Carlos Yulo captures gold medal for the Philippines and is now the country’s second athlete to become an Olympic champion after his spectacular performance on Saturday at the Paris 2024 Olympics, winning gold medal in the artistic gymnastics men’s floor event.
He successfully marked Philippines’ first medal at the current Paris 2024 Olympic Games and also holds the title of being the first Filipino gymnast to step at an Olympic podium.
Yulo’s triumphant peformance comes three years after fellow athlete weightlifter Hidilyn Diaz made history in winning a historic first gold medal for the Southeast Asian nation in 2020 Summer Olypics in Tokyo.
The Filipino gymnast performed third among the eight floor exercise competitors in which Yulo captivated both the audience and the judges with his amazing routine exercises. He scored a difficulty score of 6.600, the highest of the event; and excellently executed it with an 8.400, with an concluding final impressive total score of 15.000.
The 24-year-old’s achievement was all the more excitingly impressive as he enduringly witnessed the performance of defending champion Artem Dolgopyat of Israel who culminated his exercise garnering him a total score of 14.66 just ahead of the 2020 gold medalist.
Carlo Yulo could yet give his country more reason to cheer as he vies for another medal in the vault final on Sunday at 10:24PM. Putting pride to his country, he awaits recognition and additional hefty prizes from the Philippine Government and private institutions
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