Ryu Sung-hyun Advances to Floor Exercise and Horizontal Bar Finals in Men's Artistic Gymnastics, Targeting Medals

South Korean men's artistic gymnastics national team members Ryu Sung-hyun and Kim Jae-ho have both advanced to the individual apparatus finals in two events each.

During the men's artistic gymnastics preliminaries at the 2026 Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games held at the Nagoya City Gymnasium in Japan today (21st), Ryu Sung-hyun scored 14.566 points in the floor exercise, finishing second behind Carlos Yulo of the Philippines (14.600 points).

Ryu also secured a spot in the horizontal bar final by finishing eighth with 13.533 points, setting him up to challenge for medals in two events.

Kim Jae-ho scored 14.466 points in his first vault attempt and 13.833 points in his second, taking second place with an average of 14.149 points.

Although he ranked 9th overall in the parallel bars with 13.666 points, Kim earned a ticket to the final under the rule allowing a maximum of two athletes per country to advance.

Kim also placed 5th in the individual all-around with a total score of 79.197 points across six events, ranging from the floor exercise to the horizontal bar.

Lee Jung-hyo also recorded a total score of 77.498 points, finishing 6th overall in the individual all-around.

Additionally, Lee was named as the first reserve for both the still rings and parallel bars, meaning he will step in if any qualified finalists withdraw.

Huh Woong, who had been anticipated as a medal contender in the pommel horse, scored 13.833 points with a difficulty score of 6.000 and an execution score of 7.833, finishing 16th and failing to advance to the final.

The South Korean team—consisting of Ryu Sung-hyun, Kim Jae-ho, Lee Jung-hyo, Huh Woong, and Seo Jung-won—scored a total of 238.327 points across six events in the team preliminary, finishing 3rd behind China (255.361 points) and Japan (254.460 points) to advance to the final.

South Korea is aiming to win a team medal at this tournament for the first time in 8 years.

Having won team medals in 9 consecutive editions from the 1986 Seoul Asian Games to the 2018 Jakarta-Palembang Asian Games, South Korea finished 4th at the 2022 Hangzhou Asian Games.

The men's team final will be held at 1:00 PM the day after tomorrow (23rd).

(Photo: Captured from the official Asian Games website)
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