Latest news with #Women'sArtisticGymnasticsAsianChampionshipsinVault

Time of India

Pranati Nayak vaults to her third bronze medal at Asian Championships

Pranati Nayak on Saturday won her third medal at the Women's Artistic Gymnastics Asian Championships in Vault in Jecheon, South Korea. Nayak, who won the bronze medal twice in 2019 Ulaanbaatar and 2022 Doha, once again finished third in the standings with a score of 13.466. The gold medal was won by China's Zhang Yihan with a score of 13.650 and the silver went to Vietnam's Nguyen Thi Quynh Nhu, who got a score of 13.583. Meanwhile, India's Protistha Samanta also impressed during the same event and finished fourth with a score of 13.016. For Nayak, who struggled with a lot of injuries last year, 2025 has been a remarkable year so far. Not only did she win a bronze in the Vault final at the FIG World Cup in Antalya, Turkey, in March, she also won the gold in the All-Around final in artistic gymnastics at the National Games, besides a silver and two bronze medals. As far as this tournament is concerned, Nayak, who trains at the Gymnastics High-Performance Centre in Bhubaneswar, made it to the finals after qualifying in fourth place with a score of 13.083. As her coach Ashok Mishra had said earlier, she was quite confident of a good showing during the tournament and she did exactly that when it mattered. However, during the first vault — Tsukahara 720 Twist with fixed landing — Nayak took a couple of steps during her landing that resulted in a 0.3 deduction, something that might have ruined her chance of bagging a silver. by Taboola by Taboola Sponsored Links Sponsored Links Promoted Links Promoted Links You May Like Pinga-Pinga e HBP? Tome isso 1x ao dia se tem mais de 40 anos Portal Saúde do Homem Clique aqui Undo Her second vault — Handspring Pike Salto with a 360-degree turn — was what impressed the coach the most and she got a score of 12.866. "The score for the second vault during the final was even higher than that in the qualifying round. She will just have to fix her pre-flight and she will be all set. The next big target is to make it to the finals of the World Championships to be held in Jakarta in October and she has all the time now to perfect the executions," coach Mishra told TOI during an interaction from Jecheon on Saturday. While that will be quite a challenging task, the coach is confident of Nayak putting up a big show at the Asian Games and the Commonwealth Games next year. Mishra, meanwhile, was also pleased with Samanta's performance, "She has a lot of power and reached very good height during her vaults and is a medal prospect for the future. In order to achieve that, she will need to perform vaults with more difficulty." However, it's time now to celebrate Nayak's achievements, who has been India's only beacon of hope in gymnastics after Olympian Dipa Karmakar called time on her career last year. Follow more information on Air India plane crash in Ahmedabad here . Get real-time live updates on rescue operations and check full list of passengers onboard AI 171 .