Fred Richard

Fred Richard Winter Cup (USA Gymnastics)

Class:
Junior
Weight:
null
Hometown:
Stoughton, Mass.

USA Gymnastics Bio
Road To Nationals Scores

At Michigan
• NCAA All-Around Champion (2025)
• NCAA High Bar silver medalist (2025)
• NCAA All-Around and Still Rings silver medalist (2024)
• NCAA Champion, high bar, parallel bars, all-around (2023)
• NCAA Floor Exercise silver medalist (2023)
• Seven-time NCAA All-American (2025), first gymnast in NCAA history to do so in a single season
• Three-time NCAA All-American (2024)
• Five-time NCAA All-American (2023)
• Big Ten All-Around Champion (2025)
• Big Ten All-Around Champion (2024)
• Big Ten All-Around, High Bar Champion (2023)
• Big Ten Gymnast of the Year (2024)
• Big Ten Gymnast of the Championships (2025)
• Big Ten Gymnast of the Championships (2024)
• Big Ten Gymnast of the Championships (2023)
• Big Ten Freshman of the Year (2023)
• First Team All-Big Ten (2025)
• First Team All-Big Ten (2024)
• First Team All-Big Ten (2023)
• Academic All-Big Ten (2024)
• Four-time Big Ten Gymnast of the Week (2025)
• CGA Gymnast of the Week (March 27, 2024)
• Big Ten Gymnast of the Week (March 18, 2024)
• Four-time CGA Gymnast of the Week (2024)
• CGA Specialist of the Week (Feb. 6, 2024)
• Two-time Big Ten Specialist of the Week (2024)
• Two-time Big Ten Gymnast of the Week (2023)
• Three-time Big Ten Freshman of the Week (2023)

National/International
• Represented Team USA at the 2024 Olympics, helping to lead the team to a bronze medal for the first time since 2008 and finishing 15th in the all-around finals
• Earned runner-up finish in the all-around at the 2024 US Championships (170.250), winning floor exercise (29.500), took sixth on still rings (28.300), and second on high bar (28.800)
• Earned a bronze medal in the all-around at the 2023 FIG World Championships in the all-around competition, scoring a 84.332 (Oct. 5) and the first American to win an all-around medal since 2010
• Won team bronze medal at 2023 World Championships, helping the USA take home the first team medal since 2014 and fourth-ever in USA Gymnastics history
• Placed eighth on floor exercise at FIG World Championships (Oct. 7)
• Placed third in the all-around (169.311) at US Championships (Aug. 28), highlighted by an event-winning 29.802 on high bar. Also earned top-10 finishes on floor exercise (7th, 28.378), parallel bars (8th, 29.100), and still rings (9th, 28.000)
• Took fourth in the all-around competition at World University Games in Chengdu, China (Aug. 6), scoring a 83.765. Also placed fourth on floor exercise (14.233) and high bar (second, 14.166)
• Placed fifth on parallel bars at DTP Pokal in Stuttgart, Germany (March 18, 2023)
• Earned team gold medal at DTP Pokal as a member of the five-man Team USA Squad (March 17). Scored a 14.00 on high bar, 14.90 on parallel bars, 14.70 and 14.45 on vault.

Junior (2024)
• Competed in six meets, three times in the all-around
• Won the NCAA All-Around title (84.264) and tied for second on the high bar (13.766) with teammate Carson Eshleman
• Earned All-America citations in all six events and the all-around, the first gymnast in NCAA history to do so
• Won the Big Ten All-Around title (83.450) for the third straight year and finished fourth on the pommel horse (13.750)
• Took eight event titles
• Saw a career-high on parallel bars (14.950) at Nebraska (March 21) and a season-high on high bar (14.700) against Illinois (Feb. 8), the top event scores in the nation

Sophomore (2024)
• Won the all-around title against Ohio State (March 9) and Penn State (March 17), setting a career-high score of 86.95 in the latter
• Joined the floor exercise lineup four times, taking the event title against Penn State with a 14.60
• Notched a new personal best of 15.00 on pommel horse against Army (Jan. 20), winning the individual event title in the process
• Won the high bar individual title against Army (14.40), Illinois (14.90), Springfield/ASU (14.45), Oklahoma (14.85), and Ohio State (13.80), as well as against Penn State with a nation-leading career-high score of 15.30 on the apparatus
• Took the individual title on parallel bars against Illinois (Feb. 3) with a 14.40
• Set a new personal best on vault against Springfield/ASU, winning the individual event title with a score of 14.90
• Named CGA Gymnast of the Week on four occasions (Feb. 6, Feb. 21, March 5, and March 20) and earned CGA Specialist of the Week honors once (Feb. 6)
• Earned Big Ten Gymnast of the Week honors once (March 18) and Big Ten Specialist of the Week twice (Jan. 22, Feb 5)
• Earned Academic All-Big Ten honors

Freshman (2023)
• Competed in in 10 meets, missing team competitions due to load management and international competition
• Earned a trio of NCAA titles on high bar, parallel bars, and the all-around, while also taking runner-up finish on floor exercise en route to four NCAA All-America honors
• Became the first gymnast since Sam Mikulak in 2014 to win an NCAA parallel bar title and the tenth overall with a 15.000, also winning both high bar (14.433) and the all-around competition (85.989)
• Tied for win on floor exercise with a 14.800, but earned runner-up finish due to tiebreaker on event
• Earned event wins at Big Ten Championships on high bar (14.875) and in the all-around (85.950)
• Captured high bar titles against Penn State (Feb. 11) with a 14.50 and against Illinois (March 18) with a 14.275
• Scored a 14.50 on high bar for event win at Penn State (Feb. 11)
• Hauled in a pair of event wins on parallel bars (14.85) and high bar (14.65) against Ohio State (Jan. 28)
• Won first collegiate event on high bar against Simpson & Greenville, scoring a 14.55 (Jan. 15)
• Collected 28 scores of 14-plus on the season

Prep
• Placed second on high bar, third on floor exercise, and fourth in the all-around competition at the 2022 US Gymnastics Championships at the senior level.
• Took second on high bar at the US Classic
• Won the junior division all-around competition as well as floor exercise, vault, and high bar at the 2021 US Gymnastics Championships
• United States Senior National Team member
• Has competed internationally in Germany, Mexico, and Brazil
• Honor Roll recipient in high school

Personal
• Frederick Nathaniel Richard
• Stoughton High School (2022), Stoughton, Mass.
• Born April 23, 2004, in Stoughton, Mass.
• Son of Ann-Marie and Carl Richard
• Has sister, Alexandra, and brother, Carlton
• Enrolled in the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts