Sydney Barros

Sydney Barros (born February 21, 2005) is an American artistic gymnast and a member of the United States women's national gymnastics team. She was a member of the team that won bronze at the inaugural Junior World Championships.

Sydney Barros
Barros at the 2019 Junior World Championships
Personal information
Full name	Sydney Barros
Country represented	United States
Born	(2005-02-21) February 21, 2005 Atlanta, Georgia
Hometown	Woodstock, Georgia
Residence	Lewisville, Texas
Discipline	Women's artistic gymnastics
Level	Junior International Elite
Years on national team	2018–present (US)
Club	Texas Dreams Gymnastics
College team	UCLA Bruins (verbal commit)[1]
Head coach(es)	Kim Zmeskal
Assistant coach(es)	Chris Burdette
Medal record Representing the  United States Junior World Championships 2019 Győr Team

Early life

Barros was born to Bifredo and Carine Barros in 2005 in Atlanta, Georgia. She has four siblings.[2]

Gymnastics career

HOPEs

2016

In 2016 Baros was part of the HOPEs program. She competed at the 2016 HOPES Championships where she placed second in the all-around behind Konnor McClain. She posted the third highest scores on both vault and floor exercise.[3]

Junior Elite

2017

In 2017 Barros qualified for junior elite status at the KPAC National Qualifier. In late July she competed at the 2017 U.S. Classic where she placed 18th in the all-around.[4] She qualified to compete at the 2017 National Championships where she placed 23rd in the all-around.[5]

2018

In 2018 Barros competed at a verification camp where she placed fourth amongst the juniors behind Sunisa Lee, Kayla DiCello, and Jordan Bowers. Due to her performance she was named to the team to compete at the Junior Pan American Championships; as a result she was also added to the junior national team.[6] Later that month Barros traveled to Italy to compete at the 2018 City of Jesolo Trophy alongside her club teammates Ragan Smith and Emma Malabuyo. While there Barros only competed on floor exercise and vault as her injured her ankle on the latter and withdrew from the remainder of the competition.[7] Due to the injury she also withdrew from the Pan American Championships.[8]

Barros returned to competition to compete at the 2018 U.S. Classic; however she only competed on uneven bars and balance beam, finishing 13th and 31st respectively.[9] She competed the all-around at the 2018 National Championships where after day 1 she was ranked 17th. She withdrew from the second day of competition.[10]

2019

Barros competed at the Parkettes National Qualifier where she finished second behind éMjae Frazier and re-qualified as a junior elite.[11] In June Barros competed at the Junior World Championships Trials where she placed third in the all-around and was named to the team to compete at the inaugural Junior World Championships alongside Skye Blakely and Kayla DiCello.[12]

At the Junior World Championships Barros helped the team win bronze behind Russia and China and finished fifth in the all-around. She qualified to the vault event final in first place.[13] During event finals Barros placed fifth on vault.[14]

Team / All-Around Final

Team / All-Around Final

Vault Final

Barros at the 2019 Junior World Championships

In July Barros competed at the U.S. Classic where she won silver in the all-around behind Konnor McClain. Additionally she won bronze on vault (behind McClain and Blakely) and balance beam (behind McClain and Ciena Alipio), silver on floor exercise behind Blakely, and placed sixth on uneven bars.[15]

In August Barros competed at the U.S. National Championships. After the first day of competition she recorded a score of 55.250 and was in fourth place.[16] During the second day of competition scored a 54.550, giving her a total combined score of 109.850 which was a fifth-place finish. Barros won bronze on uneven bars behind Olivia Greaves and McClain and tied with DiCello and won silver on floor exercise behind DiCello. As a result, she was named to the junior national team.[17]

Competitive history

Junior

Year	Event	Team	AA	VT	UB	BB	FX
2017	U.S. Classic		18	19	32	16	23
	US National Championships		23	19	28	13	23
2018	Verification Camp		4
	City of Jesolo Trophy		WD
	U.S. Classic			13	31
	U.S. National Championships		WD
2019	Parkettes National Qualifier
	Jr. World Championships Trials
	Junior World Championships		5	5
	U.S. Classic				6
	U.S. National Championships		5	6		9

References

1. "Jr. Elite Gymnast Sydney Barros Commits to UCLA". UCLA Gym Source. May 1, 2019.
2. "Sydney Barros". USA Gymnastics.
3. https://usagym.org/PDFs/Results/w_16hopeschamps.pdf
4. "2017 U.S. Classic Results". The Gymternet. July 31, 2017.
5. "O'Keefe wins junior women's all-around standings at 2017 P&G Championships". USA Gymnastics. August 20, 2017.
6. "USA Gymnastics names women's 2018 Pac Rim, Junior Pan Am Championships Teams". USA Gymnastics. April 10, 2018.
7. @FloGymnastics (April 14, 2018). "Update: Sydney Barros has withdrawn from the competition due to a left ankle injury" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
8. "Junior Pan American Championships: Women's team clarification". USA Gymnastics. June 11, 2018.
9. "Wong wins 2018 GK U.S. Classic junior all-around gold". USA Gymnastics. July 28, 2018.
10. "2018 U.S. Championships - Women Day 2 Meet Results - Multi" (PDF). USA Gymnastics. August 19, 2018.
11. "2019 Parkettes National Qualifier Results". The Gymternet. June 9, 2019.
12. "2019 U.S. Junior Worlds Trials Results". The Gymternet. June 15, 2019.
13. "U.S. women win team bronze at 2019 Junior World Championships". USA Gymnastics. June 28, 2019.
14. "DiCello wins vault gold at 2019 Junior World Championships". USA Gymnastics. June 29, 2019.
15. "Biles, McClain win all-around titles at 2019 GK U.S. Classic". USA Gymnastics. July 20, 2019.
16. "Biles leads women's all-around at mid-point of 2019 U.S. Championships". USA Gymnastics. July 9, 2019.
17. "Biles soars to sixth U.S. women's all-around title at 2019 U.S. Championships". USA Gymnastics. August 11, 2019.

External links

• Sydney Barros at the International Gymnastics Federation
• Sydney Barros at USA Gymnastics