Israel’s Artem Dolgopyat won a historic gold medal in artistic gymnastics, claiming the men’s floor exercise gold during the first of four apparatus finals. Prior to this, no gymnast from the nation had won a medal of any colour in the sport at the Olympic Games and only one other athlete has won gold in Olympic history – Gal Fridman’s sailing gold in 2004.
Dolgopyat came off the floor not knowing if he’d done enough, after a few bouncy landings and having incurred a .100 neutral deduction for going out of the area.
It took a moment for the score and placement to register with Dolgopyat matching the score from Rayderley Zapata of Spain (14.933). The duo had the same execution score, usually the tie-breaker. But the Israeli had a .1 advantage in the difficulty score to win the tie break.
China’s XIAO Ruoteng was the bronze medallist at 14.766. _____________________________________________________
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