The U.S. women’s gymnastics team won’t be announced until after an October selection camp, but the International Gymnastics Federation has published “nominative” (preliminary) rosters for all nations.
Seven U.S. women are listed, though the final team that competes in Glasgow, Scotland, in the last week of October must be of no more than six women (an alternate may be designated).
The seven “nominative” women are:
Simone Biles -- 2013/14 World all-around champion Gabby Douglas -- 2012 Olympic all-around champion Aly Raisman -- 2012 Olympic floor exercise champion MyKayla Skinner -- 2014 World Championships vault bronze medalist Maggie Nichols -- 2015 P&G Championships all-around runner-up Brenna Dowell -- Traveled to 2013 Worlds but didn’t compete Madison Kocian -- 2014 World Championships team member
Missing is Kyla Ross, the only U.S. woman to make all of the 2012 Olympic, 2013 Worlds and 2014 Worlds teams. Ross, who won silver and bronze in the all-around at the last two Worlds, was 10th in the all-around at the P&G Championships in August. She faces greater competition to make this year’s Worlds team given the returns of Douglas and Raisman and the improvement of Nichols.
Also missing is Bailie Key, who was fourth in the all-around at the P&G Championships. The last time a top-four woman in the U.S. all-around didn’t make that year’s six-woman World Championships team was last year, when Nichols was third at the P&G Championships but suffered a season-ending injury one week later.
In 2011, Mackenzie Caquatto was fourth in the U.S. all-around, made the nominative list and then suffered a team camp injury and missed Worlds.
In 2012, Elizabeth Price finished fourth in the Olympic trials all-around and did not make the five-woman Olympic team.
The final U.S. women’s gymnastics teams for the 2013 and 2014 World Championships were all made up of gymnasts who were on the earlier nominative lists.
The last time a Worlds team member came from outside the nominative list was 2011. That woman was Douglas, when Caquatto was injured.
In 2010, Kytra Hunter also finished fourth in the U.S. all-around, was on the nominative list and didn’t make the team.
That year, the reigning World all-around champion Bridget Sloan came on board from outside the nominative list. Sloan only competed on the balance beam at the earlier 2010 U.S. Championships and worked her way back from injury to ultimately make the Worlds team.
Also of note, Uzbekistan’s Oksana Chusovitina is on the nominative list. Chusovitina, 40, could break the record for most Olympic gymnastics appearances if she makes a seventh Games next year.
Chusovitina has competed for the Soviet Union, Unified Team, Germany and Uzbekistan. She has won 11 World Championship medals and two Olympic medals. All of the hardware since 1992 came on vault.
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