2026 Worlds Men’s All-Around Results: How Hashimoto Won Gold
Daiki Hashimoto of Japan won the men’s all-around title at the 2026 Gymnastics World Championships in Rotterdam on October 22, scoring 85.998. China’s Yang Haonan took silver with 84.199 and Great Britain’s Joe Fraser won bronze with 83.531.
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The final started from zero, so qualification scores did not carry over. Qualification leader Shinnosuke Oka finished eighth after a low vault score. The results below come from the official all-around final results; the qualification analysis that follows shows how the field looked going in.
Final Results
| Place | Gymnast | Country | Total |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 (gold) | Daiki Hashimoto | Japan | 85.998 |
| 2 (silver) | Yang Haonan | China | 84.199 |
| 3 (bronze) | Joe Fraser | Great Britain | 83.531 |
| 4 | Daniel Marinov | Russia | 83.297 |
| 5 | Ángel Barajas | Colombia | 83.232 |
| 6 | Jake Jarman | Great Britain | 82.865 |
| 7 | Arsenii Dukhno | Russia | 82.697 |
| 8 | Shinnosuke Oka | Japan | 82.165 |
U.S. finishers: Frederick Richard placed ninth with 82.165 and Danila Leykin placed 12th with 79.665. Richard and Oka finished on the same total. Under the FIG tie-break for the all-around final, the higher sum of each gymnast’s five best apparatus scores wins: Oka’s was 69.465 and Richard’s 69.265, so Oka took eighth.
Where the Medals Were Won
Hashimoto beat Yang by 1.799 points, and high bar made most of that gap: Hashimoto’s 14.766 was the best high bar score of the final, 1.233 ahead of Yang’s 13.533. He added 0.600 on pommel horse (14.500 to 13.900). Yang was slightly ahead on floor and rings.
Yang’s silver came from floor and vault. He outscored Fraser by 0.968 across those two events, more than Fraser regained on pommel horse and high bar, and finished 0.668 ahead. Fraser, in turn, held off Marinov by 0.234 for bronze.
High bar also decided the lower places. Across his other five apparatus, Dukhno scored 71.131, only 0.101 below Hashimoto’s 71.232 on the same events. His 11.566 on high bar dropped him to seventh. Oka’s 12.700 on vault, which included a 0.3 penalty, was the second-lowest vault score of the final.
Watch Hashimoto’s Six Routines
| Apparatus | Starts at | Score (rank in the final) | What to watch |
|---|---|---|---|
| Floor exercise | 0:00 | 13.666 (10th) | A hop back, a low landing and a big hop out of the last pass. The commentators call it a tired-looking start by his standards. |
| Pommel horse | About 2:15 | 14.500 (1st) | One off-balance moment that he controls without letting his legs separate. |
| Rings | About 4:25 | 13.900 (3rd) | Still strength holds on what used to be his weaker apparatus. |
| Vault | About 5:45 | 14.466 (3rd) | A hop forward on the landing, which cost him the bonus for a stuck landing. |
| Parallel bars | About 6:55 | 14.700 (1st) | A stuck dismount. This score put him in the lead for the first time. |
| High bar | About 8:55 | 14.766 (1st) | His full set of release moves, although a simpler routine would have been enough to win. |
The scores and ranks are from the official results; the descriptions follow NBC’s commentary. The order explains the shape of the final: Hashimoto was 10th after floor and did not lead until the fifth rotation. NBC’s broadcast calls it his fourth world all-around title in a row.
Qualification Analysis: How the Field Looked Before the Final
The rest of this article is the preview written from qualification, kept for comparison. In qualification, Oka led with 85.098, ahead of Hashimoto on 84.632. Hashimoto gained ground on pommel horse and vault, and Oka recovered it on the other events, with high bar providing the largest difference. Dukhno and Jarman showed how exceptional floor and vault scores can keep a gymnast in contention despite lower totals elsewhere.
The Leading Qualifiers and Their Six-Event Scores
The all-around adds one score from each men’s apparatus: floor exercise, pommel horse, rings, vault, parallel bars and horizontal bar, commonly called high bar. Every event contributes to the total. There is no routine to discard simply because the other five were stronger.
