Carlos Yulo reaches floor and vault finals at gymnastics worlds
The Filipino gymnast qualified second on floor and sixth on vault at the championships in Rotterdam.
Carlos Yulo of the Philippines advanced to two apparatus finals at the 54th Artistic Gymnastics World Championships in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, scoring 14.500 on floor exercise and averaging 14.266 on vault.
The 26-year-old, who holds two Olympic gold medals, placed second in floor qualifying and sixth on vault. His performances followed two gold medals at the Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games less than a month earlier.
Russia’s Arsenii Dukhno led floor qualifying with 14.700. Other finalists include Israel’s Artem Dolgyopyat, who scored 14.300, and Britain’s Jake Jarman, who recorded 14.133. Jarman and Armenia’s Artur Davytan will also compete against Yulo in the vault final.
Yulo’s world championship gold medals include a floor title in Stuttgart, Germany, and vault titles won in Kitakyushu, Japan, in 2021 and Jakarta, Indonesia, in 2025.
In the individual all-around, Yulo finished 34th on 77.631. His younger brother Eldrew, making his world championships debut, placed 84th with 67.032 and did not qualify for an apparatus final.
