Let’s rank everybody! Continental championships weekend has come and gone, so it’s time to break down the final WAG medal count from the 2025 Pan American Championships.

1. United States – 10

TEAM GOLD
Dulcy Caylor
Jayla Hang
Gabrielle Hardie
Hezly Rivera
Tiana Sumanasekera

ALL-AROUND GOLD
Jayla Hang

UNEVEN BARS GOLD
Gabrielle Hardie

UNEVEN BARS SILVER
Jayla Hang

BALANCE BEAM SILVER
Jayla Hang

FLOOR EXERCISE SILVER
Jayla Hang

ALL-AROUND BRONZE
Hezly Rivera

VAULT BRONZE
Jayla Hang

BALANCE BEAM BRONZE
Hezly Rivera

FLOOR EXERCISE BRONZE
Gabrielle Hardie

So, um, it was mostly the US and Canada.

The first day of competition, which served as qualification and the all-around final, announced that this was going to be the Jayla Hang Championship starring Jayla Hang, brought to you with limited commercial interruption by Jayla Hang. She won the all-around comfortably with 55.300, the top US score this year and best AA total from any of the continental championships.

That all-around title would be the first of a 6-for-6 medal performance for Hang, adding team gold with another all-around performance the next day, and then 3 silvers and a vault bronze across the 4 event finals the following day. Only a beam grab in that final—and a bit of a Weiler-through-molasses in the bars final—spoiled what could have been additional gold medals for Hang.

Hang’s Lopez second vault was also downgraded to pike, though it did not ultimately affect the vault medal standings. Another reason for that Cheng upgrade. The piked 1.5 doesn’t exist anymore, so it can’t get downgraded.

The surprise for the US was Gabrielle Hardie coming through as the next most decorated member of the team in her senior debut, advancing to both of the event finals she was eligible for and coming home with a bars gold and floor bronze to go with her team gold.

Olympian Hezly Rivera also took two individual medals with bronzes in the all-around and the beam final. Her AA bronze came despite a two-fall bars routine that had us thinking this would be another 2024 Classic, but she restored order after that and ultimately just outdid Dulcy Caylor for third thanks to a beam score revision to 13.900, the top beam score of the meet. Though that was not her crowning beam achievement of the competition. It was this thing:

She did a bit of a sequel for her bronze in the beam event final, though as is typical with sequels, it didn’t live up to the original.

In the team final, the US women took gold in a walk, hitting 12-for-12 and winning by more than 13 points over Canada in second (the qualification margin was 6.5 points, mostly because Canada had a much better day). The only question over the US team gold was whether it should have been used as a resting opportunity for Hang to avoid three consecutive days of all-around when Caylor was sitting there doing only one event.

2. Canada – 6

BALANCE BEAM GOLD
Lia Redick

FLOOR EXERCISE GOLD
Lia Monica Fontaine

TEAM SILVER
Gabrielle Black
Lia Monica Fontaine
Alyssa Guerrier Calixte
Lia Redick
Evandra Zlobec

ALL-AROUND SILVER
Lia Monica Fontaine

VAULT SILVER
Lia Monica Fontaine

UNEVEN BARS BRONZE
Lia Monica Fontaine

If not for Hang’s 6-medal performance, the 5-medal performance of Canada’s new senior national champion Lia Monica Fontaine would have been the talk of Panama. Or, the only talk of Panama.

Fontaine defeated the rest of the US team to win silver in the all-around on day 1 and also advanced to all four event finals, taking medals in three of the four with only a beam miss to ruin everything.

The Canadians won the expected silver medal in the team competition—though falls made things way too close for comfort with Brazil and Argentina—and it seemed like the story of the meet would be a lot of silver medals behind the US team. But then the Sunday afternoon event finals came.

Lia Redick scored the first gold of the event for the Canadians by avoiding the liquid beam that felled nearly every other competitor in the event final. Then, her partner in Lia—Lia Monica Fontaine—broke her silver-silver-silver-bronze streak by ending the competition with a title on floor, where her double double tuck and crisp turn completion earned her a 5.8 D score and a pretty comfortable victory.

3. Panama – 1

VAULT GOLD
Karla Navas

For a while, it appeared as though Panama’s team would get stuck in “great job, here’s your handful of air for finishing fifth” territory at their home continental championship, but then Karla Navas showed up in the vault final with a round-off 1/2 on layout full and Yurchenko 1.5.

Navas won gold to put a cap on a really excellent event for Panama where the team qualified in fourth (ahead of Brazil) and advanced six routines into event finals, behind only the US and Canada in that department. Panama’s performance here was much, much stronger than what we typically see from countries of equivalent population and program size/accomplishments, and the 150 team score in qualification would have easily placed top 20 at worlds last quad.

4. Brazil – 1

TEAM BRONZE
Luiza Abel
Julia Coutinho
Thais Fidelis
Rebeca Procopio
Gabriela Barbosa

It was a comeback performance for team bronze for the Brazilians after a rough qualification showing that put then in 5th behind Argentina and Panama. Ultimately, pulling it together on beam is what lifted Brazil back to a more familiar ranking—led by a 13.600 from Thais Fidelis in her comeback competition. While there were a few more 11s in this meet than Brazil would typically be accustomed to, this was a team lacking the nation’s star gymnasts, so a medal of any kind works as a solid result.

Valiant Efforts for Zero Medals

Team Argentina finished 4th and receives commiserations for coming out of this event sans hardware, showing consistently excellent work on beam in particular. That the beam final was denied the presence of Isabella Ajalla shall not be tolerated in this establishment.

Raeya Linton nearly snatched a medal for Jamaica in the vault final, showing two vaults over 9 in execution and reaffirming that the continental championships overall have been a great time for Stanford commits.