Men’s Floor Final | Tokyo Replays

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 (). 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 . _____________________________________________________ 👉 News from the Olympic world: 🔔