Hezly Rivera, who trains at WOGA in Plano, has gone back to back at the 2026 Xfinity U.S. Gymnastics Championships in Phoenix, Arizona.<\/p>\n
Rivera, who won Olympic gold at the Paris Olympics in 2024, was among more than 100 of the country’s best men and women athletes for the championships August 6-9. The repeat as all-around U.S. champion was made possible by a historic comeback from the 18 year old. She would rise from fourth place to first after the first night of the two-day competition.<\/p>\n
She is the second woman to repeat as U.S. all-around champion in the last 13 years after Simone Biles, who won a record nine titles.<\/p>\n
Frisco’s own Skye Blakely finished seventh overall in the all-around and won a silver medal on the uneven bars.<\/p>\n
Next on the calendar is the World Championships selection competition from Sept. 29-Oct. 1 in Crossville, Tennessee. After that, the five-woman team will be named for October\u2019s worlds.<\/p>\n
The Championships also serve as a qualifying event for the 2026 Artistic World Championships U.S. team that will compete Oct. 17-25 in Rotterdam, The Netherlands. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hezly Rivera, who trains at WOGA in Plano, has gone back to back at the 2026 Xfinity U.S.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":402511,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[160,162,161,95061],"class_list":["post-402510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-plano","tag-plano","tag-plano-headlines","tag-plano-news","tag-usa-gymnastics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402510","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=402510"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402510\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/402511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=402510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=402510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=402510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}