In about one month, a whole mess of international elites – including dozens and dozens of our favorites – are going to graduate from the junior to senior ranks. I’m sure we can all recall the debuts of some of these kids, especially those who burst onto the scene with insane talent and potential, and now here they are, all grown up and age-eligible for senior international competition?!
More than that, all of the gymnasts listed below will turn 16 just in time to compete at the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and some of them will absolutely be game changers, especially for those countries that have yet to qualify at the test event in April. Below are about 250 gymnasts all born in the year 2000, listed in alphabetical order by country. Did we leave anyone behind? Let us know in the comments! Who are you most excited to see?
| ALGERIA | |
| Zineb Mama Ayad | Chama Temmami |
| ARGENTINA | |
| Tamara Casco Valentina Contreras Lara Dzikovski |
Erika Kleiman Julieta Kornblau Mayra Vaquie |
| ARMENIA | |
| Anna Ghazaryan | |
| AUSTRALIA | |
| Yasmin Collier Alysha Djuric Paige James |
Emi Watterson Emily Whitehead |
| AUSTRIA | |
| Linda Hamersak Lara König Jacqueline Kotrnetz |
Tamara Stadelmann Beatrice Stritzl |
| BELARUS | |
| Mariya Kaminskaya | Katsiaryna Valnova |
| BELGIUM | |
| Senna Deriks Nina Derwael Eugenie Duran Amalia Heine |
Axelle Klinckaert Emma Medina-Severino Julie Meyers |
| BERMUDA | |
| Sadia Wilson | |
| BOLIVIA | |
| Roxana Cruz | |
| BRAZIL | |
| Leticia Goncalves Carolyne Pedro |
Luana Silva Raquel Silva |
| BULGARIA | |
| Greta Banishka Denitsa Ivanova |
Denislava Todorova Elizabet Vasileva |
| CANADA | |
| Seina Cho Laurie Denommee Madyson Ferron-McCaffrey Madeline McLellan Shallon Olsen Megan Roberts |
Meaghan Ruttan Myah Sisson Laurie-Lou Vezina Rose-Kaying Woo Sonita Zlobec |
| CHILE | |
| Maria del Sol Perez | Fernanda Zepeda |
| CHINA | |
| Fu Yuyao Gong Kangyi Hua Ruixue Liu Jinru Liu Tingting Lu Yufei |
Luo Huan Lyu Jiaqi Wu Jing Zhang Jin Zhou Linlin |
| COLOMBIA | |
| Angie Quintana | |
| COSTA RICA | |
| Mariangeles Murillo | |
| CROATIA | |
| Mia Ivancevic Dora Kranzelic |
Jana Vraslovic |
| CZECH REPUBLIC | |
| Barbora Fiserova Marie Kuhnova Marie Nevrklova |
Katerina Orsagova Zuzana Sustakova |
| DENMARK | |
| Victoria Gilberg | Clara Meincke |
| EGYPT | |
| Hya Anis Rahaf Armia Zaharia |
Jana Hassan |
| FINLAND | |
| Riina Kaleva | |
| FRANCE | |
| Juliette Bossu Marine Boyer Amara Cipollina Mathilde Dal Zovo Melanie de Jesus dos Santos Coline Devillard |
Romane Geffard Oréane Lechenault Alison Lepin Fiona Oke Océane Pause Alix Scandella |
| GEORGIA | |
| Niniko Gomareli Magda Robakidze |
Ekaterina Tiunina |
| GERMANY | |
| Tabea Alt Maike Enderle Amélie Föllinger Florine Harder Johanna Himmel |
Carina Kröll Rebecca Matzon Lina Philipp Sarah Sonnenschein Lea Wolff |
| GREAT BRITAIN | |
| Claudia Barkes Georgia-Mae Fenton Teal Grindle |
Catherine Lyons Abigail Solari Phoebe Turner |
| HONG KONG | |
| Chun Mei Cheung | |
| HUNGARY | |
| Julianna Csanyi Zsofia Kovacs |
Dora Szekely |
| ICELAND | |
| Thelma Adalsteinsdottir Nanna Gudmundsdottir Inga Sigurdardottir |
Tekla Thorarensen Andrea Thorvaldsdottir |
| INDIA | |
| Payel Das | Ruby Yadav |
| IRELAND | |
| Emmeline Anghileri Casey Jo Bell |
Hannah Morrison Emer Shimizu |
| ISRAEL | |
| Yahli Shalit | Michal Tocker |
| ITALY | |
| Sofia Busato Desiree Carofiglio Clara Colombo |
Giada Grisetti Michela Redemagni Pilar Rubagotti |
| JAPAN | |
| Koko Dobashi Nagi Kajita |
Sayaka Yatabe |
| JORDAN | |
| Tala Haddad | |
| LATVIA | |
| Valerija Degtiva | Nikola Melne |
| LITHUANIA | |
| Diana Balkyte | Agata Vostruchovaite |
| MALTA | |
| Sana Grillo | |
| MEXICO | |
| Ximena Amezcua Paulina Campos Nicolle Castro Aida Naomi Cruz Jessica Gutierrez |
Victoria Mata Kenia Elizam Resendiz Cinthia Ruiz Andrea Ruvalcaba Mariana Tejada |
| NAMIBIA | |
| Abigail Carew | |
| NETHERLANDS | |
| Noa Claver Olessya Dadema Mirte de Reiger Bente Kruizinga Mandy Mohamed Esmee Parinussa |
Sering Perdok Kirsten Polderman Morgan Spruijtenburg Christine Tol Eline Vos |
| NORWAY | |
| Victoria Boe Linn Finstad Pernille Gulbrandsen |
Ingrid Hafenbradl Martine Magnussen |
| PANAMA | |
| Carol Batista | |
| PERU | |
| Lia Parado | |
| PHILIPPINES | |
| Katrina Evangelista | |
| POLAND | |
| Malgorzata Bulanda | Sandra Wojtkiewicz |
| PORTUGAL | |
