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Carlos Yulo wins floor exercise gold in Asian Gymnastics, Aleah Finnegan claims vault bronze


Filipino Olympian and gymnast Carlos Yulo once again reigned supreme in the floor exercise event of the 2023 Asian Gymnastics Championships on Saturday in Singapore.

Yulo scored 15.300 points in the finals to win the gold medal.

Kazakhstan's Dmitriy Patanin finished second with 14.366 while China's Weide Su scored 14.333 to place third.

This is Yulo's second medal in this year's championships as he already claimed a silver in the all-around event.

Yulo also won the gold medal in the Asian championships in 2022.

Later in the day, Yulo missed the podium in the men's rings as he finished fourth behind China's Xingyu Lan, Vietnam's Van Khanh Phong Nguyen, and Kiu Chung Ng of Hong Kong.

Aleah Finnegan, meanwhile, bagged a bronze medal in vault as she finished third with 13.483 points behind South Korea's Seojong Yeo with 14.317 points and Uzbekistan's Oksana Chusovitina with 13.517 points.

—Justin Kenneth Carandang/JMB, GMA Integrated News