The United States has a new men’s all-around gymnastics champion – and Olympic team favorite – and it is rising college senior and rodeo competitor Brody Malone.
The 21-year-old held on to his first-day lead through all six rotations Saturday night to win with a total score of 170.7, 2.75 points ahead of 2017 U.S. champion Yul Moldauer at the U.S. Gymnastics Championships. Shane Wiskus was second entering the final rotation, but two falls on high bar landed him in ninth.
Malone, the two-time reigning NCAA all-around champion for Stanford, fell off pommel horse in his first event of the night after his right arm buckled but was otherwise clean at his first senior-level national championships.