Four members of Team USA Trampoline and Tumbling returned to Utah from the 2019 World Championships in Tokyo last week according to FOX13 Now. “The nerves were a little less but the expectations were higher,” said Kaden Brown from Herriman, who earned a bronze medal helping end Team USA’s 23-year men’s tumbling medal drought. “Going into individual finals, honestly my goal was just to make finals and then to come home with a medal was insane.”

“For this competition I just qualified the United States for a world games spot,” said Brown, “So in 2021 we will be able to send one athlete to the world games so hopefully is that where I’ll be going.”

Kaden Brown is now a freshman at the University of Utah, who doesn’t have a men’s gymnastics team.

“It’s insane power tumbling’s getting huge in Utah and it’s really cool seeing it start to grow even more,” said Brown who enjoyed his mentorship role at his second world championships. “So when I started this sport I was looking up to elite athletes and they inspired me and it’s crazy to go to these instate competitions and have them look up to me and I’m kind of in their spot now and it’s really, really cool.”

Watch the World Championships Power Tumbling 2019 – Mens Final below.

The top 3 winners were Aleksandr Lisitsyn  of Russia, Elliott Browne of the United Kingdom, and Kaden Brown representing  the United States.