AFTER winning his first individual all-around gold medal last week, Carlos Edriel Yulo added his pet event, the men’s floor exercise, to his collection last Saturday night in the Senior Men’s Artistic Gymnastics Championships at the Gymnastics Sports Palace in Tashkent, Uzbekistan.
Yulo, the world champion in the event in the 2019 FIG Artistic Gymnastics World Championships in Stuttgart, Sweden, scored 14.993 points to clinch the gold medal, relegating Kazakhstan’s Karimi Milad (14.600) and China Yang Yangzhi (14.200) to the silver and bronze, respectively.
In the absence of the continent’s top guns who are likely focused on their preparations for the Paris Olympic Games in July, Yulo had an easy time capturing the individual all-around gold medal, scoring 84.931 points over the six apparatuses.
Milad (84.632) took the silver while China’s Ying Dehang (82.063) settled for the bronze in the last Asian qualifying meet for the Paris Summer Games.
Yulo’s individual all-around finish guaranteed him a spot in the men’s individual all-around qualifiers of all six events in the French capital instead of just being limited to the floor exercise based on his finish at the last world meet in 2023 in Antwerp, Belgium.
The diminutive Pinoy dynamo was seeking to add more mints in the finals of the horizontal bar, parallel bars and vault last night.
He won three golds, one silver and a bronze in the Singapore edition of the meet a year ago.
