"Asian Elvis" Tang Jiahong has a chance to win the gold medal in the Gymnastics World Cup in his first appearance in 2025

2024 Paris Olympics bronze medalist, "Asian Elvis Presley" Tang Jiahong in the early morning of the 12th at the 2025 Gymnastics World Cup in Osijek, Croatia, soared 14.933 points in the men's horizontal bar preliminaries, advanced to the final with the first place, and had the opportunity to win the gold medal in his first appearance this season.

Tang Jiahong

The 28-year-old Tang Jiahong swept six horizontal bar gold medals in international competitions last year, successfully qualified for the Paris Olympics, and finally won a bronze medal for the Chinese Taipei team in the Hall of the Five Rings, which is also the first Olympic medal on the horizontal bar in the team's history.

Tang Jiahong will take a break after the Olympics, and then come back to the Chinese Taipei Training Center to prepare for this year's season. After a break of nearly 8 months, Tang Jiahong is now making a comeback in Osijek, and naturally wants to show his long-term training routine, he attacked with a difficulty score of 5.9 in the preliminaries, not only scored 8.933 points, but also landed perfectly, according to the new rules, he can also get 0.1 extra points, leading all the competitors with 14.933 points.

Entering the Los Angeles Olympic cycle, there have been many changes to the rules of gymnastics, except for the pommel horse, as long as the athlete completes the finishing move of difficulty C difficulty (or above) and stands on both feet and stabilizes, he can get an extra 0.1 points.