Pranati Nayak Clinches Bronze In Vault At Asian Gymnastics Championships
Pranati Nayak bagged bronze in the vault final at the 12th Senior Women's Asian Artistic Gymnastics Championships in South Korea.
Indian gymnast Pranati Nayak secured a bronze medal in the vault final at the 12th Senior Women's Asian Artistic Gymnastics Championships in Jecheon, South Korea, on Saturday.
The 30-year-old, who also claimed bronze at the FIG World Cup in Antalya, Turkey, in March this year, scored 13.466 to finish third.
China's Yihan Zhang won gold with a score of 13.650, while Vietnam's Thi Quynh Nhu Nguyen took silver with 13.583.
Young Indian gymnast Protistha Samanta narrowly missed a medal, finishing fourth with a score of 13.016 at the Jecheon Gymnasium.
This achievement marks Nayak's third medal at the continental championships, surpassing veteran gymnast Dipa Karmakar's two medals. Nayak previously won bronze in the vault at the 2019 edition in Ulaanbaatar and again in 2022 in Doha.
Karmakar won her first continental medal, a vault bronze, at Hiroshima in 2015 and followed it with gold in Tashkent earlier this year.
Nayak, a Tokyo 2020 Olympian, scored a strong 13.666 in her first vault attempt in the final, but a lower second score of 12.866 affected her overall result.
She had entered the final after placing fourth in the qualification round with a score of 13.083. Protistha also made it to the medal round, qualifying with a commendable 12.916.
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