Maia Amano and Ruben Padilla won one last gold Sunday for the U.S. as the delegation took team bronze to conclude the 2026 Pan American Championships.
MEDELLIN, Colombia (May 24, 2026) – Maia Amano (Honolulu, Hawaii/Merino Trampoline Gymnastics Academy) and Ruben Padilla (Bluffdale, Utah/Wasatch Trampoline & Tumbling) won one last gold Sunday for the U.S. as the delegation took team bronze to conclude the 2026 Pan American Championships.
Amano and Padilla took the mixed synchronized trampoline title in Medellin with a 50.380 to bring the U.S. medal tally over the weekend to eight, five of them gold from all senior trampoline finals during the competition. Canada took mixed synchro silver (46.270) and Argentina bronze (44.950). The mixed synchro pair of Sarah Webster (Valley View, Texas/Trampoline and Tumbling Express) and Elijah Vogel (Longmont, Colo./Xtreme Altitude Gymnastics) finished second in qualifying with a 47.730.
The American delegation also collected team bronze Sunday afternoon, scoring 19 points to stand on the podium behind first-place Colombia (28) and Brazil in second (19). Scores were determined from an individual trampoline session on Sunday.
A complete U.S. medal count is listed below.
2026 Trampoline Pan American Championship Medal Table
Total: 8
Gold (5)
– Ruben Padilla, men’s individual
– Maia Amano, women’s individual
– Ruben Padilla and Elijah Vogel, men’s synchronized
– Ava DeHanes and Leah Garafalo, women’s synchronized
– Maia Amano and Ruben Padilla, mixed synchronized
Silver (2)
– Aliaksei Shostak, men’s individual
– Leah Garafalo, women’s individual
Bronze (1)
– Team
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