The 33rd Southeast Asian Games 2025 will not feature team events in gymnastics.
Because of this only three gymnasts have sure slots to the national squad.
Gymnastics Association of the Philippines president Cynthia Carrion said this after consulting with the technical committee of the SEA Games gymnastics competitions in Thailand.
“According to the technical committee, we can only have two individual athletes in each category,” said Carrion, who is currently in in Doha, Qatar for an Asian Gymnastics Union meeting.
With the limitations, Paris Olympics’ double gold medallist Carlos Yulo will get one of two slots in men’s artistic gymnastics, while Fil-American gymnasts Aleah Finnegan and Emma Malabuyo will get the two others in the women’s side.
Yulo has started training in a series of camps. He plunges into action first in the International Gymnastics Federation Apparatus World Cup from Feb. 20 to 23 in Cottbus, Germany.
Finnegan is currently competing for the Louisiana State University Tigers in the ongoing US NCAA Division I’s Southeastern Conference, while Malabuyo is participating in the University of California-Los Angeles’ campaign in the Big Ten Conference.
The biennial meet will feature 44 sports of 567 events, to be held in Bangkok, Chonburi and Songkhla from December 9 to 20 in Thailand.
Among the sports in the calendar are aquatic sports, athletics, archery, badminton, basketball, rowing, canoeing, cycling, fencing, football, futsal, golf, gymnastics, judo, shooting, table tennis, taekwondo, tennis, weightlifting, boxing, esports, karate, and chess.
There will also be three demonstration sports, namely flying disc, tug of war and air sports.
Many of the sports included are part of the Asian Games and Olympic systems.