The table reproduces the leading eight athletes marked as qualified in the official men’s all-around qualification report. The rank column retains their positions in the full standings, including the gap caused by Japan’s country limit.
| Qualification rank | Gymnast | Floor | Pommel horse | Rings | Vault | Parallel bars | High bar | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Shinnosuke Oka, Japan | 13.800 | 13.900 | 14.066 | 13.966 | 14.866 | 14.500 | 85.098 |
| 2 | Daiki Hashimoto, Japan | 13.600 | 14.533 | 13.733 | 14.266 | 14.800 | 13.700 | 84.632 |
| 3 | Arsenii Dukhno, Russia | 14.700 | 13.133 | 13.100 | 14.300 | 14.600 | 14.033 | 83.866 |
| 5 | Jake Jarman, Great Britain | 14.133 | 14.033 | 12.833 | 14.900 | 14.466 | 13.333 | 83.698 |
| 6 | Yang Haonan, China | 13.400 | 13.966 | 13.733 | 14.333 | 14.466 | 13.566 | 83.464 |
| 7 | Illia Kovtun, Croatia | 14.000 | 13.400 | 13.100 | 13.966 | 14.900 | 13.733 | 83.099 |
| 8 | Joe Fraser, Great Britain | 13.500 | 13.700 | 13.666 | 13.866 | 14.400 | 13.933 | 83.065 |
| 9 | Ángel Barajas, Colombia | 13.566 | 13.666 | 13.300 | 13.666 | 14.300 | 14.333 | 82.831 |
Dukhno competes for Russia: World Gymnastics’ official results and the final start list show his country code as RUS, although the USA Gymnastics copy of the qualification report prints WG2. Kovtun is listed under Croatia. Keeping those report designations straight matters when checking which gymnasts belong to the same qualifying delegation.
Oka’s lowest score was 13.800. That helped him keep his six-event total ahead even though he did not post the top score on any apparatus in the full qualification field; his best apparatus ranks were third on parallel bars and high bar. An all-around advantage can grow through several solid routines rather than one exceptional score.
Why Oka Led Hashimoto in Qualification
The most revealing comparison is the difference on each event, rather than the two totals alone.
| Apparatus | Oka’s score minus Hashimoto’s | Advantage |
|---|---|---|
| Floor exercise | +0.200 | Oka |
| Pommel horse | −0.633 | Hashimoto |
| Rings | +0.333 | Oka |
| Vault | −0.300 | Hashimoto |
| Parallel bars | +0.066 | Oka |
| High bar | +0.800 | Oka |
| Six-event total | +0.466 | Oka |
These differences are calculated from the published scores. They show why describing the contest only as a close Japanese one-two misses the main scoring story.
Across the five events other than high bar, Hashimoto accumulated 70.932 to Oka’s 70.598. Hashimoto therefore held a 0.334 advantage in that subtotal. Oka’s 0.800 gain on high bar reversed the comparison.
Difficulty alone did not explain that event. Hashimoto received a 6.2 difficulty score on high bar, compared with Oka’s 5.8. But Hashimoto’s execution score was 7.400, while Oka’s was 8.700. The official report also shows a separate 0.1 bonus for Hashimoto, producing the published 13.700 against Oka’s 14.500.
The difficulty score measures the skills and other difficulty points judges count; execution reflects how well the routine was performed. The FIG scoring guide explains how those components and separate adjustments fit together.
High bar turned out to matter in the final too, but the other way round: Hashimoto scored 14.766 there and Oka 13.333.
Dukhno and Jarman Built Their Qualification Totals Differently
Dukhno’s 14.700 on floor was the highest floor score in qualification. His vault, parallel bars and high bar scores also exceeded 14.000. Together, those four events gave him 57.633, which was 0.501 more than Oka earned on the same apparatus.
Pommel horse and rings changed the overall comparison. Dukhno totaled 26.233 across those two events, against Oka’s 27.966. That 1.733 difference was larger than Dukhno’s gain elsewhere, leaving him 1.232 behind overall.
This is a useful way to follow the all-around: compare the same apparatus before comparing totals. A gymnast can be ahead on a selection of events while still needing to recover substantial ground on the rest.
Jarman’s strongest numerical advantage came from vault. His 14.900 was 0.934 above Oka’s first-vault score. Combined with floor, Jarman earned 29.033 to Oka’s 27.766, a 1.267 advantage across those two events.
The other four apparatus reversed that advantage: Jarman was 0.133 ahead on pommel horse but 2.667 behind across the four combined, mostly on rings (12.833 to 14.066) and high bar (13.333 to 14.500). Jarman ultimately finished 1.400 behind the qualification leader.
Jarman’s 14.900 is also different from his 14.633 vault-qualification score, the average of his two vaults (14.900 and 14.366), which tied for first in the apparatus standings. The all-around uses his first vault; the separate vault contest uses two attempts. The vault-scoring explanation covers why the same gymnast can therefore have two different vault numbers in the same round.
The Other Qualifiers and Where They Could Gain Ground
Yang Haonan’s 83.464 placed him between Jarman and Kovtun. His scores ranged from 13.400 on floor to 14.466 on parallel bars, with vault contributing 14.333. That spread of 1.066 matches Oka’s and is far narrower than Jarman’s 2.067 or Kovtun’s 1.800.
Kovtun and Fraser finished only 0.034 apart, but their event scores were less alike than their totals suggest. Kovtun gained 0.600 across floor and vault combined and another 0.500 on parallel bars. Fraser gained 0.300 on pommel horse, 0.566 on rings and 0.200 on high bar. Most of their advantages canceled out.
That comparison illustrates why similar all-around totals do not imply similar routines or strengths. Their positions could change through different parts of the final, even if neither gymnast makes an obvious major mistake.
Barajas scored 14.333 on high bar, his highest apparatus result. His 82.831 all-around total put him 2.267 behind Oka. Colombia’s Camilo Vera followed with 82.764, only 0.067 behind Barajas, giving Colombia two qualifiers near the leading group.
Frederick Richard qualified with 82.098. His parallel bars score of 12.833 was notably lower than his floor score of 14.233 and high bar score of 14.133. That identifies an important event to watch in his next six-event performance, without treating the difference as points he is guaranteed to recover.
These calculations describe where the qualification gaps came from. They were not a predicted final ranking, and the final order was quite different.
Why Fourth-Placed Kawakami Was Not in the Final
Shohei Kawakami scored 83.699, the fourth-highest all-around total. He was only 0.001 ahead of Jarman. Nevertheless, the report labels him NR, meaning NOC reserve, because Oka and Hashimoto occupied Japan’s two available qualifying places.
The 2026 Technical Regulations limit an all-around final to two gymnasts per federation. The qualification list and the final’s eligible field therefore answer different questions. Fourth place in the full ranking did not give Kawakami an automatic place alongside his two teammates.
The report allows specified replacement procedures if a qualified gymnast withdraws. Its Q and NR labels should therefore be read together with the official final start list, rather than treated as a guarantee that every named qualifier will compete. All 24 qualifiers appear in the official final results; the 2026 Worlds guide covers the rest of the championships.
This country limit is separate from apparatus qualification. A gymnast can miss the all-around final and still qualify for an individual apparatus final. The guide to all-around and event finals explains how those routes operate independently.
Questions About the Final
Who won the 2026 men’s all-around world title?
Daiki Hashimoto of Japan, with 85.998. Yang Haonan of China won silver (84.199) and Joe Fraser of Great Britain won bronze (83.531).
Did Oka carry his qualification lead into the final?
No. The final starts with new scores. His 85.098 was what he achieved in qualification, not a starting total for the medal round, and he finished eighth with 82.165.
Is the highest apparatus scorer automatically the all-around favorite?
No. Dukhno led floor qualification, but Oka’s stronger combined scores across all six apparatus produced the higher all-around total. One event cannot describe the full contest.
Can a team-final score replace a qualification score?
No. The team final and all-around final are separate competitions. A strong team-final routine may provide useful context about recent performance, but its points do not enter the all-around final total.
How did the Americans do?
Frederick Richard placed ninth with 82.165, level on points with eighth-placed Oka but behind him on the tie-break. Danila Leykin placed 12th with 79.665.
Final Takeaway
Hashimoto won because he had no weak event: his lowest score was 13.666, and his high bar and pommel horse built a lead no one could close. In qualification, high bar had worked against him; in the final it won him the title.
The all-around rewards six steady routines. One low score, like Dukhno’s high bar or Oka’s vault, can cost a medal even after strong work on the other five apparatus.