| Leonor Feijo | Mariana Marianito |
| PUERTO RICO | |
| Andrea Oliveras | Sonja Paris |
| ROMANIA | |
| Anda Butuc Andreea Ciurusniuc Adela Florea Maria Holbura |
Stefania Orzu Asiana Peng Denisa Stanciu Cristina Vrabie |
| RUSSIA | |
| Natalia Kapitonova Elena Likhodolskaia Angelina Melnikova |
Daria Skrpynik Ekaterina Sokova |
| SINGAPORE | |
| Felicia Kee | Sze En Tan |
| SLOVENIA | |
| Hana Kekic Lara Omahen Alenka Pipus |
Neli Struc Lina Vodnik Lana Voler |
| SOUTH AFRICA | |
| Aatiqah Abrahams Logan Lawrence |
Lukisha Schalk |
| SOUTH KOREA | |
| Hye Su An Hanbyeol Gu |
Eun Ji Kim Go Im Lee |
| SPAIN | |
| Laura Bechdeju Helena Bonilla Paula Norberto |
Ana Palacios Mariona Ros |
| SRI LANKA | |
| Amaya Kalukottage | |
| SWEDEN | |
| Ellen Haavisto Emmy Haavisto |
Elin Sandberg |
| SWITZERLAND | |
| Thea Brogli Rebekka Schuster Anja Schwarz |
Maeva Stefanutto Lisa Teoldi |
| TAIPEI | |
| Chang Tzu-Ling | Huang Yu-Yu |
| TURKEY | |
| Cagla Altundemir Sudenur Demir |
Beyza Türkmen Ekin Ulvan |
| UKRAINE | |
| Yana Horokhova | Alisa Zadvorna |
| UNITED STATES | |
| Christina Desiderio Norah Flatley Jazmyn Foberg Margzetta Frazier Emily Gaskins Laurie Hernandez |
Sydney Johnson-Scharpf Abby Paulson Grace Quinn Ragan Smith Olivia Trautman |
| UZBEKISTAN | |
| Sabina Khudieva | Ksenia Kim |
| VIETNAM | |
| Bui Nguyen Hai Yen | |
Giada Grisetti is actually from Switzerland!
And Chiara Gander retired last year…
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Thanks, I’ll take Gander off the list…and Grisetti actually just changed her nationality in the past couple of months! Her coach moved to Italy and she followed.
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She might still be waiting for the change of nation to go through officially but she should begin competing for Italy next year.
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Luo Huan is another new senior for China.
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Netherlands: Morgan Spruijtenburg and Bente Kruizinga have retired 😦 .
Olessya Dadema isn’t a member of the national team, and given her results so far, i’m afraid she won’t be on the team in the near future.
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Taipei isn’t a country….
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For the purposes of Olympic competition, Chinese Taipei is separate from the country of China which is why athletes from Taiwan are listed under Taipei for the purposes of international competition in Olympic sports. Taiwan isn’t recognized as a country on its own and is still claimed as a province by China, but in international organizations (including sports) Taiwanese people are recognized as being from Chinese Taipei and compete for this entity rather than for China.
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Actually, Taiwan is generally recognized as an independent nation, in spite of the fact that China still wants to claim it.
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VERY excited about the GBR girls, especially Lyons!
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For France, Amara Cipollina and Romane Geffard are retired
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Thank you!
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Leanne Bourgeois for France too
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Angelina Melnikova is definitely the best new senior so far. She has played all junior competitions this year and last.
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Aya Meggs from Australia
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Thanks!
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I’m excited to see my talented sister casey bell for Ireland
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Aww, love to hear that! Best of luck to her!
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Sweden: no elite gymnasts turning senior next year 😦
The Haavisto twins have retired.
Elin Sandberg isn’t on the national team, most likely retired (no results since April 2014…).
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Oh, bummer!! I’ve loved the Haavisto twins since they were 12! Too bad, they were lovely.
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you do not have Carol Batista (2000) from Panama
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