’s surprise silver
16:06 Claire Pease’s beam fall
18:19 Skye, Florida and the college-elite path
21:41 Skye’s four events
23:27 The world feed problem
24:38 A word from Huel
26:57 Opportunity for comedy: Alena Glotova falls off beam twice
28:06 Best moment: Lisa Vaelen’s straddle full
29:15 Ellie Black performs the beam rage away
30:09 A correction: Gina Pongetti and MedGym
31:14 Club Gym Nerd and GymCastic Live
32:34 The international world peace officer
33:24 Why press row cried for Skye
35:56 Roshchina defeats the beam witch
37:16 Elena Colas and the artistry argument
39:08 Double fulls in the lead group
41:41 Aiko Sugihara, so close
42:33 Alba Petisco’s 54-plus
44:04 Flavia Saraiva and the troll king under the beam
45:20 Claire Pease and Valeri Liukin, in sync
46:22 Giulia Perotti, Sofia Tonelli and Alice Kinsella
48:26 Maiana Prat, Rina Kishi and Breanna Scott
49:23 Letters: Was Nemour’s beam score accurate?
51:23 Should a pause count as a connection?
53:14 What do the Japanese gymnasts yell?
53:36 Live show tips for Rotterdam Ahoy
55:27 Fujitsu and Skye’s lowered beam score
58:03 The floor I helped fix
1:00:21 Under the arena and the kids’ press conference
1:01:21 Goodbye until the live show
HEADLINES
- Skye Blakely (USA) wins the world all-around title with 55.733 on a plan built for 2028: no Cheng, a backup beam series, and the best beam we’ve ever seen from her. Her Florida coach on why it happened at Florida, and how USA Gymnastics’ changes let college athletes stay elite.
- Kaylia Nemour (ALG) overruns the board on her opening vault, lands on the safety collar, scores 12.366 on a layout, and saves bars and beam to finish fourth. Plus the world feed that took forever to show it.
- Liudmila Roshchina hits four for four for silver, Ke Qinqin (CHN) falls on beam and still wins bronze, and Claire Pease (USA) is one beam fall away from a medal.
- Opportunity for comedy: Alena Glotova falls off beam, jumps back on and falls right back off. Best moment: Lisa Vaelen (BEL)‘s side-position straddle full, and Ellie Black (CAN) performs her way past a beam fall. Plus a thank-you to Gina Pongetti of MedGym for caring for Fact Checker.
- Later in the show: the international world peace officer, why press row cried for Skye, Elena Colas (FRA)‘s artistry, Aiko Sugihara (JPN), Alba Petisco (ESP), Flavia Saraiva (BRA), Alice Kinsella (GBR), Claire Pease and Valeri Liukin‘s mirrored beam ritual, and your letters on Fujitsu and Skye’s beam D score, pauses between connections, live show tips and the floor one listener helped fix.
RESULTS
Women’s all-around final, Friday, Oct. 23, Rotterdam Ahoy. Every session in your time zone is on Worlds HQ.
- Skye Blakely (United States) 55.733
- Liudmila Roshchina (WG2 (Russia)) 55.199
- Ke Qinqin (China) 55.032
- Kaylia Nemour (Algeria) 54.998
- Aiko Sugihara (Japan) 54.765
- Elena Colas (France) 54.666
- Claire Pease (United States) 54.232
- Alba Petisco (Spain) 54.198
Who’s on every team: the Rotterdam Worlds Roster Tracker.
WORLDS COVERAGE
- 2026 World Championships Headquarters: every session, every qualified team and gymnast, medal lines and every GymCastic show from Rotterdam
- 2026 World Championships: Women’s All-Around Final (the original Club Gym Nerd episode page)
- 2026 World Championships: Apparatus Finals, Day Two
- Photo Gallery: Women’s All-Around Final, October 23
- 2026 World Championships: Men’s All-Around Final
- 2026 World Championships: Women’s Team Final
- 2026 World Championships: Men’s Team Final
- 2026 World Championships: Women’s Qualification, Day Two
- 2026 World Championships: Women’s Qualification, Day One
- Behind The Scenes: Nemour, BRA, CHN, GB, RUS, CAN, FRA, NED – Podium Training
- 2026 World Championships: Women’s Podium Training, Day One
- Photo Gallery: 2026 World Championships – Podium Training, October 14
- 2026 Worlds Preview Part 2: Andrade, Melnikova & China’s Beam Powerhouse
- 2026 Worlds Preview Part 1: Team USA, Kaylia Nemour & Japan’s Medal Threat
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GYMCASTIC TOOLS, GAMES AND RESOURCES
- *NEW* ROTTERDAM WORLDS ROSTER TRACKER
- Find out who’s competing in the 2026 World Championships — search WAG and MAG by name or country, find out how they qualified and link to their score rankings. Updated daily.
- GymCastic tools:
- LA 2028 Roster Lab — Now with auto-fill highest-scoring team, team comparisons and updated roster briefs.
- Elite Score Explorer — U.S. Championships scores are in, plus new charting options and the vault bonus toggle.
- International Gymnastics Calendar
- GymCastic Games
- GymCastic Newsletters
- The Balance Beam Situation: Spencer Barnes’ GIF Code of Points
- Gymnastics History: Gymnastics history and Code of Points archive from Uncle Tim
- Resistance Resources
- Gymnasts for Change Reception in Rotterdam
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