Yulo snatches two bronzes at conclusion of Senior Asian Artistic Gymnastics Championships

CARLOS YULO missed out on replicating his three-gold haul from last year’s edition as he settled for a pair of bronze medals at the conclusion of the Senior Asian Artistic Gymnastics Championships in Jecheon, South Korea on Sunday.

These bronzes came from vault where he wound up with an average score of 14.333 and finished behind Iranian Mahdi Olfati (14.5) and Chinese Huang Mingqi (14.4) and in parallel bars where he had a 14.166 to end up trailing Japanese Shinnosuke Oka (14.7) and Tomoharu Tsunoghai (14.466).

The Paris Olympics double-gold medalist tried to add another medal in the horizontal bar but a bad fall sent him scampering to seventh or second to last with a flat 12.

The Filipino spectacle from Leveriza in Manila failed to match his effort in last year’s staging in Tashkent, Uzbekistan where he harvested three golds in floor, vault and parallel bars.

In all, Mr. Yulo will go home with still an impressive haul of one gold he plucked in the floor exercise the day before and three bronzes including one from individual all-around on Thursday.

More importantly, the effort punched Mr. Yulo a ticket to the World Championships set Oct. 19 to 25 in Jakarta, Indonesia.

Also, that floor exercise mint hiked his total in the annual event to a whopping 11.

Another Filipino, John Ivan Cruz, also made the finals in vault and wound up sixth with a 14.15.

Mr. Yulo’s younger brother, Karl Eldrew, went home with a medal himself, thanks to his silver in vault in the juniors’ division where he tallied 13.850.

South Korean Bak Junwoo copped the gold with a 13.933 while another of the host’s bet, Daegeon An, snatched the silver with a 13.783. — Joey Villar