Junnosuke Iwai (born June 12, 2006) is an American artistic gymnast. He is a member of the

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and will compete in collegiate gymnastics for

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Gymnastics career

2024

In early 2024, Iwai competed at the

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and placed first in the junior division. Additionally, he helped Division 3 win the Elite Team Cup. In November, Iwai signed his

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for the

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2025

Iwai began competing at the senior level in 2025. He made his senior debut at the

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, placing fifth in the all-around. During the event finals, he placed second on floor exercise and sixth on parallel bars. As a result he was added to the senior national team. Iwai made his senior international debut at the DTB Pokal Team Challenge alongside

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, 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

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and

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and silver on horizontal bar behind

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. He next competed at the Osijek World Cup where he qualified to the floor exercise and horizontal bar finals, winning silver on the former. In May Iwai was selected as the traveling alternate for the team to compete at the Pan American Championships alongside

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, Asher Hong, Taylor Christopulos,

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, and Joshua Karnes. 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 he qualified for the floor exercise final. 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. During the team final, Iwai contributed scores on all apparatuses minus pommel horse towards the USA's first-place finish. During apparatus finals Iwai won gold on floor exercise and finished eighth and fourth on parallel bars and horizontal bar respectively.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Iwai, Jun 2006 births Living people American male artistic gymnasts Sportspeople from Texas American sportspeople of Japanese descent 21st-century American sportsmen