Carlos Yulo qualifies for floor exercise finals of Paris Olympics

By GMA Integrated News

Published July 28, 2024 3:27am
Updated July 28, 2024 4:23am

Carlos Edriel Yulo competes in the parallel bars event of the artistic gymnastics men's qualification during the Paris 2024 Olympic Games. July 27, 2024. (Photo by Lionel BONAVENTURE / AFP)

Carlos Yulo has qualified for gymnastics' floor exercise finals at the 2024 Paris Olympics.

The Paris Olympics confirmed the Filipino gymnast's qualification on Sunday.

CARLOS YULO ON THE FLOOR FINALS!

Yulo will also advance to the floor finals, as confirmed by the Paris Olympics website. @gmasportsph @gmanews pic.twitter.com/M2pJyhHOSd
— JK Carandang (@jk_carandang) July 27, 2024

Yulo impressed in the floor exercise and scored 14.766 in the qualification round.

He finished second behind Great Britain's Jake Jarman who scored 14.966.

Only the top eight gymnasts, with a maximum of two per country, will advance to the finals.

Floor exercise is Yulo's pet event in gymnastics as he won the gold medal in the 2019 World Championships. He also bagged the gold in floor for three straight years in the Asian Championships from 2022 to 2024, and the 2019 and 2021 Southeast Asian Games.

Back in Tokyo 2020, Yulo missed the finals of the floor exercise, but qualified in the vault finals.

The floor exercise finals will be held on August 3.

Aside from floor exercise, Yulo also advanced to the vault finals and the all-around finals.

—JKC, GMA Integrated News

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