Tokyo Olympics’ veteran Carlos Yulo settled for a silver medal in the men’s all-around event and made the finals of four more at the end of the qualification rounds of the 9th Senior Artistic Gymnastics Asian Championships at the Aspire Dome on Thursday evening in Doha, Qatar.
The feat earned Yulo a spot in FIG Artistic World Championships, scheduled in Liverpool from October 29 to November 6.
And he can get more slots if he does well in the finals of the floor exercises, the rings, the vault and the parallel bars.
All the podium finishers together, with fourth and fifth-placers, will qualify for the world meet as well.
Twenty-one-year-old Cong Shi took the men’s all-around gold to contribute to China’s domination of the Asian meet with 83.33 points, ahead of Yulo, a two-time world champion, who came in second with 83.867 points.
Top favorite China swept men’s and women’s team honors and claimed the all-around crowns in both divisions.
Another Chinese, Jiaxing Yang bagged the bronze with 83.731 points.
Yulo’s teammates Juancho Besanan, Justine Timbang and John Ivan Cruz settled for 30th, 31st and 50th places, respectively.
Last month, Yulo emerged with five golds and two silvers in a dominant show in the 31st Southeast Asian Games in Vietnam.
In the first two days of the Doha meet, Yulo topped the qualifying event of the floor exercises with 14.8 points to become the leader of the eight finalists, with Japanese Kohi Maeda in second (14.433) and Ryu Sunghyun of Korea in third (14.433 points).
Yulo received the nod of the judges in the vault with a 14.977 points to also emerge as no. 1 and become one of eight qualifiers, with Wai Hung Shek of Hong Kong (14.3) and Shiga Tachibana (Japan) with 14.284.
The Tokyo-based Yulo was sixth with 14.1 points to qualify in the ring finals with leaders Lan Xing Yu of China (14.9 points) and Ling Guan Yi of Taipei (14.367 points), with Mahdi Ahmad Kohani of Iran in third (14.367).
It was a seventh-place finish as Yulo collected 14.367 points and made it to the 8-man finals of the parallel bars, with Chinese top-notchers Lin Chaopan (14.284), Shi (14.867) and Yin Dehang with 14.833.
He missed the cut in the pommel horse after Yulo took 20th place and in the horizontal bar, where he ranked 19th.
The Chinese women also left their mark as they topped the podium, followed by South Korea and Japan, with Jin Zhang taking the gold in the all-around followed by compatriot Xijing Tang and Japan’s Yunseo Lee.
The apparatus finals will be held on Saturday and Sunday.