Americans Claire Pease and Reese Esponda Top the Podium on Floor at World Gymnastics Championships
Pease scored 13.866 and Esponda 13.566 as the two 17-year-olds lifted the U.S. medal total to seven.
- On Sunday, October 25, 2026, American teenagers Claire Pease and Reese Esponda secured gold and silver medals in the floor exercise at the Artistic Gymnastics World Championships in Rotterdam, Netherlands.
- The United States finished atop the medal table with eight total medals, including three golds, narrowly edging China in the overall count.
- Gold medalist Pease scored 13.866, while Esponda earned silver with 13.566 and received her medal from two-time Olympic champion Simone Biles during the awards ceremony.
- Elsewhere, Algeria's Kaylia Nemour captured beam gold and China's Jingyuan Zou dominated the parallel bars, securing his third world title.
- Skye Blakely, who won the all-around title earlier in the week, concluded her successful championship run with four total medals after finishing sixth on the beam.
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Radio France Internationale
Pease spins to floor gold as US tops gymnastics medal table
Their medals allowed the United States, who collected eight medals, three of them gold, to edge China for the top spot in the medal count. China finished with seven medals including three golds, the last of them earlier Sunday when Zou Jingyuan continued his domination of the men's parallel bars. In the women's floor event, the 17-year-old Pease scored 13.866. Esponda, also 17, was second 13.566, 0.010 off French 16-year-old Maiana Prat and Bri…
It was the American Claire Pease who won the world title, with a 13.866 points win, ahead of teammate Reese Esponda.
Winnipeg Free Press
Americans Claire Pease and Reese Esponda top the podium on floor at world gymnastics championships
ROTTERDAM, Netherlands (AP) — Claire Pease and Reese Esponda gave the Americans a golden sendoff at the world gymnastics championships, going one-two in the floor exercise on Sunday, the final day of competition.
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