Asian Champs 2025 Medal Spherical-up

Let’s rank everyone! Continental championships weekend has come and gone, so it’s time to interrupt down the ultimate senior WAG medal depend from the 2025 Asian Championships.

TEAM GOLD
Qin Xinyi
Zhang Kexin
Zhang Xinyi
Zhang Yihan
Zhou Yaqin

VAULT GOLD
Zhang Yihan

UNEVEN BARS GOLD
Qin Xinyi

FLOOR EXERCISE GOLD
Zhou Yaqin

ALL-AROUND BRONZE
Qin Xinyi

UNEVEN BARS BRONZE
Zhang Yihan

BALANCE BEAM BRONZE
Zhou Yaqin

As anticipated, China and Japan dominated the medal depend, every popping out with 7 medals, however China took the highest spot in these essential medal standings with 4 golds to Japan’s 1.

China introduced a semi-A bunch to Jecheon that includes Olympians Zhou Yaqin and Zhang Yihan, although with out gymnasts like nationwide AA champ Zhang Qingying or Yang Fanyuwei of Jaeger 1/1 fame. The squad gained gold within the staff last that was additionally qualification and likewise the all-around last (effectivity!…?) in what turned out to be a aggressive battle with Japan that got here right down to lower than 4 tenths. In the end, China was in a position to drop some falls and survive—no less than primarily based on what we noticed when the dwell feed wasn’t parked on somebody having panic diarrhea on bars whereas doing a kip for the primary time—principally due to persevering with to be the perfect at beam.

China’s staff complete of 163.363 beat the rating Italy put as much as win the staff competitors at Euros, in addition to the US qualification rating at Pan Ams, so that they’ll take that any day.

Within the particular person medal division, Zhou Yaqin, Zhang Yihan, and Qin Xinyi all added a gold and a bronze every to the Chinese language medal haul. Who had Zhou Yaqin successful ground gold however not beam gold? Zhou scored 15.233 on beam in qualification for the highest mark of the brand new quad however then went to the Missed Connections web page through the occasion last for 14.166 and a bronze. She did return shortly thereafter to twisting-form and switch her method to a stunning gold on ground.

Zhang Yihan gained her particular person gold on vault, trying more and more comfy together with her Tsuk 2/1 that figures to be excessively mandatory for China’s team-score hopes this quad. Zhang YH’s bars bronze proved way more controversial as she fell on an inbar Gienger however nonetheless managed to win a medal together with her 6.2 D forward of hit routines from the likes of Kishi Rina (5.4 D), Tonya Paulsson (5.1 D) and Lee Yunseo (5.4 D).

Qin Xinyi took gold in that bars last with a snug hit, simply barely .033ing her means forward of the tougher routine from Nakamura Haruka in a last that actually may very well be an entire doctoral thesis by itself. Again on day 1, Qin saved up the tempo from her nationwide championship all-around silver medal with an AA bronze right here, achieved by way of successful China’s Most Keep-on-iest award.

ALL-AROUND GOLD
Sugihara Aiko

TEAM SILVER
Kishi Rina
Sugihara Aiko
Kawakami Saki
Nakamura Haruka

ALL-AROUND SILVER
Nakamura Haruka

UNEVEN BARS SILVER
Nakamura Haruka

BALANCE BEAM SILVER
Sugihara Aiko

FLOOR EXERCISE SILVER
Sugihara Aiko

FLOOR EXERCISE BRONZE
Nakamura Haruka

Sugihara Aiko is continuous to have the 2025 of her life, following up her NHK win by taking the Asian Championships all-around title a full 10 years after she gained her first continental AA title again in 2015. The star of Sugihara’s all-around efficiency was a 14.133 on ground that now has her becoming a member of Esposito within the rarefied FX14 membership this 12 months. Have they got leather-based jackets?

Sugihara gained the general particular person medal standings this 12 months with 4, including staff, beam, and ground silvers to her all-around gold. Most significantly, she will be able to now add successful an execution tiebreak over Zhou Yaqin on beam to her listing of accomplishments.

Nakamura Haruka additionally leaves this 12 months’s championship with 4 medals, taking 3 silvers (staff, all-around, and bars) and including a bronze on ground. The show-stopping second of the occasion for Nakamura was her silver-winning bars routine full with a Def and a piked Deltchev, which simply missed out on gold behind Qin—most likely as a result of Nakamura has 6 solid handstands in her routine. However we don’t care as a result of it’s value it to get a Def and piked Deltchev in there.

Japan practically managed to win a staff gold right here however didn’t, the wrongdoer being…you solely competed 4 gymnasts when the staff measurement was 5. Absolutely there was an entire further individual standing round who might have been used to get these 4 tenths you wanted.

BALANCE BEAM GOLD
Hwang Seohyun

TEAM BRONZE
Park Nayoung
Eom Dohyun
Hwang Seohyun
Lee Yunseo
Lim Sumin

Issues began slightly slowly-but-fine for the South Korean staff at their dwelling championship. They gained an anticipated staff bronze however didn’t actually get near China or Japan with a squad absent last-quad stars like Yeo Seojeong and Shin Solyi, and with Lee Yunseo restricted to solely bars.

However then beam occurred. New senior Hwang Seohyun broke out successful again tuck full together within the beam last on her method to a 14.633 that squished your entire remainder of the sphere and introduced her as the brand new Solely One You Care About. Beam as an entire was a spotlight for the Korean staff with Park Nayoung additionally delivering a facet aerial + bhs + loso sequence in her qualification routine that ought to make everybody jealous.

VAULT SILVER
Nguyen Thi Quynh Nhu

The veteran Nguyen produced by far the perfect results of her whole profession with a silver medal on vault right here, practically matching gold medalist Zhang YH on each the primary and second vaults. It’s the primary medal for the Vietnamese girls at an Asian championship since Phan Thi Ha Thanh’s vault win 13 years in the past.

VAULT BRONZE
Pranati Nayak

Persevering with the Dipa Karmakar custom of guaranteeing India all the time has a vault medal, Pranati Nayak took bronze right here with probably the most problem of anybody within the last, additionally displaying a Tsuk 2/1 first vault however pairing it with a handspring entrance pike 1/1 second vault to present herself the D edge.

Tonya Paulsson, now competing for Taiwan, gained this occasion’s Flying Pavlova trophy for many fantastic 4th-place finishes by main the Taiwanese squad to 4th within the staff competitors whereas concurrently inserting 4th all-around. She additionally superior to a few occasion finals, inserting fifth on bars with the perfect execution rating, sixth on ground, and eighth on beam after getting wolf-turnt.

Additionally, this girl was completely going to win a medal on beam earlier than she ate it: