Event 2025 Asian Championships (Jun 5-15)

[Denn]

I caught the floor final live. it was a good final. Yulo won, then Karimi, and then a local FX star from Korea.

Tang Chia-Hung (Taiwan), Yang Haonan CHN, and Huang Mingqi CHN all withdrew from FX finals though.

So Yeh Cheng TPE (who was 2-pered) and one of the koreans who qualified in like 87th place competed. And the korean medaled.

Not sure which yet. the characters were in Korean.

 

[Denn]

Nariman Kurbanov added some difficulty to his PH set and won.

-BUT-

Hur Woong SHOULD have won. Kurbanov has fugly technique and body shapes, but the rules don't have tools to penalize him.

Dang Ngoc Xuan Thien and Shiao Yu-Jan were both awesome — they both did triple russians in the middle of the pommels, coincidentally — but they didn't get the score Hur Woong did because they stalled on the way up in their dismounts. Dang Ngoc Xuan Thien got the bronze.

 

[Denn]

Lan Xingyu is competing in rings finals. Yang Haonan is there, too, so why did he skip FX final?
China... Sigh.

Lan Xingyu has won rings at the Asian Championships 3 times previously. Today will be his 4th. (He was first up, but it's already over. Nobody can beat that.)

Apparently China doesn't think he deserves to go to any other event. They sent him to 2021 Worlds, but that was because they kept lots of guys at home after the Olympics.

 

[Denn]

Lan Xingyu, Yang Haonan, and Siahi Kolankouh Siavash got gold, silver, and bronze.

The Irani guy only did a double layout dismount, like it's the year 2000 again. He loses 0.2 for only doing a C, but he does increase the chance of sticking, I suppose (which he did), so he gets 0.1 back there as well as avoids a deduction, so it does make sense.

 

[RAFIKI]

Interesting tactic. I wonder if we’ll see more of this with the stick bonus?

Thanks for the reports

 

[Denn]

Related we already are seeing quite a few double pike dismounts on floor. But they actually made that a D, so there's more incentive.

I'm actually in favor of that. It looks nice. And it's harder than a double tuck to do cleanly.

 

[RAFIKI]

I strongly associate MAG FX double pikes with Nemov. It’s weird to be seeing so many of them now.

I am enjoying not having 90% of routines finishing with a triple twist. Wild that Whitlock could win without a double only nine years ago and now a double is required as the final pass.

 

[Denn]

I strongly associate MAG FX double pikes with Nemov. It’s weird to be seeing so many of them now.

Funny — I do, too! He won lots of gold medals on floor with that dismount 97-99.

I am enjoying not having 90% of routines finishing with a triple twist. Wild that Whitlock could win without a double only nine years ago and now a double is required as the final pass.

I agree that there were too many triple twist dismounts, but think that the rule was not the right solution, because it also prevents, say, Kenzo Shirai's quad twist dismount, which, to me, is the coolest floor dismount we've ever seen.

 

[Passion]

Senior Men's Floor Exercise Final
1. Yulo Carlos Edriel PHI - 14.600
2. Karimi Milad KAZ - 14.400
3. Moon Geonyoung KOR - 14.033
4. Patanin Dmitriy KAZ - 13.833
5. Hasegawa Tsuyoshi JPN - 13.533
6. Hung Yuan-Hsi TPE - 13.500
7. Oka Shinnosuke JPN - 13.300
8. Yeh Cheng TPE - 11.066

Senior Men's Pommel Horse Final
1. Kurbanov Nariman KAZ - 14.933
2. Hur Woong KOR - 14.633
3. Dang Ngoc Xuan Thien VIE - 14.233
4. Shiao Yu-Jan TPE - 14.066
5. Azizov Ilyas KAZ - 13.933
6. Oka Shinnosuke JPN - 13.600
7. Alharith Rakan QAT - 13.533
8. Hasegawa Tsuyoshi JPN - 12.700

Senior Men's Still Rings Final
1. Lan Xingyu CHN - 14.933
2. Yang Haonan CHN - 14.233
3. Siahi Kolankouh Siavash IRI - 14.133
4. Oka Shinnosuke JPN - 14.033
5. Fujimaki Shumpei JPN - 13.866
6. Nguyen Van Khanh Phong VIE - 13.700
7. Yulo Carlos Edriel PHI - 13.233
8. Lee Junghyo KOR - 12.733

Full Results

https://agu-gymnastics.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/MAG-Senior-Results_070625-2025-AGAC.pdf

 

[Denn]

Day 2 event finals start at 2 AM Eastern US time.

We'll see Madhi Olfati due his Yurchenko full-in again, but Yulo is in that final, too. Not sure if Carlos will do the piked Dragulescu or one of the easier variations he does, but it could be a good final.

 

[OnoNoKomachi]

I associate double pike floor dismounts with women's NCAA.

 

[Denn]

Hilarious judging error in the vault final.

