Ellie Black

The FIG has released the nominative rosters for this year’s world championships, which begin September 30 in Antwerp, Belgium.

Though we’ve known who to expect on the individual level thanks to the continental and world cup qualifiers held earlier in the season, many of the teams that have qualified are still in the process of selecting the athletes who will represent each country, and the nominative rosters are our first glimpse into what we might expect.

We’ve been tracking the qualification process for both the women’s field and the men’s field since the first teams qualified at last year’s world championships, so be sure to check out those links so you can see how everyone earned their spots, as well as the teams that have been officially confirmed by their federations. We update these lists regularly, and those pages are where all of the final teams will live.

In the meantime, below you can view the nominative registration, which includes much of the above, but also the athletes who have not yet been confirmed. For the most part, what you see here will be what you can expect at worlds, but in some cases – like with the United States, Brazil, and Germany, for example – there are likely to be many changes still to come based on upcoming trial events.

Most notably missing on the nominative roster despite qualifying – and still being listed on the FIG’s lists of qualifiers – are Isaac Nuñez of Mexico and Paloma Mintcheva of Bulgaria. Mintcheva, who trains at WOGA, was expected to compete as a guest at the U.S. Classic earlier this month, but she was injured in training and withdrew, and I assume this injury is also keeping her out of worlds. I haven’t seen any recent updates about Nuñez, who finished fifth all-around at Pan Ams and went on to win the pommel horse and parallel bars titles at the Central American & Caribbean Games a few weeks later, and would have been a strong contender for an individual Olympics berth.

The full list of athletes registered on the nominative roster is below.

Article by Lauren Hopkins