These 5 Gymnasts Landed Record-Breaking Skills in 2019 and Now Have Moves Bearing Their Names

According to her FIG profile, South Korean gymnast Seojeong Yeo aims to win a gold medal in vault at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics. On vault, the 17-year-old received eighth place at 2019 Worlds and first place at the 2018 Asian Games.

The vault named after Seojeong is a front handspring onto the table with a laid-out flip and two full twists. She performed and landed it at the 2019 Korea Cup, which made the skill eligible for inclusion into the Code of Points.

Emelie Petz, 16, of Germany recently competed at the 2019 World Gymnastics Championships, and though she and her teammates just missed qualifying for the team final, they were able to secure their ticket for the Tokyo 2020 Games (the top nine teams that didn't qualify at last year's Worlds — USA, Russia, and China — qualified this year).

The D-value bar dismount Emelie got named after her this year is something called a "clear straddle circle," which is a circle around the bar in a straddle position into a front flip off of the bar with a full twist in a tucked position. "It's such a nice feeling," she told GymCastic after landing it at 2019 Worlds. "I'm 16 years old and I have my own element on bars. It's named after me, so it's a Petz."

If Simone defends her all-around title at Tokyo 2020, she would be the first female gymnast to do so in 50 years, according to the Olympic Channel. The 22-year-old said after her first Olympic Games in 2016, "I'm not the next Usain Bolt or Michael Phelps: I'm the first Simone Biles."

Simone got two new skills named after her by landing them successfully at 2019 Worlds. There's the Biles on beam, which is a double-twisting double backflip dismount and is worth an H value, or eight-tenths of a point, despite opposition by Simone herself and some corners of the gymnastics world who think it should be worth more. Then, there's the Biles II (or Biles 2), that triple-twisting double backflip on floor you've seen all over the internet since July.

This is Simone's second floor skill named after her — hence the number two in its name — and it's worth a J, or one whole point. A J skill, for the record, is the highest-ever in the Code of Points.

Andrea Maldonado is a Puerto Rican native who just signed on as a junior with the Iowa State Cyclones and will be competing for its Division 1 gymnastics team. She previously spent two years at the University of Puerto Rico.

Andrea successfully landed a front handspring front layout with a triple twist on floor at the 2019 Cottbus World Cup, part of the FIG Apparatus World Cup series. The Maldonado is worth six-tenths of a point, or an F value. "This was the best experience of my gymnastics career," she said. "Having a move named after me is a dream come true."