Carlos Yulo

Carlos Edriel Poquiz Yulo (born February 16, 2000) is a Filipino artistic gymnast who has won multiple medals at the World Artistic Gymnastics Championships. He is the first Filipino and the first male Southeast Asian gymnast to medal at the World Artistic Gymnastics Championships with his floor exercise bronze medal finish in 2018, and the first ever gold medal for the Philippines in 2019 on the same apparatus. This performance also qualified him to the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo.

In this Philippine name, the middle name or maternal family name is Poquiz and the surname or paternal family name is Yulo.

Carlos Yulo
Yulo in 2019
Personal information
Full nameCarlos Edriel Poquiz Yulo
Country represented Philippines
Born (2000-02-16) February 16, 2000
Malate, Manila
Training locationTokyo, Japan
Height1.5 m (4 ft 11 in)
Years on national team2018–present (PHI)
Head coach(es)Munehiro Kugimiya
Former coach(es)Ricardo L. Otero Jr.
Medal record
Men's artistic gymnastics
Representing the  Philippines
Event 1st 2nd 3rd
World Championships 2 2 2
Asian Championships 3 1 0
Southeast Asian Games 9 9 0
Total 14 12 2
World Championships
Gold medal – first place 2019 Stuttgart Floor Exercise
Gold medal – first place 2021 Kitakyushu Vault
Silver medal – second place 2021 Kitakyushu Parallel Bars
Silver medal – second place 2022 Liverpool Vault
Bronze medal – third place2018 DohaFloor Exercise
Bronze medal – third place 2022 Liverpool Parallel Bars
Asian Championships
Gold medal – first place 2022 DohaFloor Exercise
Gold medal – first place 2022 DohaVault
Gold medal – first place 2022 DohaParallel Bars
Silver medal – second place 2022 DohaAll-Around
Southeast Asian Games
Gold medal – first place 2019 PhilippinesAll-Around
Gold medal – first place 2019 PhilippinesFloor Exercise
Gold medal – first place 2021 VietnamAll-Around
Gold medal – first place 2021 VietnamFloor Exercise
Gold medal – first place 2021 VietnamStill Rings
Gold medal – first place 2021 VietnamVault
Gold medal – first place 2021 VietnamHorizontal Bar
Gold medal – first place 2023 CambodiaAll-Around
Gold medal – first place 2023 CambodiaParallel Bars
Silver medal – second place 2019 PhilippinesPommel Horse
Silver medal – second place 2019 PhilippinesStill Rings
Silver medal – second place 2019 PhilippinesVault
Silver medal – second place 2019 PhilippinesParallel Bars
Silver medal – second place 2019 PhilippinesHorizontal Bar
Silver medal – second place 2021 VietnamTeam
Silver medal – second place 2021 VietnamParallel Bars
Silver medal – second place 2023 CambodiaTeam
Silver medal – second place 2023 CambodiaStill Rings
FIG World Cup series
Event 1st 2nd 3rd
Apparatus World Cup 4 3 5
Total 4 3 5

Early life and education

Carlos Edriel Poquiz Yulo was born on February 16, 2000[1] to Mark Andrew Yulo and Angelica Yulo[2] in Manila, Philippines,[3] and was raised in Leveriza Street, Malate.[4][5] He is the second of five children; one of his younger siblings, Drew, is also a gymnast. Yulo grew up watching Filipino gymnasts train and compete at the Rizal Memorial Sports Complex in Malate.[6]

Yulo attended Aurora A. Quezon Elementary School for his primary education in Manila, where he was already training for the Philippine National Games as part of the National Capital Region's gymnastics team.[7] Through the support of the Gymnastics Association of the Philippines, he was able to attend Adamson University in Ermita for his secondary education.[2]

In 2016, Yulo accepted an offer by the Japan Olympic Association to train in Japan under a scholarship program. Caloy had to move to Japan, and that's where he started his further education at Teikyo University in Itabashi. Currently, Yulo is fluent in the Japanese language.

