(UPDATE) FOR the third straight year, Filipino gymnast Carlos Yulo ruled the floor exercise event of the Men’s Senior Artistic Gymnastics Asian Championships.
Yulo topped the final event in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, on Saturday when he scored 14.933 points as the 2019 world champion stayed as the bar in Asian floor exercise tiff.
The 24-year-old defeated Milad Karimi of Kazakhstan and Yang Yanzhi of China, who claimed the silver medal with 14.600 points and the bronze with 14.200, respectively.
Carlos Yulo TMT FILE PHOTO
Carlos Yulo TMT FILE PHOTO
Yulo’s teammate and compatriot John Ivan Cruz missed the podium by a notch as he placed fourth with 13.966 points.
Yulo and Cruz finished first and third, respectively, in the qualification round.
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With his floor exercise conquest, Yulo made it a personal double gold medal haul after he ruled the individual all-around on Friday.
Yulo also competed in the still rings medal round on Saturday but could not make the podium, placing sixth with a score of 13.533 points.
The 4-foot-11 Yulo looks to salvage more medals as he competes in the vault, parallel bars and horizontal bar finals this Sunday.
Meanwhile, Yulo’s younger brother Karl Eldrew entered the championship round in the juniors’ vault and floor exercise competitions.
Karl placed first in the vault qualifications and eighth in the floor exercise. The top eight in the preliminaries of each apparatus progressed to the medal round.
Karl likewise vies for medals on Sunday.
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