Taiwanese gymnast Tang Chia-hung on Sunday won a gold medal in the men’s horizontal bar at the Asian Championships in Jecheon, South Korea, his first-ever Asian Championships gold medal.
Tang scored 15.233 in the final, with 6.5 for degree of difficulty and 8.733 for execution, giving him the edge over 19-year-old runner-up Tomoharu Tsunogai of Japan, who scored a 15.
Tang performed the routine with the highest degree of difficulty among the eight finalists, the official results on the Asian Championships Web site showed.
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Tang, who won the bronze medal at the Paris Games, had qualified for the finals with a score of 15 that included a degree of difficulty of 6.1, but he decided to go for a more difficult routine in pursuit of the gold medal.
He executed the routine smoothly, but a small slipup cost him a potential 0.1 bonus. Still, he was pleased with his performance, pumping his fist in the air in celebration afterward.
Prior to the event in South Korea, Tang had competed in two World Cup gymnastics events so far this year, earning a silver medal on the horizontal bar at the Doha leg in April.
He also previously won a silver medal for Taiwan in the men’s horizontal bar at the 2019 Asian Championships in Ulan Bator.
Winning another medal at the Asian Championships after winning silver in 2019 was a form of recognition and a personal milestone, Tang said.
Tang said winning the gold at the start of this new Olympic qualification cycle showed that his training is on the right track.
“I plan to train in Japan in July and make some adjustments. My next competition will likely be in September. The biggest goal this year remains the World Championships at the end of the year,” he said.
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