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 in 3 hours. Stream is here.
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.