Take a bow: Carlos Yulo cops 1 gold, 3 bronzes in 2025 Asian Gymnastics Championships

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Away from competition for nearly a year, Olympic double-gold medalist Carlos Yulo sets the tone for the rest of his 2025 season with four medals — topped by a floor exercise gold — in the Asian Artistic Gymnastics Championships in Jecheon, South Korea

MANILA, Philippines – In his first official compeition in 10 months, Filipino gymnastics superstar Carlos Yulo racked up the medals at the 2025 Asian Artistic Gymnastics Championships in Jecheon, South Korea, winning one gold and three bronzes from Thursday, June 5, until Sunday, June 8.

After a bronze win in the individual all-around on Thursday and a successful golden four-peat in floor on Saturday, June 7, the 25-year-old wrapped a bow on his Korea tour with two more bronzes on Sunday: one in vault and another in parallel bars.

Also the defending Olympic champion in vault apart from his floor exercise pet event, Yulo faced stiff competition from the eight-man field, with Iran’s Mahdi Olfati planting a solid start to the two-part routine to win gold with a final score of 14.5 (14.666, 14.333).

China’s Mingqi Huang was a close second with 14.4 (14.6, 14.2) to win silver, while Yulo suffered from a low-scored second vault to settle for bronze at 14.333 (14.533, 14.133).

Olfati was a familiar face to Yulo in the Asian Championships, as the pair were the only Asians in the Paris Olympics vault finals where Yulo won gold and Olfati placed seventh out of eight competitors.

Yulo attempted to immediately rebound in the parallel bars event, jumping to a quick lead with a bonus-laced 14.166 score, but Japan’s Shinnosuke Oka had other plans with a breathtaking routine to establish a 14.7 blowout lead that he eventually kept until the end.

Oka’s compatriot Tomoharu Tsunogai snuggled right in the middle of the podium after he completed his routine, scoring 14.466 to clinch silver and a one-two finish for Japan.

It was an anticlimactic finish for Yulo in his fifth and final event, as he fell off the high bar and straight to seventh place out of eight with a lowly score of 12, a far cry from the championship-winning mark of 15.233 set by Taiwan’s Chia-Hung Tang.

Yulo’s high bar finish matched his lowest in the apparatus finals, as he also placed second to last in still rings last Saturday, while failing to qualify altogether in the pommel horse final.

The Filipino sports icon now sets his sights towards the World Artistic Gymnastics Championships in Jakarta, Indonesia this October 19 to 25, before wrapping up his 2025 season in Thailand for the 33rd Southeast Asian Games. – Rappler.com