Luck was not on the side of Carlos Yulo on Wednesday, as he settled for three silver medals to cap a long, busy campaign in the men’s gymnastics competitions of the 30th Southeast Asian (SEA) Games at the Rizal Memorial Coliseum on Wednesday.
Yulo took second place in the vault event by scoring 14.700 from the judges to yield the gold to Agus Prayoko of Indonesia, who rose on top with a 14.734.
Le Thanh Tung of Vietnam claimed the bronze with 14.617.
The 19-year-old 2019 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships gold medalist placed runner-up again, this time in the parallel bars event with his 14.600 score, which fell short to the 14.800 received by Vietnam’s Dinh Phuong Thanh, while Le got his second bronze for the day with 14.233.
In his last attempt to add a gold to his collection, Yulo could not just do it, as his 13.667 was only good for the silver and he lost again to Dinh, who got the nod of the judges with his 13.767 for his second gold.
Yulo thus completed his first SEA Games campaign on home soil with two golds and five silvers after starting out strong by topping the individual all-around event last Sunday and the winning the floor exercise finals on Tuesday.
Meanwhile, Mya Kalani Wilson placed seventh in the women’s balance beam with a 9.000 score in the event won by Malaysia’s Ang Tracie (12.867), while Ma Cristina Onofre took sixth place in the floor exercise final, as she was way behind gold medallist Abdul Hadi Farah Ann of Malaysia (12.600).