Filipino Carlos Edriel Yulo bagged the men’s vault gold medal Saturday night at the close of the 53rd FIG Artistic Gymnastics World Championships in Jakarta, Indonesia.<\/p>\n
Yulo scored 14.886 points to beat Armenian Arthur Davtyan (14.833) and Ukrainian Nazar Chepurnyi (14.483).<\/p>\n
Davtyan dethroned Yulo in the 2022 United Kingdom edition but placed second behind the 4-foot-11 Filipino at the Paris Olympics final last year.<\/p>\n
On Friday, Yulo settled for the bronze medal in the floor exercise. Great Britain’s Jake Jarman and Luke Whitehouse placed 1-2.<\/p>\n
“It feels amazing,” the 25-year-old Yulo was quoted by Olympics.com after the finals. “Yesterday (Friday), I was really feeling it. It’s a good feeling making it to the podium in third position. It gave me a lot of motivation to do well today. I’m really grateful it happened.”<\/p>\n
The Filipino first won the World vault gold medal in 2021 Japan. In 2023, he went home empty-handed from Antwerp, Belgium.<\/p>\n
Six years ago, Yulo topped the floor exercise event in Stuttgart, Germany.<\/p>\n
“Caloy (Yulo’s) nickname is truly our national treasure, and he continues to excite our countrymen on the world stage. With the nations\u2019 full support, I\u2019m sure our two-time Olympic champion will make us proud over and over,\u201d Philippine Sports Commission Chair Patrick Gregorio said in a statement.<\/p>\n
\u201cHats off to our gymnastics association as well. Mabuhay ka (Long live), Caloy! Mabuhay ang (Long live) Philippine sports!’ (PNA)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Yulo dedicated his win to his coaches, family, and fellow Filipinos who have supported his journey.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12079,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[933],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-great-filipino-story"],"_pageone_source":"","zyndk8_nxtgen_metadata":{"nxtgen_comments":[{"676":"iba ka tlga yulo \ud83d\ude4c\ud83d\ude4c idol forever!!\r","677":"salamat sa inspirasyon caloy \ud83d\ude4f\ud83c\uddf5\ud83c\udded\r","678":"caloy keep going higher \ud83e\udd38\u200d\u2642\ufe0f\ud83c\uddf5\ud83c\udded\r","679":"iba talaga si caloy!! \ud83d\udd25\r"}]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dkookiejar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12078","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dkookiejar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dkookiejar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dkookiejar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dkookiejar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12078"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dkookiejar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12078\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dkookiejar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12079"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dkookiejar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dkookiejar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dkookiejar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}