All-around champions Zhang Jin and Shi Cong led China to the women’s and men’s team titles, and Carlos Yulo of the Philippines won three apparatus golds, at the Asian Gymnastics Championships held June 15-18 in Doha.
The Chinese gymnasts’ sweep of the women’s and men’s all-around and team titles helped push their tally of gold medals to eight at the championships, which also served as a qualification competition for this fall’s World Championships in Liverpool
Born November 25, 2000, in Shanghai, women’s all-around champion Zhang placed eighth on balance beam at the 2018 World Championships in Doha, and 15th all-around in qualifications at last summer’s Olympic Games in Tokyo.
Zhang’s teammate and fellow Olympian Tang Xijing took the all-around silver medal. Tang, who also placed second all-around at the 2019 Worlds in Stuttgart, was second on balance beam and seventh all-around at the Tokyo Games.
China’s Wu Ran, a 17-year-old native of Guanxi, was the only female gymnast to win more than one individual title in Doha. She placed first on balance beam and floor exercise.
Two days prior to her 47th birthday, eight-time Olympian Oksana Chusovitina of Uzbekistan placed fifth in the women’s vault final.
Men’s all-around winner Shi, a 21-year-old Jiangsu native, placed first all-around at the 2018 Junior Asian Championships in Jakarta, and sixth all-around and third on parallel bars at last fall’s World Championships in Kitakyushu.
All-around silver medalist Yulo was the only male gymnast to win more than one individual gold medal as he collected titles on floor exercise, vault and parallel bars.
Yulo finished third on floor exercise and 23rd all-around at the 2018 World Championships in Doha, first on floor exercise and 10th all-around at the 2019 Worlds in Stuttgart, first on vault and second on parallel bars at the 2021 Worlds in Kitakyushu, and fourth on vault at last summer’s Olympic Games in Tokyo.
2022 Asian Gymnastics Championships
June 15-18, Doha
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International Gymnast Online’s recent coverage of 2022 Asian Gymnastics Championships competitors includes:
Kazakhstan:
World Cup series winner Nariman Kurbanov of Kazakhstan striving for ‘golden mean’
Philippines:
Carlos Yulo on Worlds gold and silver: ‘I know I can do more’
Although Egyptian Olympic gymnastics history dates back nearly a century, Egyptian Gymnastics Federation president Ehab Amin Esawy told International Gymnast Online that recent skill development and knowledge expansion have stimulated the country’s vigorous pursuit of berths at the 2024 Games in Paris.
A mainstay on the German team during the past Olympic cycle, Carina Kröll has negotiated a quick and triumphant transition to her new position as a leader of the Austrian team.
By winning the gold medal on vault at the recent World Challenge Cup in Osijek, Valentina Georgieva ended a five-year medal drought for Bulgarian women’s gymnastics at that level of competition. Georgieva’s positive results on vault in the Challenge Cup series could perhaps propel the momentum for the Bulgarian women’s program, which was once successful and highly respected.
Hungary’s Zsofia Kovacs earned three golds and Ukraine’s Igor Radivilov earned two golds as the only multiple winners at the Challenge Cup of Koper held June 16-19.
