ANTWERP, Oct. 5 (Xinhua) — Tokyo Olympic champion Daiki Hashimoto of Japan secured his second consecutive world all-around title with 86.132 factors on Thursday in an exhilarating last on the 52nd FIG Artistic Gymnastics World Championships.
With this gold, Hashimoto turns into the primary man to repeat as world all-around champion since Japan’s Uchimura Kohei, who received six in a row from 2009 to 2015.
Silver medalist Illia Kovtun of Ukraine emerged from deep inside the chasing pack to earn his second world all-around medal in three years with a rating of 84.998. As the bronze medalist in his World Championships debut in 2021, he was solely the nineteenth greatest performer in qualification in Antwerp.
19-year-old Frederick Richard from the United States ended a 13-year U.S. males’s medals drought by clinching bronze in his first particular person world last.
The competitors was tight by way of the primary 4 rotations the place lower than some extent separated six main performers: Sun Wei of China, Hashimoto, Kovtun, Jake Jarman of Britain, Richard, and high qualifier Kenta Chiba from Japan.
Unlike his rivals, Hashimoto made his greatest mistake early within the first rotation of flooring train. He scored solely 13.466 factors, touchdown him within the seventeenth place among the many 24 opponents.
However, he completed all the opposite 5 equipment with high three scores and received the best rating of 14.500 within the final rotation on horizontal bar.
China’s 28-year-old Sun Wei led the general scores as the highest two earlier than the fifth rotation of flooring train the place he stepped out of bounds to incur a 0.3-point penalty. Sun misplaced management on the pommel horse as he fell off twice to complete with solely 12.300. His complete rating of 82.698 landed him in seventh place.
The Antwerp occasion will proceed with the ladies’s all-around last on Friday night. China’s 16-year-old world debutant Qiu Qiyuan will be a part of the competitors.