Jade Carey

Jade Ashtyn Carey (born May 27, 2000) is an American artistic gymnast who represented the United States at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo.

She competed her first elite uneven bars routine in addition to her routine on balance beam and placed 10th on each apparatus.

However, she only placed 10th all-around due to a fall on uneven bars and a major error on her beam dismount.

In August, Carey competed at the National Championships where she placed sixth in the all-around, earning an automatic national team spot.

She also finished third on vault behind Biles and Jordan Chiles, second on floor exercise behind Biles, 15th on uneven bars, and 9th on balance beam.

On August 20 Carey was named to the team to compete at the Pan American Championships alongside Grace McCallum, Trinity Thomas, Kara Eaker, and Shilese Jones.

There she won gold in the team finals and on vault and floor exercise.

In 2016, Carey competed at the Junior Olympics Nationals where she successfully completed a tucked Kasamatsu full on vault, after which it was named The Carey in the J.O. code of points.

Carey was invited to her first elite level national team camp in late 2016.

Carey began 2017 as a Level 10 gymnast, which is below elite level in USA Gymnastics.

She was invited to The Ranch by national team coordinator Valeri Liukin throughout the start of the year where she qualified for elite status.

Carey made her elite debut at the American Classic at Karolyi Ranch on July 7, 2017.

She only competed on vault, floor, and balance beam but placed first on each of those events.

Later that month, she competed at the 2017 U.S. Classic and once again only competed on vault, floor, and balance beam.

She placed first on vault, where she competed an Amanar and a double-twisting Tsukahara, first on floor, including both a full-twisting double layout (Chusovitina) and double-twisting double tuck (Silivas) in her routine, and fourth on balance beam.

In August, Carey participated in the 2017 U.S. National Gymnastics Championships where she won gold on vault and silver on floor exercise, behind Ragan Smith.

She was named to the national team for the first time.

In September, Carey was selected to represent the United States at the 2017 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships in Montreal alongside Ragan Smith, Morgan Hurd, and Ashton Locklear.

On the first day of competition, Carey competed only on floor and vault.

With clean performances on both, she qualified third for the floor exercise final (14.100), behind Smith and Mai Murakami of Japan, and second for the vault final, behind reigning world champion Maria Paseka of Russia.

During event finals, Carey won the silver medal on both vault and floor exercise, once again finishing behind Paseka and Murakami respectively.

Carey competed at the American Classic in early July in Salt Lake City, Utah.

On July 28, Carey made her elite all-around debut at the 2018 U.S. Classic.

She placed first on vault, where she debuted a Lopez as her new second vault, and second on floor behind Simone Biles, where she debuted a Moors (double-twisting double layout) as her opening pass.

In October, the nominative team roster for the 2018 World Championships in Doha, Qatar was posted.

Carey was noticeably absent despite her strong performances at the previous two competitions.

She was a member of the teams that won gold at the 2019 World Championships, the 2022 World Championships, and the 2018 Pan American Championships.

With a total of eight Olympic and World Championship medals, Carey is the sixth most decorated U.S. female gymnast of all time.

Best known for her abilities on vault and floor exercise, she is the 2020 Olympic champion on floor exercise, a two-time World medalist (2017 silver, 2022 bronze), the 2018 Pan American Champion, and a four-time American national silver medalist (2017–2019, 2022).

On vault she is the 2022 World champion, a two-time World silver medalist (2017, 2019), the 2018 Pan American champion, and a two-time American national champion (2017, 2022).

USAG later revealed that Carey had declined her invitation to the Worlds qualification camp and was going to pursue qualifying for the 2020 Olympics "as an individual through the apparatus World Cup series, which precludes her competing on the 2018 World Team".

As the American team later won the gold medal at the championships and thus qualified to the Olympics, she would have been ineligible to qualify a nominative spot on the World Cup series had she competed in Doha.

In November, USAG announced that Carey would be competing at the Cottbus World Cup.

She qualified second to the vault final behind Rebeca Andrade of Brazil and first to the floor exercise final.

During event finals Carey won silver on vault, once again behind Andrade, and fifth on floor exercise after stepping out of bounds three times.

In February, USA Gymnastics announced that Carey would compete at the Baku and Doha World Cups in March.

In Baku, Carey qualified in first place to the vault final after upgrading her López (start value 5.2) to a Cheng (start value 6.0) and qualified second to the floor exercise final behind Lara Mori of Italy after going out of bounds and performing a watered down routine.

She received the AGF Trophy for having the highest combined execution score in the qualification round.

Carey won the gold medal in the vault final and was the only gymnast to earn execution scores above nine on both of her vaults.

The following day, she competed in the floor exercise final with higher difficulty and won the gold medal ahead of Mori and three-time Olympian Vanessa Ferrari.