The 2026 USA Gymnastics Championships run from June 22-27 in Tulsa, Oklahoma, with national champions being crowned in trampoline and tumbling, rhythmic, and acrobatic gymnastics.
In total, more than 1,700 gymnasts will compete at Tulsa’s BOK Center and Arvest Convention Center.
The meet peaks with elite competition from June 25-27 at the BOK Center. Olympians Nicole Ahsinger and Aliaksei Shostak, world champion Ruben Padilla, breakout trampoline star Maia Amano, World Games champion Kaden Brown, history-making rhythmic gymnast Rin Keys, and acro brothers Yaroslav and Vsevolod Ossolodkov are just some of the names to watch for at this multi-discipline meet.
Brown described Gym Champs, as it’s referred, like this: “It’s something so different and unique outside of artistic gymnastics for USA Gymnastics Championships, just so diverse and unique, and it’s acrobatic, rhythmic, and trampling and tumbling, so it’s three completely different disciplines of gymnastics, and it’s just something you truly will not see at any other sporting event anywhere.”
National teams will also be determined, and world championships rosters will be finalized for all of the aforementioned disciplines. Rhythmic Worlds are in August, followed by acro in September and T&T in November.
How to watch the 2026 USA Gymnastics Championships
Thursday-Saturday’s elite competition will stream free on USA Gymnastics’ YouTube Channel and FlipNow.
More information can be found on the meet website. Start lists can be found here.
Four athletes to watch
We caught up with Ruben Padilla, Maia Amano, Kaden Brown, and Rin Keys ahead of Gym Champs. Here’s a little on each athlete.
Ruben Padilla – Trampoline & Double Mini
Ruben Padilla is arguably the best all-around trampoline and tumbling athlete in the world. Unfortunately, there isn’t an individual all-around event in T&T, so he focuses his time on trampoline (No. 1) and double mini (No. 2) and only does tumbling at smaller competitions on occasion.
Some would be surprised to know the three-time double mini world champion doesn’t prioritize the event, but he only trains it “once a week or once every other week.” He trains the big tramp five or six days a week, and of course, that’s the event that could get him to the Olympics. He was the 2024 Olympic alternate behind Shostak, and he’s looking to be on the team in LA — either earning the one spot the U.S. gets no matter what as the host or being one of two men’s athletes if the country can qualify the max spots.
This week, though, the most decorated T&T athlete is looking for redemption at Gym Champs.
The 2025 season was all about having fun for Padilla after the pressure of the 2024 Olympic season led him to almost retire.
Fun for Padilla is pushing boundaries, which led him to break the double mini and trampoline world records last season, but at 2024 Gym Champs he might’ve pushed it too far, being the only athlete to compete all T&T events. Padilla won mixed synchro, but he finished third on double mini and fourth on trampoline and synchro. (He pulled out of the tumbling final.)
While Padilla wants to break the double mini world record again, he’s not planning to do so at Gym Champs — that will wait until, maybe, next week’s Portugal World Cup.
”This year I kind of want some redemption in a sense,” Padilla said.
Maia Amano – Trampoline
Maia Amano is enjoying a breakout season.
Amano comes to Gym Champs having just won the trampoline and mixed synchro titles (the latter with partner Padilla) at the Pan American Championships.
Amano, 22, was born and raised in Hawaii before moving to Huntsville, Alabama, to train at 17. She’s working on her master’s in kinesiology while coaching and training, and while she’s interested in physical therapy, she’s considering a career in nutrition while she tries to compete in trampoline as long as possible.
It makes sense, especially since Amano, who started trampoline “late” at the age of 9, just broke her personal record by over a point at Pan Ams and is looking to become a difficulty trailblazer for the women.
“One of my goals for this year was to break 55 points, but I ended up hitting a score of 55.87, which is approaching 56 plus scores, which would be very competitive internationally.”
At Gym Champs, Amano’s main goal is making the world championships team, which she is expected to do as she currently sits second in the world team qualifying standings. (She only needs to be top four.)
And while the PR was great, Amano wants to show she can score in the 55s regularly, so she’s looking for consistency in Tulsa.
Kaden Brown – Tumbling
Kaden Brown has achieved almost everything he can in tumbling.
The 25-year-old is the six-time reigning U.S. tumbling champion and won the World Games in 2022 — the equivalent of the Olympics for non-Olympic disciplines.
But the key word is almost.
“A world championship gold would be very, very nice,” Brown said. “However, if I were to retire today, would I feel like my athletic career was a disappointment? Absolutely not. I’m very content with what I’ve achieved in the sport, and I’m honestly just going for longevity and just staying healthy and happy and enjoying it. If a world championships win comes out of it, I will be super grateful. If it doesn’t, it doesn’t.”
“Honestly, I’m just happy I’m able to continue competing at this high level and doing as well as I am at this age. I mean, 25 isn’t old, but for the sport, it is kind of old. I mean, the kids call me “Unc,” which just means I’m old, okay? So they call me old, I get it, but I’m like, I’m like 25 which is still so young. So I’m just going to see how long I can do the sport for, and if I’m still enjoying it, I’ll still be doing it.”
Brown is able to maintain his level of difficulty and dominance despite only training four days a week for seven or eight hours total. His head coach Becky Brown — who Brown describes as his second mom — works with his schedule as an athletic trainer.
“I either basically train right before I work, or I train after, and if for some reason I can’t get the four [days in]… we’ll come in on a Saturday or maybe even a Sunday, just so we can get that fourth training.”
Rin Keys – Rhythmic
At only 17, Rin Keys has already had an exceptional career and established herself as the best rhythmic gymnast in the U.S.
Keys is undefeated in domestic competition since 2023. She’s also a two-time U.S. all-around champion and the first U.S. rhythmic gymnast to win medals at both the junior and senior world championships.
“The results just came in,” Keys said when asked about her dominance on the U.S. scene.
Keys, who started gymnastics when she was “around 5.5,” recently graduated from high school and put her own artistic flair on her graduation cap.
“I made my grad cap,” Keys said. “It was really fun, and I just had like so many ideas for my grad cap, so I… it was hard to choose one, but I decided on one of my favorite shows. It’s called “Detective Conan,” and it’s like a really long show, but I’ve been watching it since I was a kid.”
It’s a far different picture than Keys’ early days in the States.
Keys moved to the U.S. from Japan, where she was born, and her mom, Sawako, couldn’t speak English. Her mom also wasn’t used to driving on the highway.
Rin’s coach wanted her to join the competitive team soon after she started the sport. Despite Sawako’s declining — because “I thought three hours in a day, three times in a week practice are too much for 6 years old girl” — the coach was persistent. They gave Rin a month of training, free of charge, and she liked it.
”This is the story how she started,” Sawako said.
“Rin was so shy before she started gymnastics,” Sawako continued. “Also, she couldn’t understand English neither (she went to Japanese preschool). At the beginning, She watched around girls and copy them during lesson. Then she had progressed. Gymnastics give her confident. I totally could not imagine this her future when Rin was 6 years old.”
Rin’s younger sister, Nina, is also a rhythmic gymnast on the U.S. national team. She won three gold medals (team, club, ribbon) at the recent Junior Pan American Championships.
Rin Keys’ “Detective Conan” graduation cap and some of her art work. (Photo credit: Keys family via USA Gymnastics.)
After success on the world stage, Keys’ next step is the Olympics.
”My goals for long term is to make Olympic finals and show my absolute best,” Keys said.
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