Jun Iwai
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| Full name | Junnosuke Iwai | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | June 12, 2006 Japan[1] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Discipline | Men's artistic gymnastics | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Country represented | United States (2025–present (USA)) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| College team | Stanford Cardinal (2026–2029) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Training location | Lewisville, Texas | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Gym | Texas Dreams Gymnastics | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Junnosuke Iwai (born June 12, 2006) is an American artistic gymnast. He is a member of the United States men's national artistic gymnastics team and will compete in collegiate gymnastics for Stanford.
Gymnastics career
[edit]2024
[edit]In early 2024, Iwai competed at the Winter Cup and placed first in the junior division. Additionally, he helped Division 3 win the Elite Team Cup.[2]
In November, Iwai signed his National Letter of Intent for the Stanford Cardinal.[3]
2025
[edit]Iwai began competing at the senior level in 2025. He made his senior debut at the 2025 Winter Cup, placing fifth in the all-around. During the event finals, he placed second on floor exercise and sixth on parallel bars.[4] As a result he was added to the senior national team.[4][5]
Iwai made his senior international debut at the DTB Pokal Team Challenge alongside Riley Loos, Taylor Christopulos, Kiran Mandava, and Kai Uemura. Together they finished as the second-placed team behind Japan. Individually Iwai won bronze on floor exercise behind Artem Dolgopyat and Lorenzo Minh Casali and silver on horizontal bar behind Yumin Abbadini.[6] He next competed at the Osijek World Cup where he qualified to the floor exercise and horizontal bar finals,[7] winning silver on the former.[8] In May Iwai was selected as the traveling alternate for the team to compete at the Pan American Championships alongside Taylor Burkhart, Asher Hong, Taylor Christopulos, Brandon Dang, and Joshua Karnes.[9] Prior to the start of the qualification round teammate Hong fell sick and Iwai was substituted in. He helped the USA qualify for the team final in first place and individually he qualified for the floor exercise final.[10] However, during the qualification round teammate Burkhart tweaked his back and had to withdraw from apparatus finals, leading Iwai to qualify additionally to the parallel bars and horizontal bar finals.[11] During the team final, Iwai contributed scores on all apparatuses minus pommel horse towards the USA's first place finish and won two golds in the team and floor exercise.[12]
Competitive history
[edit]| Year | Event | Team | AA | FX | PH | SR | VT | PB | HB |
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| 2024 | Elite Team Cup |  |
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| Winter Cup | |
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5 | |
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| Senior | |||||||||
| 2025 | Winter Cup | 5 | |
17 | 11 | 6 | 11 | ||
| DTB Pokal Team Challenge | |
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| Osijek World Cup | |
8 | |||||||
| Pan American Championships | |
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8 | 4 | |||||
References
[edit]- ^ "FIG Profile: Junnosuke Iwai". International Gymnastics Federation.
- ^ "Iwai claims all-around gold; Region 3 wins team title at USA Gymnastics Elite Team Cup". USA Gymnastics. February 24, 2024.
- ^ @StanfordMGym (November 14, 2024). "Signed ✍️🌲 Welcome to The Farm, Junnosuke Iwai!" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
- ^ a b "Loos clinches all-around, floor and rings titles; 2025 Senior Men's National Team Presented by Xfinity named at Winter Cup". USA Gymnastics. February 23, 2025.
- ^ "Stanford Heads to Happy Valley". Stanford Cardinal. February 27, 2025.
- ^ "2025 DTB Pokal Team Challenge Men's Results". The Gymternet. March 31, 2025.
- ^ @USAGym (April 11, 2025). "Jun finishes seventh in High Bar qualifying and will advance to Sunday's final (in addition to tomorrow's Floor final!)" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
- ^ "Weekend Recap: MAG/WAG Osijek World Cup, WAG City of Jesolo Trophy". USA Gymnastics. April 14, 2025.
- ^ "U.S. men's program announces roster for 2025 Senior Pan American Championships, World University Games". USA Gymnastics. May 7, 2025.
- ^ "Karnes wins all-around silver, U.S. men strong in qualifying at 2025 Senior Pan American Championships". USA Gymnastics. June 12, 2025.
- ^ @USAGym (June 13, 2025). "Taylor Burkhart will not compete in the team final, replacement athlete Asher Hong will compete on Saturday" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
- ^ "U.S. sweeps team titles at Senior Pan Am Championships". USA Gymnastics. June 14, 2025. Retrieved June 14, 2025.
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