(Reuters) - Olympic champion Max Whitlock became the first British gymnast to retain a world title when he won the pommel horse gold medal at the gymnastics world championships in Montreal on Saturday. Whitlock, a five-time Olympic medallist, finished with a score of 15.441 to defeat Russian David Belyavskiy (15.100) and China's Xiao Ruoteng (15.066). "Making history again, I couldn't be happier," said Whitlock, who won Olympic gold medals in floor exercise and pommel horse at the 2016 Rio Games and also the world pommel horse title at Glasgow in 2015. There was also victory for another Rio individual champion, rings gold medallist Eleftherios Petrounias, on the penultimate day of the championships. Paseka (14.850) was joined on the podium by American Jade Carey (14.766)and Swiss Giulia Steingruber (14.466), the Olympic bronze medallist.

Source: The Star October 07, 2017 22:07 UTC