USA Gymnastics and Anaheim Sports announced today that the 2017 P&G Gymnastics Championships, the national championships for men’s and women’s gymnastics, will be held in the city of Anaheim for the first time. It is scheduled for Aug. 17-20, 2017 at Honda Center.
The combination of attendance, community outreach, local corporate support, fan activities, a great venue and athletic excellence made this year’s P&G Championships the most successful since USA Gymnastics introduced the current national championship format in 2005.
Davis Grooms and Kiwan Watts won the junior 15-16 and 17-18 men’s all-around titles, respectively, at the 2015 P&G Gymnastics Championships at Bankers Life Fieldhouse in Indianapolis, wrapping up the four-day national championships of USA Gymnastics.
2015 U.S. men’s all-around gold and silver medalists Sam Mikulak and Donnell Whittenburg headline the U.S. Men’s Team for the 2015 World Championships, Oct. 23-Nov. 1, in Glasgow, Scotland. The 2015-16 Senior Men’s National Team was also named following completion of the P&G Championships.
Sam Mikulak won this third-straight senior men’s all-around championship Sunday at the 2015 P&G Championships in Indianapolis, Ind.
17-year-old Maggie Nichols from Minnesota finished second in all-around behind Simone Biles and is in the running to make the world-championship team that will travel to Scotland in October.
Saturday, in the P&G Gymnastics Championships at Bankers Life Fieldhouse, their first national championship meet since 2012, Aly Raisman finished third in all-around and Gabrielle Douglas fifth.
Dominant. That’s a way to describe Simone Biles’ performance Saturday at the P&G Gymnastics Championships at Bankers Life Fieldhouse. Biles scored a two-day total of 124.1 points in all-around for the national championship in front of 15,370 fans.
Finishing 1, 2, 3 in the junior all-around at the 2015 P&G Championships, Lauren Hernandez, Jazmyn Foberg and Ragan Smith have proven that they can compete on the senior level.