"Asian Elvis Presley" Tang Jiahong leads the pack in the men's horizontal bar qualification round of the 2025 Asian Gymnastics Championships

On the 5th local time, the 2025 Asian Gymnastics Championships debuted in Jecheon, South Korea, and Chinese Taipei's "Asian Elvis" Tang Jiahong led the group with 15.000 points in the men's horizontal bar qualifying round, advanced to the finals, and had the opportunity to add another Asian Championships medal to himself.

Tang Jiahong

The Chinese Taipei team was led by Tang Jiahong in this Asian Championships, with Xiao Youran, Hong Yuanxi, Ye Zheng and Zhuang Jialong, who had been on the Tokyo Olympics.

The most eye-catching was Paris Olympic horizontal bar bronze medallist Tang Jiahong, who won his first medal of the season at the Gymnastics World Cup in Osijek, Croatia, and Doha in April.

In the Asian Championships individual qualifying round, Tang Jiahong scored 6.100 difficulty in the horizontal bar event and got 8.900 execution points, leading all players with 15.000 points, and he was also the only player to reach the 15-point mark. Ranked second is Kazakhstan's Karimi Milad (14.800 points) and China's Tian Hao (14.733 points), Tang Jiahong has a chance to win a medal as long as he plays consistently in the final, and his last Asian Championships medal was a silver medal on the horizontal bar in 2019.

"The Little Prince of Pommel Horse" Xiao Youran

"The Little Prince of Pommel Horse" Xiao Youran had an outstanding performance in the Pommel Horse Qualifying Tournament, ranking third with a difficulty score of 5.500, an execution score of 8.800 points, and a score of 14.300. Coach Zheng Kunjie said that the intensity of this Asian Championships is very high, and the good players from Asian countries (regions) have come out to adapt to the new Olympic cycle scores, and in terms of individual performance, Tang Jiahong and Xiao Youran are relatively stable. In addition to Tang Jiahong and Xiao Youran, Ye Zheng also advanced to the vault final, and Hong Yuanxi qualified for the floor final.