Liverpool, England, 6 Nov (Xinhua) -- The 51st World Gymnastics Championships ended in Liverpool, England, on 6 November, and on the last match day, China's Zou Jingyuan won the gold medal in the men's parallel bars event with an absolute advantage, which is also the third medal he won at this World Championships after the men's team gold medal and the silver medal in the rings.
The Chinese team won three gold medals in the men's team, men's parallel bars and women's uneven bars, as well as two silver medals in the men's all-around and men's rings.
Zou Jingyuan in the final of the parallel bars event. Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Li Ying
As the champion of parallel bars at the Tokyo Olympics and the gold medalist of the two consecutive World Championships in 2017 and 2018, Zou Jingyuan is undoubtedly the favorite to win the championship. He made his penultimate appearance, putting up a set of moves with a difficulty score of 6.900, the highest in the game, and at the same time scored 9.266 with excellent movement quality, and finally won his third World Championships parallel bars gold medal with a total score of 16.166.
"Actually, I thought about using the difficulty of 6.5 just now and watching the play, but then I still felt that I wanted to challenge myself more. This set of 6.9 movements has not been practiced, and I feel good today. Zou Jingyuan said after winning the championship.
Germany's Lucas Dawes, a silver medalist at the Tokyo Olympics, finished second with 15.500 points; the bronze medal was won by Carlos Yolo of the Philippines with 15.366 points.
Zou Jingyuan (center), Lucas Dawes (left) and Carlos Yolo at the parallel bars award ceremony. Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Li Ying
Yulo also won a silver medal in the men's vault that day. Armenian veteran Artur Duff won the title, while Ukraine's Igor Radivilov won bronze. The Chinese players did not qualify for the finals of the event.
In the women's balance beam final, China's Ou Yushan competed as the first qualifier. However, a foot injury limited her performance, and she fell during the competition, finishing sixth among the eight finalists with a score of 13.000. Japan's Hazuki Watanabe won the gold medal with 13.600 points, Canada's Elizabeth Black came in second with 0.034 points, and another Japanese player, Yoshiko Miyata, finished third with 13.533 points.
"Except for the falling action today, everything else is very good, and I am still satisfied with my performance." Ou Yushan said, "The injury on the foot is much better than in the team final, but the range of motion (range) is still relatively small, some movements are unstable, it will hurt, and then go back to recover from the foot injury." ”
Ou Yushan in the women's balance beam final. Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Meng Dingbo
In the final men's horizontal bar final, two Chinese players, Sun Wei and Zhang Boheng, finished fourth and fifth respectively, while American Brody Malone won the gold medal by 0.1 points against all-around champion Daiki Hashimoto, and the bronze medal was won by Arthur Mariano of Brazil.
Sun Wei in the men's horizontal bar final. Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Meng Dingbo
The gold medal in the women's floor exercise was won by British native Jessica Gadilova, followed by Jordan Chillis of the United States and Rebecca Andrade of Brazil in second and third place.