This year’s Asian Championships begin tomorrow in Zunyi, China, where nations across the region will battle for team and individual spots for this year’s world championships.
What’s at Stake?
All of the continental championship meets this season most importantly serve as qualifiers for world championships, which will take place this autumn in Rotterdam, Netherlands. Unlike last year, nations can only attend worlds in 2026 and 2027 if they qualify teams or individual athletes. For MAG, the continent is allotted five teams and six individual all-around spots based on this week’s competition.
Of course, medals are also up for grabs here, including for team, all-around, and apparatus competition, which is the primary goal for the junior athletes who are also competing.
Who’s Competing?
A full list of competitors is below, with seniors in the left column and juniors in the right.
| AUSTRALIA* | |
| Marcus Casamento Joseph D’Souza-Bullman Conor McGillivray Lachlan Smith Blair Stewart |
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| BANGLADESH | |
| Md Rafil Ahamed Shishir Ahmed Rajib Chamka Wohai Mong Marma Abu Saeed Rafi |
Utingwang Marma Way Way Sai Marma Menton Toni Mro Prenthoi Mro Mongching Pro Tripura |
| CHINA | |
| Li Hongyan Liu Yang Tian Hao Yang Haonan Zhang Boheng |
Chen Junji Dong Li Long Houcheng Yang Lanbin Zhang Mohan |
| HONG KONG | |
| Cheung Ching Ng Ka Ki |
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| INDIA | |
| Tapeswaranath Das Swathish Kaitheri Puthalath Tapan Mohanty Satyajit Mondal Yogeshwar Singh |
Sk Nabhigh Ali Mohd Zaid Ansari Akshat Bajaj Harschit Damodharan Nishad Naravane |
| IRAN | |
| Mahdi Ahmad Kohani Mohammadreza Hamidi Hooman Jafari Amirabbas Mojahed Mahdi Olfati |
Pooriya Amanifard Rahin Hossein Panahi Iliya Kazemishiran Arshia Pourgholamkordi Parsa Rezapour |
| JAPAN | |
| Maeda Fusuke Hasegawa Tsuyoshi Miwa Teppei Tanigawa Wataru Tsukiyama Shoma |
Nishihara Ikki Tanida Tomoharu Yasui Eijun |
| JORDAN | |
| Zaid Al-Khalidi Ahmad Habeeb Saleem Naghouj |
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| KAZAKHSTAN | |
| Ilyas Azizov Nurtan Idrissov Roman Khegay Dmitriy Patanin Diyas Toishybek |
Mardan Duissenbek Artyom Kovalyov Doszhan Omirserik Andrey Terman Ilya Zaitsev |
| MALAYSIA | |
| Muhammad Sharul Aimy Muhammad Bariq Mat Daud Ng Chun Chen Wilson Yeoh Wei Sin Luqman Al-Hafiz Zulfa |
Hanis Firdaus Bashir Kai Jack Liew Nor Adam Hazziq Nor Azaha Anson Tan Yu Hang Marvell Vincent Voo |
| MONGOLIA | |
| Enkhtuvshin Damdindorj Usukhbayar Erkhembayar |
Khantushig Bat-Orgil Zolboo Bayanbaatar |
| NORTH KOREA | |
| Choe Wi Song Oh Myong Do Pak Song Hyok |
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| PHILIPPINES | |
| Miguel Besana Justine Ace de LEon Zachary Nuñez Carlos Yulo Eldrew Yulo |
Josue Matito Hillarion Iii Palles John Anthony Palles King Cjay Pernia Rodrigo Juan Woods |
| QATAR | |
| Mehrdad Ghadimi Al-Harith Rakan |
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| SINGAPORE | |
| Barr Badulattif Abdul Jovi Loh Cameron Pefianco Asher Pua Alfonso Tan |
Jed Gooi Samuel Loh Xavier Pang Nathanael Pek Aiken Tang |
| SOUTH KOREA | |
| Hur Woong Kim Jaeho Lee Junghyo Ryu Sunghyun Seo Jungwon |
Bak Junwoo Kim Taeyang Seo Hanul |
| SRI LANKA | |
| Virula Ambuldeniyage Thenuka Bandara Yashen Gunasekara Pradeep Menikalage Nadila Nethviru |
Rayan Oshen Rithika Riviyuga Isara Udagedara Yeshwin Walkadawatte |
| TAIWAN | |
| Chuang Chia-Lung Hung Yuan-Hsi Lee Chih-Kai Shiao Yu-Jan Tang Chia-Hung |
Chen Hsiang-Han Cheng Cheng-Yu Hsiao Yu-Lun Tsai Ping-Cheng Tseng I-Wei |
| THAILAND | |
| Suphacheep Baobenmad Weerapat Chuaisom Witsawayot Saroj |
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| UZBEKISTAN | |
| Alisher Boysarov Khabibullo Ergashev Utkirbek Juraev Ravshan Kamiljanov Abdulaziz Mirvaliev |
Alisher Abulfaizov Bekzad Bakhtiyarov Timur Kamaev |
| VIETNAM | |
| Dang Ngoc Xuan Thien Nguyen Phuoc Hai Nguyen Van Khanh Phong Tran Dinh Vuong Trinh Hai Khang |
Kasim Halimyang Pham Lam Bao Phuc |
*Australia is competing kind of as an exhibition and will not be eligible for world championships berths here having already qualified in Oceania
When’s It Happening?
Here’s the complete schedule. All times are local to Zunyi.
| THURSDAY JUNE 18 | |
| 10:00 am | Senior All-Around & Team Finals, Apparatus Qualifications Subdivision 1 (Bangladesh, Hong Kong, India, Malaysia, Mongolia, North Korea, Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam) |
| 2:30 pm | Senior All-Around & Team Finals, Apparatus Qualifications Subdivision 2 (Australia, Iran, Jordan, Philippines, Qatar, Sri Lanka) |
| 6:30 pm | Senior All-Around & Team Finals, Apparatus Qualifications Subdivision 3 (China, Japan, Kazakhstan, South Korea, Taiwan, Uzbekistan) |
| FRIDAY JUNE 19 | |
| 10:00 am | Junior All-Around & Team Finals, Apparatus Qualifications Subdivision 1 |
| 2:00 pm | Junior All-Around & Team Finals, Apparatus Qualifications Subdivision 2 |
| 6:00 pm | Junior All-Around & Team Finals, Apparatus Qualifications Subdivision 3 |
| SATURDAY JUNE 20 | |
| 3:00 pm | Senior & Junior Apparatus Finals Day 1 (FX, PH, SR) |
| SUNDAY JUNE 21 | |
| 3:00 pm | Senior & Junior Apparatus Finals Day 1 (VT, PB, HB) |
How Can We Follow Along?
You can stream the competition live on AsianGymTV.
Live scores and official result PDFs will be available via China’s scoring system.
Article by Lauren Hopkins
The Gymternet 