[Breaking News]Shinnosuke Oka wins gold medal in men’s gymnastics individual all-around final (August 1, 2024)

Paris Olympics 2024. Shinnosuke Oka (20) won the gold medal in the men’s gymnastics individual all-around. This is the fourth consecutive victory for Japan in this event. Oka, who is participating in the Olympics for the first time, showed stable performances on the floor and pommel horse and took the lead after the two events. On the following rings, he was unable to improve his score due to a lack of posture for the powerful technique, but he still managed to stay at the top. On the vault, he landed well, but dropped to third place. However, on his specialty parallel bars, he showed a spectacular performance and scored a high score of 15.100, once again taking the lead. On the final event, the horizontal bar, he showed a brilliant performance and scored 14.500, winning the gold medal. Oka won both the team and individual all-around. Taiki Hashimoto (22), who was aiming for his second consecutive victory in the individual all-around, fell on the pommel horse and had a technique that was not recognized on the rings, which led to a difficult battle in which he was in 18th place at the end of the first three events. Although they made a comeback in the second half, they finished in 6th place.
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