Max Whitlock wins historic bronze in Olympic all-around final

Team GB’s Max Whitlock has won Olympic all-around bronze in Rio, GB’s first medal in this final in 108 years. 

Max finished with a world class score of 90.641 behind Japanese legend Kohei Uchimura who took the gold (92.365) and Ukraine’s Oleg Verniaiev the silver (92.266).

It was a tense final with some incredible gymnastics from the world’s best. Max started his competition off on the pommel horse where he showed why he is the current world champion, scoring a strong 15.875 to get himself off to a great start. Moving on to the rings, perhaps one of his weaker pieces, he excelled and things just got better and better as he landed his extremely difficult vault and upped his game on the parallel bars. With only two apparatus to go, Max was right in the mix but it was a competitive final with several gymnasts still in the fight for a medal. Max made it safely through his high bar routine and then took to the floor. Up first in front of a big crowd, his routine was very impressive under pressure and he then just had to sit back and wait.

Japan’s Uchimura was pushed for the gold all the way by Ukraine’s Verniaiev, …

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