Pranati Nayak clinches Asian Artistic vault bronze

Chennai

Indian gymnast Pranati Nayak won bronze in vault at the 2025 Asian Artistic Gymnastics Championships in Jecheon, South Korea, scoring 13.466 to finish third behind China’s Yihan Zhang and Vietnam’s Nguyen Thi Quynh Nhu. At 30, Nayak claimed her third continental vault medal, surpassing Deepa Karmakar’s record of two. Nayak previously won bronze at the Asian Championships in 2019 (Ulaanbaatar) and 2022 (Doha). Fellow Indian Protistha Samanta narrowly missed the podium, finishing fourth with 13.016. Earlier this year, Nayak also earned bronze at the FIG Artistic Gymnastics Apparatus World Cup in Antalya, Turkey.