Let’s rank everybody! Continental championships weekend has come and gone, so it’s time to break down the final senior WAG medal count from the 2025 Asian Championships.

1. China – 7

TEAM GOLD
Qin Xinyi
Zhang Kexin
Zhang Xinyi
Zhang Yihan
Zhou Yaqin

VAULT GOLD
Zhang Yihan

UNEVEN BARS GOLD
Qin Xinyi

FLOOR EXERCISE GOLD
Zhou Yaqin

ALL-AROUND BRONZE
Qin Xinyi

UNEVEN BARS BRONZE
Zhang Yihan

BALANCE BEAM BRONZE
Zhou Yaqin

As expected, China and Japan dominated the medal count, each coming out with 7 medals, but China took the top spot in these very important medal standings with 4 golds to Japan’s 1.

China brought a semi-A group to Jecheon featuring Olympians Zhou Yaqin and Zhang Yihan, though without gymnasts like national AA champ Zhang Qingying or Yang Fanyuwei of Jaeger 1/1 fame. The squad won gold in the team final that was also qualification and also the all-around final (efficiency!…?) in what turned out to be a competitive fight with Japan that came down to less than 4 tenths. Ultimately, China was able to drop some falls and survive—at least based on what we saw when the live feed wasn’t parked on someone having panic diarrhea on bars while doing a kip for the first time—mostly thanks to continuing to be the best at beam.

China’s team total of 163.363 beat the score Italy put up to win the team competition at Euros, as well as the US qualification score at Pan Ams, so they’ll take that any day.

In the individual medal department, Zhou Yaqin, Zhang Yihan, and Qin Xinyi all added a gold and a bronze each to the Chinese medal haul. Who had Zhou Yaqin winning floor gold but not beam gold? Zhou scored 15.233 on beam in qualification for the top mark of the new quad but then went to the Missed Connections page during the event final for 14.166 and a bronze. She did return shortly thereafter to twisting-form and turn her way to a lovely gold on floor.

Zhang Yihan won her individual gold on vault, looking increasingly comfortable with her Tsuk 2/1 that figures to be excessively necessary for China’s team-score hopes this quad. Zhang YH’s bars bronze proved far more controversial as she fell on an inbar Gienger but still managed to win a medal with her 6.2 D ahead of hit routines from the likes of Kishi Rina (5.4 D), Tonya Paulsson (5.1 D) and Lee Yunseo (5.4 D).

Qin Xinyi took gold in that bars final with a comfortable hit, just barely .033ing her way ahead of the more difficult routine from Nakamura Haruka in a final that really could be a whole doctoral thesis on its own. Back on day 1, Qin kept up the pace from her national championship all-around silver medal with an AA bronze here, achieved via winning China’s Most Stay-on-iest award.

2. Japan – 7

ALL-AROUND GOLD
Sugihara Aiko

TEAM SILVER
Kishi Rina
Sugihara Aiko
Kawakami Saki
Nakamura Haruka

ALL-AROUND SILVER
Nakamura Haruka

UNEVEN BARS SILVER
Nakamura Haruka

BALANCE BEAM SILVER
Sugihara Aiko

FLOOR EXERCISE SILVER
Sugihara Aiko

FLOOR EXERCISE BRONZE
Nakamura Haruka

Sugihara Aiko is continuing to have the 2025 of her life, following up her NHK win by taking the Asian Championships all-around title a full 10 years after she won her first continental AA title back in 2015. The star of Sugihara’s all-around performance was a 14.133 on floor that now has her joining Esposito in the rarefied FX14 club this year. Do they have leather jackets?

Sugihara won the overall individual medal standings this year with 4, adding team, beam, and floor silvers to her all-around gold. Most importantly, she can now add winning an execution tiebreak over Zhou Yaqin on beam to her list of accomplishments.

Nakamura Haruka also leaves this year’s championship with 4 medals, taking 3 silvers (team, all-around, and bars) and adding a bronze on floor. The show-stopping moment of the event for Nakamura was her silver-winning bars routine complete with a Def and a piked Deltchev, which just missed out on gold behind Qin—probably because Nakamura has 6 cast handstands in her routine. But we don’t care because it’s worth it to get a Def and piked Deltchev in there.

Japan nearly managed to win a team gold here but didn’t, the culprit being…you only competed four gymnasts when the team size was five. Surely there was a whole extra person standing around who could have been used to get those four tenths you needed.

3. South Korea – 2

BALANCE BEAM GOLD
Hwang Seohyun

TEAM BRONZE
Park Nayoung
Eom Dohyun
Hwang Seohyun
Lee Yunseo
Lim Sumin

Things started a little slowly-but-fine for the South Korean team at their home championship. They won an expected team bronze but didn’t really get close to China or Japan with a squad absent last-quad stars like Yeo Seojeong and Shin Solyi, and with Lee Yunseo limited to only bars.

But then beam happened. New senior Hwang Seohyun broke out a hit back tuck full in combination in the beam final on her way to a 14.633 that squished the entire rest of the field and announced her as the new Only One You Care About. Beam as a whole was a highlight for the Korean team with Park Nayoung also delivering a side aerial + bhs + loso series in her qualification routine that should make everyone jealous.

4. Vietnam – 1

VAULT SILVER
Nguyen Thi Quynh Nhu

The veteran Nguyen produced by far the best result of her entire career with a silver medal on vault here, nearly matching gold medalist Zhang YH on both the first and second vaults. It’s the first medal for the Vietnamese women at an Asian championship since Phan Thi Ha Thanh’s vault win 13 years ago.

5. India – 1

VAULT BRONZE
Pranati Nayak

Continuing the Dipa Karmakar tradition of ensuring India always has a vault medal, Pranati Nayak took bronze here with the most difficulty of anyone in the final, also showing a Tsuk 2/1 first vault but pairing it with a handspring front pike 1/1 second vault to give herself the D edge.

Valiant Efforts for Zero Medals

Tonya Paulsson, now competing for Taiwan, won this event’s Flying Pavlova trophy for most wonderful 4th-place finishes by leading the Taiwanese squad to 4th in the team competition while simultaneously placing 4th all-around. She also advanced to three event finals, placing 5th on bars with the best execution score, 6th on floor, and 8th on beam after getting wolf-turnt.

Also, this lady was totally going to win a medal on beam before she ate it: