We haven’t done a proper Elite Power Ranking since right before the Paris Olympics. A lot has happened since then and a lot of the names that dominated the top of our list fifteen months ago are taking this World Championships off. What makes this list tricky is that we’re only considering gymnasts we expect to see compete at the World Championships in Jakarta and then we have to consider who we think will medal, how dominant are they on an apparatus or multiple, how consistent are they and more. So while Simone Biles and Rebeca Andrade would obviously hold their spots on this list if they were actively competing, we have also left off gymnasts who have been recently active like Manila Esposito and Shoko Miyata because they won’t be competing in Jakarta.
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Previous Ranking: 6
Kaylia is the only athlete with an individual Olympic gold in the Worlds field. She’s the bars favorite and a contender for all-around and balance beam medals.
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Melnikova is by far the most decorated athlete in the Worlds field with the highest proven all-around scoring potential. She’s also the 2021 World All-Around Champion with a total collection of 7 world and 4 Olympic medals. She recently posted on social media that she’s dealing with a knee injury so that is something to watch.
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Previous Ranking: 10
Zhou has been so close for years. She’s the 2023 and 2024 balance beam silver medalist, the current world leader on beam and the pre-meet favorite for to finally capture that gold medal.
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While Nemour is the favorite for bars gold based on her history and potential, Yang Fanyuwei is the true challenger to her bars throne. You might remember her from her eponymous Jaeger full which she got named after herself earlier this year.
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Previous Ranking: 19
The last time Leanne appeared in the top 20 of our World Elite Power ranking list was in 2023. Leanne is the 2025 U.S. leader in the all-around (healthy category) on 56.100, and she’s the world vault leader. No stranger to the Worlds stage, she holds two team gold medals from 2022 and 2023 a bronze on floor in 2021 where she also took home the all-around silver.
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From what we’ve seen, Lyudmila is probably the most well-rounded of the new AIN Russians and is a spoiler pick for medals. Don’t be surprised if you see her name above Melnikova’s when the dust settles in Jakarta.
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Previous Ranking: 11
Coming off an historic Brazilian bronze team performance at the Paris Olympics, might this be the year Flavia gets her Worlds beam medal? With many of her peers not competing at worlds this year it could be her time if she just continues to do Flavia things on beam.
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Zhang is the Chinese all-around champion and broke 56 at trials–a huge score that could be on the podium if all things go as planned.
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Previous Ranking: 20
Josc was last ranked 20 back in 2023. In 2025 she’s the world D-score leader on floor, and she brought back the Cheng at U.S. camp to put herself in the vault medal mix as well.
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Anna is the only person with a 57-plus all-around score this year (granted it’s a highly questionable Russian Cup score). Nonetheless, she’s the most powerful of the AIN Russians with handspring Rudi on vault and a double layout full on floor. The big question is whether or not we’ll see her do the all-around.
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While Kalmykova has a questionable all-around score inside her home country, Sugihara Aiko is the only person to have broken 14 on floor outside of her home country this year. If she can repeat that in Jakarta she could be collecting some hardware.
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Amazingly, for a variety of circumstances Skye has never made our top 20 ranking before. She was on our list to make the 2024 Paris Olympic team prior to her injury at trials. Now she’s back competing on bars and beam and is the highest scoring U.S. athlete (outside of vault) this year when she stays on.
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Previous Ranking: 12
The 30-year-old Canadian legend hasn’t lost a step. He competed in her first Olympics back in 2012 and placed 13 all-around at her first World Championships in 2013. Then in 2017 she achieved her became the silver all-around medalist at the Montreal World Championships and then helped Canada grab a historic team bronze in 2022, where she grabbed a balance beam silver. After competing in her fourth Olympics in Paris, this will be her 9th World Championships and she’s always a threat to medal when she puts on her competition leotard.
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If you’re looking for a rising star, it would hard to find a brighter one than Giulia Perott. She’s the Italian national all-around champion and perhaps even more impressive is she defeated Nemour there–our No. 1-ranked gymnast–going over 14.5 on both bars and beam.
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Hwang Seohyun won the Asian Championships balance beam title with a massive 14.633 in a stout field that included none other than Zhou Yaqin–our No. 3-ranked gymnast! Hwang is another new senior ready to turn heads on the biggest stage of the year.
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Previous Ranking: 14
We don’t need to rehash what happened at the Paris Olympics other than to say that Voinea is very capable of winning a world floor title with a hit. Adding to her aptitude is that in addition to her floor difficulty, she also has a beam D that few others can match.
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If you want someone to root for Deng Yalan is your gymnast. She’s making her first World Championships at 26 and has the difficulty to be a favorite for a vault medal. (Somewhere Jessica is screaming that Deng is the reason the individual Worlds are the best).
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Ruby is still carrying the flag for Team Amanar, and it could be the thing that puts her over the top in the all-around. With a very unpredictable field, finding those extra tenths could result in hardware.
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Leila Vasileva has tons of potential, especially on uneven bars. The knock has been her consistency. However, if she’s on one of her good days…
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With her sister taking a pass on Worlds this year (Alice was ranked No. 9 on our last list), Asia creeps into the conversation for a bars medal or more!
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The American dark horse, Dulcy upset all expectations at U.S. camp by scoring more than a point higher in the all-around than she ever had before. Is she the gymnast out of the entire field peaking highest at the most opportune time? We’re excited to see if she can she do it again.
Preview World Elite Power Ranking
Honorable Mentions: Kishi Rina, Emma Fioravanti, Okamura Mana, Nakamura Haruka, Lia-Monica Fontaine, Sanna Veerman, Julia Coutinho, Denisa Golgota, Morgane Osyssek, Lorette Charpy, Ming Van Eijken, Karina Schoenmaier
Power Ranking was composed by Spencer Barnes and edited by Steve Cooper
