Carlos Yulo advances to floor, vault finals in world championships
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Filipino gymnast Carlos Yulo competes in the vault final in men’s artistic gymnastics at the 2026 Asian Games in Nagoya, Japan, September 25, 2026. POC Media Double Olympic champion Carlos Yulo advances to the finals of both the floor exercise and vault at the FIG Artistic Gymnastics World Championships in Rotterdam, Netherlands.
Yulo finished second in the floor qualification with 14.500 points as Arsenii Dukhno topped the field with 14.700.
Artem Dolgopyat was third with 14.300, followed by Frederick Richard (14.233) and Jake Jarman (14.133).
Yahor Sharamkou took sixth with 14.100, while Noam Berkovich and Ryosuke Doi tied for seventh at 14.033.
Yulo opened his routine with a 2.5 twist to front double pike. He closed with a big double layout, taking a small hop back on the landing.
In the vault, Yulo placed sixth with an average of 14.266.
Judges downgraded his first vault, a piked double front half, to Dragulescu with a 5.2 difficulty value. He scored 14.000 on it, then posted 14.533 on his Kas double.
Jarman and Artur Davtyan shared the top spot in the vault at 14.633. Nazar Chepurnyi followed with 14.450, then Dukhno (14.350) and Shohei Kawakami (14.283).
Sebastian Sponevik (14.233) and Harry Hepworth (14.216) completed the eight-man final.
Yulo’s younger brother Karl Eldrew and Juancho Miguel Besana failed to qualify for any apparatus final for men’s.
Yulo’s finals are set for October 24 and 25, where the history-maker will aim to add to his three world titles.