Eldrew Yulo will get beneficial expertise in senior stage debut

Eldrew Yulo, 18, makes two equipment finals within the FIG Creative Gymnastics World Cup in Baku, Azerbaijan, as he competes on the senior stage for the primary time

MANILA, Philippines – A medal might not have been meant to be, however Eldrew Yulo confirmed promise in his senior stage debut.

The 18-year-old Yulo made two equipment finals within the Baku, Azerbaijan, leg of the FIG Creative Gymnastics World Cup sequence, contending for medals within the males’s ground train and horizontal bar.

Yulo completed sixth within the ground train on Saturday, March 7, with a rating of 13.9 factors as he held his personal towards extra completed opponents regardless of being the youngest finalist.

Belarus’ Yahor Sharamkou claimed the ground train crown with 14.533 factors, whereas Kazakhstan’s Milad Karimi (14.3) and Japan’s Kazuki Minami (14.2) bagged silver and bronze, respectively.

Within the horizontal bar on Sunday, March 8, the place Yulo as soon as once more stood because the youngest finalist, he positioned seventh with 13.033 factors.

Paris Olympics horizontal bar bronze medalist Tang Chia-Hung of Chinese language Taipei topped the sector with 15.366 factors, beating out Karimi (15.033) and Colombia’s Angel Barajas (14.4) for the gold medal.

For Gymnastics Affiliation of the Philippines president Cynthia Carrion, the expertise of world-class competitors will profit Yulo, who’s simply a few months eliminated since he gained a pair of bronze medals within the Junior World Championships hosted by the Philippines in November.

“I’m assembly him in Turkiye and [I] hope [he] will enhance his publicity,” Carrion advised Rappler on Monday, March 9.

“That is his first senior championship, he has to get used to it. He’ll enhance as the times go by and as [he competes in] extra World Cups.”

Yulo will see motion in one other World Cup in Antalya, Turkey, set from March 12 to fifteen. – Rappler.com