Already an Olympic finalist and the All-Around National Champion, Jesse Moore has added to his glittering CV, with his own named gymnastics move, the ‘Moore’ confirmed by the International Gymnastics Federation.

Considered one of the highest honours in gymnastics, having an element named is recognition of the athletes whose innovation brings something new to the sport.

The ‘Moore’ now officially endorsed as an element on Pommel Horse, Jesse performed it successfully for value in the 2025 World Cup in Doha and it is set to be added to the Men’s Artistic Code of Points.

Further confirmation of Jesse’s status as one of Australia’s key players in the international arena, he is buoyed by the recognition.

“It is quite surreal knowing that I was the first to compete a skill and to have it named as well,” he said. “As a junior it was on the bucket list to create a skill, so for that to become a reality is something I am proud of.

“I can’t wait to see people competing it.”

The move itself is a Bertoncelj to Busnari.

Synthesised in Jesse’s own words as a 180-degree turn on one arm, before straddling up to a handstand, then making a 360-degree turn, and returning back down to a flair position, the complex manoeuvre has duly been awarded a G value for difficulty – making it one of the hardest skills on the apparatus.

“I hope there is a video,” he laughs, “because it is extremely hard to explain in words!”

Although the process of developing the skill came about as he played around with it in the gym at the start of 2025, Jesse had determined to upgrade his Pommel routine when the new Code of Points came out at the start of the year with eight skills on the apparatus.

As the move crystallised in the early part of the year, he came to sequence it with other skills, to the point where he was executing two routines; one that included the soon-to-be ‘Moore’ and one without.

“Once I got the opportunity to compete internationally, we had a strategy to compete the skill in finals,” he recalls.

Having missed Pommel finals at DTB and the World Cup in Croatia, Jesse decided to compete the skill in qualification in Doha.

“It was my last chance to get it named. Luckily enough, I made the routine and ended up making finals as well.”

Proud to have been able to compete the new skill under such intense pressure, Jesse described the special feeling of bringing something new to an international final.

“At the time I was super nervous, and I actually can’t remember doing the routine after I completed the skill.

“But once I finished the routine, I was so relieved – and to do it in a final was extra special.”

The addition of the ‘Moore’ into the Code of Points continues an impressive twelve months for Jesse, who last year became the first Australian male to qualify for an Olympic final since Josh Jeffries in London.

More recently, he defended his title of National Champion on the Gold Coast at the Australian Gymnastics Championships and delivered an exceptional performance to finish fourth in the All Around Final at the World University Games.

Jesse joins Japanese-born Naoya Tsukahara to have a move named for them in the Code of Points. Tsukahara, who gained Australian citizenship in 2012, had his move on Rings named in 2016.

Meanwhile, fellow Australian MAG athletes Jack Riek and Prashanth Sellathurai have both previously had skills named for them in the Code of Points.

A full version of the Men’s Artistic Named Elements – to which the ‘Moore’ will be added – is available HERE

Article courtesy of Gymnastics Australia