Asher Hong Turned Major Childhood Setback Into Leading Team USA at the Tokyo World Championship Asher Hong dominates the U.S. all-around by a record margin, capping a journey from childhood setback to

Asher Hong’s career ledger already reads like a veteran’s record book. An Olympic team bronze medalist in Paris last summer. Six NCAA individual titles across vault, parallel bars, still rings, and floor exercise. Two NCAA team championships with Stanford. The 2023 U.S. all-around champion and a World Championships team bronze medalist. Yet his latest accomplishment may be the most decisive: winning the U.S. men’s all-around gymnastics title in New Orleans by 7.465 points, the largest margin recorded under the Code of Points since its introduction in 2006. “One of our mottos is leave no doubt, and that’s what I wanted to do here today,” Hong said on NBC Sports.

That margin eclipsed the previous record of 5.55 points set by Sam Mikulak in 2019 and even surpassed Simone Biles’s women’