Carlos Edriel Yulo, the Philippines’ most celebrated gymnast, once again proved his world-class mettle, claiming the bronze medal in the men’s floor exercise at the 2025 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships in Jakarta.
The annual event—gymnastics’ most prestigious stage outside the Olympics—draws the sport’s finest to battle for medals and momentum ahead of next year’s competitions. For Yulo, fresh off his double-gold triumph at the 2024 Paris Olympics, Jakarta offered another chance to show that his dominance is no fluke.
Delivering a sharp and elegant floor routine packed with difficulty, Yulo scored 14.533—just behind British standouts Jake Jarman (14.866) and Luke Whitehouse (14.666), who secured a gold-silver sweep for Great Britain.
But the 25-year-old Filipino is far from done. He remains the top qualifier—and the heavy favorite—for the vault finals, the event that earned him one of his two Olympic golds (the other one came from floor exercises) and cemented his reputation for explosive power and surgical precision.
Before this latest win, Yulo had already collected six medals—including two golds—across four previous World Championship appearances. Fittingly, his very first World medal was also a bronze on the floor, at the 2018 championships in Doha, Qatar—where a then-teenage Yulo first somersaulted into history and into the hearts of Filipino fans.
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