Yulo ends Korea show with 1 gold, 3 bronzes

MANILA, Philippines — Carlos Yulo missed out on replicating his three-gold haul in the previous Senior Asian Artistic Gymnastics Championships, settling for  a gold and three bronze medals this time in the South Korea edition.

The last two bronzes came from vault where he wound up with an average score of 14.333 behind Iranian Mahdi Olfati (14.5) and Chinese Huang Mingqi (14.4) and in parallel bars where he had a 14.166 behind 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 down 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.

Nonetheless, Yulo had a worthy showing, winning the gold in floor exercise and earlier snaring a bronze in the individual all around on Thursday.

More importantly, Yulo punched 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 final in vault and wound up sixth with a 14.15.

Yulo’s younger brother Karl Eldrew went home with a silver from vault in the juniors’ division where he tallied 13.850.

South Korean Bak Junwoo copped the gold with a 13.933 while another home bet in Daegeon An snatched the silver with a 13.783.