PH teen gymnast Carlos Yulo bags gold in Australia

Delfin Dioquino

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PH teen gymnast Carlos Yulo bags gold in Australia
The 19-year-old rules the men's floor final in Melbourne for his first World Cup gold medal as a senior

MANILA, Philippines – Filipino teen gymnast Carlos Yulo opened the year on a high note after clinching gold in the men’s floor final of the 2019 Melbourne World Cup in Australia on Saturday, February 23.

Finishing 3rd place in the qualifying round, Yulo – who just turned 19 on February 16 – turned it up in the final for his first gold medal in a World Cup as a senior. 

He posted 14.566 points to best Japan’s Hibiki Arayashiki, Spain’s Rayderley Zapata and Great Britain’s Dominick Cunningham, who all finished with 14.500 points. 

Arayashiki bagged silver while Zapata and Cunningham both settled for the bronze. 


 

Yulo was coming off a successful 2018 campaign, capturing a historic bronze in men’s floor of the World Artistic Gymnastics Championships to become the first Filipino and male Southeast Asian gymnast to win a medal in the worlds. 

This year, he plans to accumulate as much points in different World Cups in order to earn a spot in the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. (READ: Teen gymnast Carlos Yulo finds winning rhythm in Olympic quest) – Rappler.com

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Delfin Dioquino

Delfin Dioquino dreamt of being a PBA player, but he did not have the skills to make it. So he pursued the next best thing to being an athlete – to write about them. He took up journalism at the University of Santo Tomas and joined Rappler as soon as he graduated in 2017.