Rin Keys
Rin Alessia Keys (born 23 September 2008) is an American rhythmic gymnast. She is the Pan American Champion (2024 in clubs and 2025 in team, all-around, ball and clubs). As a junior, she won a bronze medal in clubs at the 2023 Junior World Championships, becoming the first American to win a World Championships medal.
At the national level, she is the a two-time (2024, 2025) USA national all-around champion and 2023 USA junior national all-around champion.
Personal life
Keys was born in Japan.[1]
Career
Junior
In 2021, Keys joined the junior national team. She competed at the 2021 Junior Pan American Rhythmic Gymnastics Championships, where she won team gold. Individually, she won bronze in the all-around as well as with ball and with clubs.[2]
The following year, at the Pan American Championships in Rio de Janeiro, she won another team gold and gold in the junior all-around. In the apparatus finals, she won two more golds with ball and with ribbon as well as silver with hoop.[3][4][5] At the national level, she was the all-around junior silver medalist.[6]
In 2023, Keys became the all-around junior national champion.[6] At the Pan American Championships in Guadalajara in June, she won a third team gold and second consecutive gold in the junior all-around. She won two more golds in the apparatus finals, with hoop and with ball, in addition to silver with clubs and bronze with ribbon.[7][8][9]
In July, she was selected for the Junior World Championships in Cluj-Napoca along with Megan Chu and the junior group. She won an historic bronze medal in the clubs final, becoming the first rhythmic gymnast from the United States, or any country in the Americas, to win a World Championships medal at either the junior or senior level.[10][11][12]
Senior
In 2024, she began competing in the senior category. She made her international debut in March at her first World Cup in Palaio Faliro, Greece, where she placed 7th in the all-around and qualified for two finals. In the finals, she finished 4th with the ball and 6th with the clubs.[13] In April, she competed at the World Cup in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, where she placed 12th in all-around but did not qualify for any finals.[14]
In June, she competed at the 2024 Pan American Championships and won a silver medal in the team competition together with Jaelyn Chin, Megan Chu and Alexandria Kautzman. She also won a silver medal in the all-around behind Bárbara Domingos from Brazil. In the apparatus finals, she won gold with clubs and silver with ball, and she placed 4th in the hoop and ribbon finals.
She won the all-around at the 2024 USA National Championships, as well as gold in hoop, silver in ribbon and bronze in clubs.[6] At the end of September, Keys, along with her teammates Megan Chu and Natalia de la Rosa, participated in the international club competition Aeon Cup in Japan, where they won a historic gold medal ahead of the Ukrainian and Italian teams. She placed 5th in the all-around.[15]
In 2025, Keys competed at the Sofia World Cup in April and finished in 6th place in the all-around. In the ribbon final, she won the bronze medal behind Taisiia Onofriichuk and Liliana Lewinska, and she also took 6th place in the clubs and ball finals.[16] Later in April, she competed at the Baku World Cup and took 9th place in the all-around. In the apparatus finals, she was 4th with hoop and 7th with clubs. On 9-11 May, she competed at the World Challenge Cup Portimão and won the silver medal in the all-around behind Alina Harnasko. She also won two additional silver medals in the clubs and ball finals.
At the 2025 Pan American Championships in June, she won gold in the all-around. She also won the gold medal in the team competition together with Megan Chu and three more individual medals in the apparatus finals: gold with ball and clubs and silver with ribbon.[17]
On June 20-22, Keys competed at the USA National Championships and won gold in the all-around.[18]
Routine music information
| Year | Apparatus | Music Title |
|---|---|---|
| 2023 | Hoop | Whole Lotta Love by Beth Hart |
| Ball | Black Horse and the Cherry Tree by KT Tunstall | |
| Clubs | Days Pass by Adrian Berenguer | |
| Ribbon | Footloose by Kenny Loggins | |
| 2024 | Hoop | Whole Lotta Love by Beth Hart |
| Ball | Not About Angels by Birdy | |
| Clubs | Check it out by Oh the Larceny | |
| Ribbon | Theory of Light by Eternal Eclipse | |
| 2025 | Hoop | Killer Game by FreshmanSound |
| Ball | Somewhere Over the Rainbow by Joseph William Morgan, Shadow Royale | |
| Clubs | Scratch by Power-Haus | |
| Ribbon | Theory of Light by Eternal Eclipse |
References
- ^ "KEYS Rin – FIG Athlete Profile". www.gymnastics.sport. Retrieved 2023-07-19.
- ^ "2021 Junior Rhythmic Pan Americans Resukt Book" (PDF). static.usagym.org.
- ^ "2022 Pan American Championships Junior Teams" (PDF). static.usagym.org.
- ^ "2022 Pan American Championships Junior All-Around" (PDF). static.usagym.org.
- ^ "2022 Pan American Championships Junior Event Finals" (PDF). static.usagym.org.
- ^ a b c "Rin Keys". USA Gymnastics. Retrieved 2024-06-29.
- ^ "Junior Team" (PDF). static.usagym.org.
- ^ "Junior All-Around" (PDF). static.usagym.org.
- ^ "Junior Event Finals" (PDF). static.usagym.org.
- ^ "2023 Junior World Championships Result Book" (PDF). gym.longinestiming.
- ^ Steinke, Matt (2023-07-09). "Keys earns first-ever U.S. medal at Rhythmic Junior World Championships • USA Gymnastics". USA Gymnastics. Retrieved 2023-07-19.
- ^ "Rhythmic Gymnastics Junior Worlds: A sign of things to come". International Gymnastics Federation. 2023-07-10. Retrieved 2025-06-02.
- ^ "WCup Palaio Faliro, Athens Result Book" (PDF). International Gymnastics Federation. Retrieved 27 January 2025.
- ^ "WCup Tashkent Media Results Book" (PDF). International Gymnastics Federation. Retrieved 27 January 2025.
- ^ "Aeon Cup Results Book (Media)" (PDF). International Gymnastics Federation. Retrieved 27 January 2025.
- ^ Gentile, Gabriel (2025-04-06). "Maria Alexandre fica em oitavo lugar na fita em Sófia". Olimpíada Todo Dia (in Brazilian Portuguese). Retrieved 2025-04-06.
- ^ Steinke, Matt (2025-06-01). "U.S. sweeps individual gold, concludes 2025 Rhythmic Senior Pan Ams with 11 medals". USA Gymnastics. Retrieved 2025-06-02.
- ^ "USA Gymnastics Championships - Rhythmic". rgform.eu. Retrieved 2025-06-22.