Three gymnasts from Wales (Abigail Roper, Emily Roper, and Ruby Evans) each won a medal in Event Finals at the 2026 Commonwealth Games. In a 2-day stretch they won as many medals in Women’s Artistic Gymnastics (WAG) for Wales at the Commonwealth Games than Wales had won in all of its previous appearances combined stretching back four decades.

Ruby Evans was the first WAG from Wales to win a gold medal at the Commonwealth Games.

England, Canada and Australia have won every gold medal in WAG at the Commonwealth Games with two exceptions, Nikki Jenkins of New Zealand in 1994 and Ruby Evans in 2026.

Wales is now only the 5th country to ever take gold in any WAG event at the Commonwealth Games.

Amanada Yap of Singapore also won a medal in Event Finals, making Singapore the 7th WAG program to ever have multiple medalists in its history at the Commonwealth Games.

Before 2026 WAG programs not belonging to the trio of Australia, Canada and England have won only two or less medals in a single Commonwealth Games. In 2026 the rest of the field walked away with four.

Ellie Black became only the fourth WAG to ever be a repeat gold medalist in the same individual event at the Commonwealth Games, and the first to do so in the All-Around.

In the last two Commonwealth Games the gold medal in the All-Around and Team Competition went to two different WAG programs. Previously such a split had only occurred in 1994 and 2002.

Because the Commonwealth Games is not a random collection of countries, but countries with specific historical links to Great Britain, the start list of this competition typically features an abnormally large number of gymnasts with shared names.

There were 12 gymnasts who shared a last name with another gymnast, eight of which were sisters, two of which were twins.

The presence of four sister combinations in the team competition occurred despite only six countries fielding full size teams and there being just 51 gymnasts in the team competition.

Australia, England and Wales each had a “Ruby” while England and Wales also had an “Abigail.” But one goes by “Abi,” the other “Abbie.”

Singapore had two gymnasts with the same first name (Emma) while Canada also had two gymnasts with the same first name (Lia). Not to be outdone Singapore also had two gymnasts with the same last name (Yap) and Canada also not to be outdone, also had two gymnasts with the same last name (Black). But the Yap gymnasts are sisters while the Black gymnasts was just a case of coincidence.

Yes, you read that right. Two different teams had a pair of gymnasts with the same first name and another pair of gymnasts with the same last name.

The women’s competition featured four gymnasts with Taylor, Andrew, John, and Martin as their last names and another who goes by “Frank” as her first name. They were Jemima Taylor of Wales, Sureshni Andrew of Namibia, Sophie St John of Malta, Abi Martin of England and Frank Stone of Wales.

There was an Emily from Australia and an Emily from Wales.

There was a “McDonald” from New Zealand and a “McDonald” from Australia.

In the team competition 25% of the teams had a pair of sisters while 39% of all gymnasts had either the same first name or the same last as another gymnast competing. Three gymnasts shared both their first and last names with other gymnasts in the competitive field (Abigail Roper, Emily Roper and Emma Yap).

In the team competition 23.5% of gymnasts shared a last name with another competitor, 15.6% were siblings with another competitor and 6% of all gymnasts were named “Ruby.”

The four sets of sisters came from three different continents. There was Amanda Yap and Emma Yap of Singapore (Asia), Abigail Roper and Emily Roper of Wales (Europe), Naveen Daries and Zelme Daries of South Africa (Africa) and Anne-Leen Thorburn and Jonie Thorburn of Namibia (Africa).

There were 15 gymnasts who shared first names with another gymnast (Abigail Martin, Abigail Roper, Emma Goh, Emma Yap, Emily Roper, Emily Whitehead, Georgia Charalampous, Georgia Godwin, Lia Monica Fontaine, Lia Redick, Ruby Evans, Ruby Pass, Ruby Stacey, Sienna Santiago & Sienna Shields).

They represented 29% of all gymnasts competing.

There were 12 gymnasts who shared last names with another gymnast (Gabrielle Black, Ellie Black, Naveen Daries, Zelme Daries, Kate McDonald, Jun McDonald, Emily Roper, Abigail Roper, Amanda Yap, Emma Yap, Jonie Thorburn & Anne-Leen Thorburn).

England had a Shantae-Eve and a Shanna-Kae.

There was a gymnast named “Ellee” and a gymnast named “Ellie.” Not only are the names spelled differently, the two gymnasts use them differently. Ellee Cheetham is always “Ellee.” But Ellie Black uses a combination of “Elsabeth” in official FIG record keeping and “Ellie” in common usage.

In this competition Ellie Black took the All-Around gold medal at 30 years old. Between Simone Biles currently being 29 years old and Angelina Melnikova being 26 years old, there are now three reigning All-Around gold medalists from the Olympics, World Championships, and Commonwealth Games with a combined age of 85.