Huang Mingqi did a triple-twisting Yurchenko for his second vault (after a triple twisting front first vault. The guy really can twist!) The judges gave him a 4.4 D-score instead of 5.2! That's the value of a double. How could they miss this?!

His reaction is really funny, too. He kind of freaked out and started yelling at the judges!

(I can't give a timestamp yet, because the video is still live)

Weirdly, he posted the correct vault number but a third D-score of 4.8 showed up on screen before he vaulted.

 

[Denn]

Mahdi Olfat's new vault was GREAT. I actually didn't think it was high enough to land well, but he flipped it faster this time and he landed upright, no problem.

He was super excited.

The judges only gave 9.066 for it. I thought that was a little stiff actually!

His Tsuk double pike second vault was good, too, though, and he held off Yulo to win.

Yulo's first vault was the simpler front double pike, no half twist at the end this time. His second was the Kas double full was kind of meh — short of twist, wonky landing... He needs to fix that vault if he wants to keep winning vault gold medals.

 

[Denn]

Dinh Phuong Thanh is still competing — nice to see that. He's never made a parallal bars final, but he's won all kinds of medals at World Cups and won gold at Southeast Asian games a whole bunch of times.

His set was GORGEOUS — until the dismount. He got 8.766 even with an easy 0.8 off on the dismount alone. The judges were going to give him around 9.5 if he did his dismount perfectly.

 

[Denn]

High bar final was crazy.

1. First guy was Tsunogai Tomoharu, and he KILLED it. full Tak, half-Tak + Kolman, Cassina, double twisting double layout stuck. A huge score of 15.0 right out of the gate. Unbelievable.
2. Japan's second entrant did pretty much the same routine in a different order, but a worse dismount. Into second for now.
3. Karimi fell, and honestly, I don't like seeing him win high bar medals because his form is lousy the whole way through. Just very loose and a bad line.
4. Check out Yulo's fall: he literally bounced off his feet into a back "fist-spring". I've never seen a fall like that!
5. Kim Jae-ho fell.
6. Tang Chia-Hung (my favorite on HB for the last several years) was great. He didn't stick his dismount but was pretty clean except some minor leg separations on some releases and a hop on the dismount. He's now doing full Tak into a Walstrom (like a Yamawaki with an extra full). Such a hard, cool combo. Got 15.233 without the stick bonus.
7. Shi Cong's routine was less exciting, but almost 9 in execution (8.966) and a stick bonus. Way behind anyway, and rightly so.
8. Tian Hao, who's never done an FIG competition as a senior except Cottbus last year, got up and did a routine very similar to both Japanese guys except he did some rearways giants for his group I skill instead of a hop full. Landed the dismount bad, and would have been tied for 2nd, or very close, if he had landed it better. Third anyway.

 

[Denn]

Carlos Yulo's Kovacs "combination" to a back fist-spring




Huang Mingqi having a moment with the judges: 5:30:28

The really good Yurchenko full in by Madhi Olfati: 5:33:58

 

[Aeris]

I'm perplexed by the total lack of Rybalko's. The code really incentivized them but they're absent.

 

[Passion]

Senior Men's Vault Final
1. Olfati Mahdi IRI - 14.500
2. Huang Mingqi CHN - 14.400
3. Yulo Carlos Edriel PHI - 14.333
4. Ng Ka Ki HKG - 14.250
5. Kim Jaeho KOR - 14.200
6. Cruz John Ivan PHI - 14.150
7. Mirvaliev Abdulaziz UZB - 13.583
8. Yeh Cheng TPE - 13.166

Senior Men's Parallel Bars Final
1. Oka Shinnosuke JPN - 14.700
2. Tsunogai Tomoharu JPN - 14.466
3. Yulo Carlos Edriel PHI - 14.166
4. Dinh Phuong Thanh VIE - 14.066
5. Shi Cong CHN - 13.900
6. Abdurakhimov Rasuljon UZB - 13.666
7. Yang Haonan CHN - 13.533
8. Moon Geonyoung KOR - 13.100

Senior Men's High Bar Final
1. Tang Chia-Hung TPE - 15.233
2. Tsunogai Tomoharu JPN - 15.000
3. Tian Hao CHN - 14.700
4. Fujimaki Shumpei JPN - 14.466
5. Shi Cong CHN - 14.166
6. Karimi Milad KAZ - 13.366
7. Yulo Carlos Edriel PHI - 12.000
8. Kim Jaeho KOR - 11.600

Full Results

https://agu-gymnastics.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/MAG-Senior-Final-Results0608-2025-AGAC.pdf

 

[Denn]

I'm perplexed by the total lack of Rybalko's. The code really incentivized them but they're absent.

How?

 

[Passion]

China WAG left today for Asian Championships.

Zhang Kexin, Qin Xinyi, Zhang Yihan, Zhou Yaqin, Zhang Xinyi, and Jin Xiaoxuan (alt)