Beijing time on October 24 news, the 2021 World Gymnastics Championships in Japan Kitakyushu City Comprehensive Gymnasium entered the last day. In the men's horizontal bar final, China's Hu Xuwei won the championship with 15.166 points, scoring two gold medals in one day (previously winning the parallel bars championship), Japan's Daiki Hashimoto was runner-up, The United States' Maloney was third,and Uchimura Hanghei was sixth. At this World Championship, the Chinese team topped the medal table with 5 gold, 1 silver and 2 bronze, followed by the host Japan with 2 gold, 5 silver and 1 bronze.
In the history of the men's horizontal bar at the World Championships, the Chinese team has reached the top a total of 6 times, producing 4 world champions. At the 1985 World Championships, Tong Fei overpowered the crowd and won the men's horizontal bar championship. At the 1989 World Championships, Li Chunyang performed well, defeating many masters and winning the championship.
At the 1991 World Championships, Li Chunyang was still in good shape, but Germany's Buchenir also had a good performance, and the two tied for the championship. In the next 20 years, the Chinese team did not win the championship, until the emergence of Zou Kai, the Chinese team achieved three consecutive championships in 2009, 2010 and 2011, of which Zou Kai won the 2009 and 2011 championships, and Zhang Chenglong won the 2010 championship.
In the last six World Championships, the competition on the men's horizontal bar has become more intense, with no Chinese player on the podium, the Netherlands' Zandrand climbing to the top three times, Brazil's Mariano on the highest podium in the last tournament, Croatia's Sabuić and Russia's Dalaroyan finished second and third respectively.
In this World Championship qualifier, Japanese rookie Daiki Hashimoto, born in 2001, performed best, ranking first with 14.633 points, and China's Hu Xuwei's finishing quality was comparable to Hashimoto's Dahui, but the difficulty was slightly inferior, followed by 14.533 points, and Kazakhstan's Karimi ranked third with 14.433 points. Japanese legend Kōhei Uchimura was finalist for fifth.
In the final, Hashimoto Daiki's state remained good, his turn and connection were in one go, the action specifications were relatively high, the lower method was relatively stable, and it was unanimously recognized by the referee, and Hashimoto Daiki scored 15.066 points, of which the difficulty score was 6.5, and the completion score was 8.566.
Japanese gymnastics legend Hanghei Uchimura is still insisting that at this World Championships, he only competed in horizontal bars and reached the final. In the final, Uchimura's difficulty was considerable, but the 720 turns and connections were flawed, and he finally scored 14.600 points, of which the difficulty score was 6.6 and the completion score was 8 points.
American Malone completed the set of actions with high quality, scoring 14.966 points, including a difficulty score of 6.5 and a completion score of 8.466 points. China's Hu Xuwei made his final appearance, he was full of confidence, the complete set of actions was completed cleanly and neatly, each connection was natural and smooth, there were almost no obvious mistakes, and the referee gave him 15.166 points, including a difficulty score of 6.7 and a completion score of 8.466 points.
In the end, Hu Xuwei won the championship, which was his second gold at the World Championships, Daiki Hashimoto was the runner-up, Maloney was the third runner-up, and Uchimura Hanghei was the sixth place.
In the women's free gymnastics final, Japan's Jasmine Murakami won the championship with 14.066 points, Russian Gymnastics Association athlete Melnikova finished second with 14.000 points, Chinese American Lianna Huang finished third with 13.833 points, and another Russian gymnastics association player Ulazova finished fourth.
At this point, the Gymnastics World Championships are all over, the Chinese team is at the top of the medal table with 5 gold, 1 silver and 2 bronze, the host Japan team is second with 2 gold, 5 silver and 1 bronze, and Italy, Russia, the United States, Brazil and the Philippines each won 1 gold.