Skye Blakely scored 55.733 to win the women's all-around at the 2026 World Championships in Rotterdam, capping a comeback from a ruptured Achilles tendon that ended her 2024 Olympic bid, while China took team gold ahead of the United States.
Skye Blakely won the women's all-around title at the 2026 World Championships in Rotterdam, scoring 55.733 across four apparatus to finish ahead of Russia's Lyudmila Roshchina on 55.199 and China's Ke Qinqin on 55.032, becoming the first American to win the world all-around crown since Simone Biles in 2023.
The team honours went the other way by a narrow margin, with China taking gold on 165.764 against 165.531 for the United States. In the event finals, Algeria's Kaylia Nemour won uneven bars with 15.333 and balance beam with 14.566, American Claire Pease took the floor title with 13.866, and Blakely added bronze medals on vault and uneven bars.
The title closed a long climb back for the 21-year-old from Dallas. She ruptured her right Achilles tendon in floor training two days before the trials for the 2024 Paris Games, an injury that required surgery, after an earlier elbow ligament tear had derailed her Tokyo Olympic trials bid. During the final she told herself to fight for the version of herself from 2021 and 2024 who could not compete, saying afterwards that she had made every version of herself extremely proud.
The headline scores check out across independent summaries of the championships: the 55.733 total, the 55.199 for Roshchina and the 55.032 for Ke agree between the championships summary and a separate report of the final, and the 0.534-point winning margin matches the arithmetic. The team totals and event-final scores come from the championships summary itself, while the vault and bars bronzes are supported by Associated Press reporting of the apparatus finals and by Blakely's medal record.
For the United States, the result pairs an individual crown with a team silver decided by less than a quarter of a point, and it underlines how widely the Rotterdam honours were shared, with China taking the team title, Nemour sweeping two apparatus golds and Pease winning floor. Blakely's win also resets her own story after two Olympic cycles ended by injury, turning a gymnast who had spent two years rebuilding into the sport's reigning world all-around champion.