Taiwanese artistic gymnast Tang Chia-hung won silver in the men’s horizontal bar at this year’s Doha World Cup yesterday, his first medal of the season.
Tang earned a total of 14.400 points in the final, with a 6.5 difficulty score and a 7.900 execution score — placing him just behind Kazakhstan’s Milad Karimi, who won gold with 14.500 points.
Speaking with the Central News Agency after the event, Tang, who won a high bar bronze at the Paris Olympics last year, said a slight flaw in his dismount likely cost him the chance of gold.
Photo: Cheng Ching-yuan, CNA
However, he said participating in the Artistic Gymnastics World Cups in Osijek and Doha provided a valuable opportunity to study the International Gymnastics Federation’s new scoring system for the 2025 to 2028 Olympic cycle and assess areas for improvement.
“I learned a lot from this trip,” Tang said.
Tang placed sixth in the horizontal bar final at the World Cup in Osijek on Sunday last week after a fall during his cat leap routine.
Undeterred, he traveled to Doha for the next leg of the World Cup series in pursuit of stronger results. There, he qualified for the finals in the horizontal bar and still rings events.
Tang finished fourth in the still rings on Saturday.
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