Bhubaneswar: Odisha’s ace gymnast Tapan Mohanty secured a spot in the Floor Exercise Finals at the FIG Artistic Gymnastics World Cup in Baku.
The 22-year-old Mohanty aggregated a total score of 12.600 to qualify in eighth place.
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Check Mohanty’s floor exercise routine which helped him make the cut:
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Mohanty, who earlier represented the country in the 2023 Asian Games at Hangzhou and FIG Artistic Gymnastics Apparatus World Cup in 2024 (Cairo), will compete for a medal with seven other finalists, including Kazakhstan’s Milad Karimi who topped the qualifying round with a score of 13.833.
Jatin Kumar Kanojiya, the other Indian in the fray, missed out after scoring 11.333 to finish 12th.
