Alec Yoder of Indianapolis, Ind./InterActive Academy, won the all-around bronze medal at the 2014 Youth Olympic Games in Nanjing, China.  He will compete in the event finals for pommel horse and parallel bars on Aug. 23-24, respectively. NBC, NBCSN and Universal Sports combined will air 54.5 hours of coverage of the Youth Olympic Games. In addition, fans can watch the action live at Olympic.org, Olympic.tv, YouTube.com/Olympics and the Olympic TV App. 

 

Yoder nailed his horizontal bar routine, earning the highest score of 13.850, to clinch the bronze medal with his 82.800 total. Britain’s Giamni Regini-Moran won the all-around title at 84.725, followed by Russia’s Nikita Nagornyy at 83.050.  

 

Yoder’s other individual event scores were:  floor exercise, 13.650; pommel horse, 14.100; still rings, 13.100; vault, 14.250; and parallel bars, 13.850.  He had the highest score on pommel horse, tied for the top mark on high bar, and tied for third best on parallel bars

 

The gymnastics competition schedule is as follows. The USA is also competing in individual rhythmic gymnastics and men’s and women’s trampoline. Nanning is 12 hours ahead of the U.S. Eastern time zone.

Aug. 20       Women’s gymnastics all-around final: 7-9:40 p.m., China, 7-9:40 a.m. ET

Aug. 21       Trampoline qualification and final: women: 1:30-3:20 p.m., China; 1:30-3:20 a.m. ET

Aug. 22       Trampoline qualification and final: men: 1:30-3:10 p.m., China; 1:30-3:10 a.m. ET

Aug. 23       Men’s and women’s gymnastics individual event finals (men – floor exercise, pommel horse and still rings; women – vault and uneven bars): 7-10 p.m., China; 7-10 a.m. ET

Aug. 24       Men’s and women’s gymnastics individual event finals (men – vault, parallel bars and horizontal bar; women – balance beam and floor exercise): 7-10:05 p.m., China; 7-10:05 a.m. ET

Aug. 26       Qualification for rhythmic gymnastics individual and group all-around: 9 a.m.-1 p.m. (individual, hoop and ball), 12:30-4:30 p.m. (individual, clubs and ribbon), 5-8 p.m.(group, hoop and clubs), China; 11 p.m.-1 a.m., 2:30-4:30 a.m., 7-8 a.m. ET

Aug. 27       Finals for rhythmic gymnastics individual and group all-around: 1:30-3:30 p.m.(individual), 7-7:40 p.m. (group), China; 2:30-3:40 a.m., 7-7:50 a.m. ET

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