Stephen Nedoroscik might be a one-trick pony — but a nearly perfect one at that. 

The American gymnast executed a seamless routine on the pommel horse for a score of 14.866 to seal Team USA’s bronze medal in the all-around team competition in Paris on Monday, earning him the “Pommel Horse Guy” moniker on social media. 

As he finished, the 25-year-old, a self-professed “nerd” who wears thick black-framed non-prescription glasses when he’s not competing, clapped his hands in jubilation and then joined teammates Asher Hong, Paul Juda, Brody Malone and Fred Richard, who hoisted him in the air as he raised his arms to celebrate. 

“It went really well today, I handled the nerves very well,” Nedoroscik told reporters in Paris. “I worked my whole life up to those 45 seconds.” 

The medal, albeit in third place, was the American team’s first since 2008 in Beijing. 

“As soon as Steve hit pommel, I knew it,” said U.S. high performance director Brett McClure. 

Team USA slipped by Great Britain by just more than two points — a feat made more impressive by the fact the Americans were in seventh place before Nedoroscik’s routine, but the Massachusetts native quickly flipped the standings. 

“We were probably going to medal if I nailed my set, and they were jumping up and down and I was like, ‘I think we did it!’ ” Nedoroscik said. “And they picked me up and, man, that’s a memory that’s going to live in my head forever.” 

As it turns out, Nedoroscik might have had one job in Paris, but he’s one of the most accomplished in the world at it. 

Nedoroscik won the 2024 U.S. pommel horse championship. Before that, the Sarasota, Fla. resident attended Penn State, where he won two national titles in pommel horse competition and was a four-time All-American.

The self-proclaimed nerd aslo studied electrical engineering. 

He’s earned a legion of fans due to his specs — “They’re more for show than anything,” he said. “They don’t have prescription in them. We’ll see if they make an appearance in one of the next couple of competitions I have” — and his quirks, like his personal record for solving a Rubik’s Cube in a stunning 8.664 seconds, according to his TikTok bio. 

“Stephen was in the hardest seat of the entire competition,” McClure said. “Last up on the last event, knowing that if you hit a routine, you’re probably going to medal—and he did it.” 

There’s potentially more coming, too. 

Nedoroscik will vie for gold Saturday in the event final, having to go up against Great Britain’s Max Whitlock, who has won two straight gold medals in the event.