Not to mention, he commenced his study in 2013 and is devoted to a degree in literature. [8]

Career

Senior

[9][10] In his Gymnastics World Cup debut in the 2018 series, he consistently performed well, winning a medal in the Melbourne, Baku, Doha, and Cottbus events.[5] At the men's floor exercise event at the 2018 Asian Games, he scored highest in the qualification phase[11] but failed to secure a medal after finishing 7th in the final.[5]

At the 2018 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships in Doha, Yulo advanced to the all-around and floor exercise finals.[12][13] He won bronze in the floor exercise [14] becoming the first Filipino and the first male Southeast Asian gymnast to win a medal at the championships.[15] At the 2019 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships in Stuttgart, Yulo claimed gold in the floor exercise finals making history as the first Filipino world champion in artistic gymnastics.[16][17]

By advancing to the final round of the all-around event of the 2019 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships, Yulo secured qualification to compete for the Philippines at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo.[18]

At the 2019 Southeast Asian Games, Yulo finished on the podium in every event winning gold in the all-around[19] and floor exercise[20] and silver in the pommel horse, still rings, vault, parallel bars, and horizontal bar.[21][22]

Yulo reportedly trains for six to eight hours a day, six days per week.[3]

He clinched his first-ever Asian Championship title when he clinched the gold medal at the floor exercise of the 2022 Asian Artistic Gymnastics Championships in Doha after taking silver in the individual all-around. He followed it up with gold medals in the vault and parallel bars events.[23][24] [25]

Competitive history
Year Event Team AA FX PH SR VT PB HB
Junior
2014
Asean School Games1st place, gold medalist(s)2nd place, silver medalist(s)1st place, gold medalist(s)
Pacific Rim Championships68
2015
International Junior Competition3rd place, bronze medalist(s)
2016
Pacific Rim Championships3rd place, bronze medalist(s)1st place, gold medalist(s)2nd place, silver medalist(s)1st place, gold medalist(s)2nd place, silver medalist(s)
2017
Junior Asian Championships1st place, gold medalist(s)
International Junior Competition2nd place, silver medalist(s)1st place, gold medalist(s)
Senior
2018
World Cup Series (Melbourne)73rd place, bronze medalist(s)
World Cup Series (Baku)2nd place, silver medalist(s)
World Cup Series (Doha)2nd place, silver medalist(s)5
World Cup Series (Cottbus)3rd place, bronze medalist(s)
Asian Games774
World Championships233rd place, bronze medalist(s)
12th Toyota Cup International2nd place, silver medalist(s)2nd place, silver medalist(s)
2019
World Cup Series (Melbourne)1st place, gold medalist(s)
World Cup Series (Doha)3rd place, bronze medalist(s)
All Japan Championships3rd place, bronze medalist(s)
Asian Championships9447
All Japan Senior Championships1st place, gold medalist(s)
Southeast Asian Games1st place, gold medalist(s)1st place, gold medalist(s)2nd place, silver medalist(s)2nd place, silver medalist(s)2nd place, silver medalist(s)2nd place, silver medalist(s)2nd place, silver medalist(s)
World Championships101st place, gold medalist(s)
2020 All Japan Senior Championships3rd place, bronze medalist(s)
All Japan Championships3rd place, bronze medalist(s)3rd place, bronze medalist(s)
2021All Japan Championships3rd place, bronze medalist(s)
Summer Olympics4
All Japan Championships1st place, gold medalist(s)3rd place, bronze medalist(s)
World Championships51st place, gold medalist(s)2nd place, silver medalist(s)
2022Southeast Asian Games2nd place, silver medalist(s)1st place, gold medalist(s)1st place, gold medalist(s)61st place, gold medalist(s)1st place, gold medalist(s)2nd place, silver medalist(s)1st place, gold medalist(s)
Asian Championships92nd place, silver medalist(s)1st place, gold medalist(s)41st place, gold medalist(s)1st place, gold medalist(s)
World Championships87R22nd place, silver medalist(s)3rd place, bronze medalist(s)
All Japan Championships1st place, gold medalist(s)
2023World Cup Series (Cottbus)3rd place, bronze medalist(s)
World Cup Series (Doha)1st place, gold medalist(s)3rd place, bronze medalist(s)2nd place, silver medalist(s)
World Cup Series (Baku)71st place, gold medalist(s)1st place, gold medalist(s)
Southeast Asian Games2nd place, silver medalist(s)1st place, gold medalist(s)2nd place, silver medalist(s)1st place, gold medalist(s)

Awards

References
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