American Gentry Stein won the world Yo-Yo Championship over the weekend, returning the title to the U.S. for the first time since 2008. Extra Mustard | Aug 11, 2014.

Gentry Stein, 18, beat out more than 300 competitors from more than 35 countries in a close race, winning with 88.2 points, just 1.5 points ahead of runner-up Takeshi Matsuura.

Stein is a world champion of the yo-yo—and he didn’t get that honor with musty old moves like round-the-world or walking the dog. His routines are a carefully choreographed flow of ...

SEATTLE — What does it take to be named the world's greatest yo-yo'er? Gentry Stein says Practice, practice, practice. 6 to 8 hours a day. “I started yo-yo-ing when I was about eight years old ...

The 18-year-old Stein scored 88.2, beating Takeshi Matsuura of Japan who scored 86.7 and Iori Yamaki of Japan who scored 81.4. "It was cool," Stein said by phone, one week before he starts ...

Gentry Stein of Chico, Calif., meanwhile, continued to fine-tune his technique, and took top honors at this year’s World Yo-Yo Contest in Prague.

The 2014 World Yo-Yo Contest was held in Prague this year, and let me tell you, it was a doozy. 18-year-old Gentry Stein won the competition with this routine, which seems pretty hard to do. Good w… ...

CHICO — Chico resident and long-time yo-yo competitor Gentry Stein came away as the 2019 1A National Yo-Yo Champion in a competition July 6-7 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Players from all over ...

G entry Stein is an unassuming dude from California—you wouldn’t look twice, really, if you saw him walking down the street. But Stein is actually a professional yo-yo-er, and he’s just been ...

Gentry Stein, who has been yo-yoing since he was in third grade, won the 2014 World YoYo Contest by a slim margin with 88.2 points according to YoYoNews.com.