Yulo edged by Jarman for floor exercise gold at gymnastics worlds

The Philippines’ Carlos Edriel Yulo competes on the floor exercise during the men’s qualifying session at the 53rd FIG Artistic Gymnastics World Championships in Jakarta, Indonesia on October 19, 2025.

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MANILA, Philippines — Carlos Yulo’s gold rush has momentarily screeched to a halt.

It came to be after the Filipino Paris Olympics double gold medalist was denied the floor exercise gold by Great Britain’s Jake Jarman and settled for a bronze in the 53rd Artistic Gymnastics World Championships in Jakarta, Indonesia Friday.

The 25-year-old spectacle from Leveriza in Manila had a 14.533, which wasn’t enough to prevent Jarman from seizing the latter’s breakthrough mint with a 114.866 in the Worlds and in the same apparatus the former used to dominate.

Another Brit in Luke Whitehouse took the silver with a 14.666.

It was sweet revenge for Jarman, who had a bronze in Paris where he was reduced to a spectator by Yulo’s magnificence after the Filipino captured one of the two golds he snared in the French capital.

It must be Yulo’s hand, which he sprained going into the annual event.

It will be the same pair of hands that he will use when he shoots for a medal, possibly a gold, in the vault Saturday.

Yulo eyeing his third gold in Jakarta following his exploits in Stuttgart, Germany in 2019 and Kitakyushu, Japan three years ago.