Japan's Daiki Hashimoto competes on the rings in the men's individual all-around final at the Artistic Gymnastics World Championships in Rotterdam. (AFP pic)ROTTERDAM: Japan’s Daiki Hashimoto successfully defended his men’s individual all-around title at the Artistic Gymnastics World Championships in Rotterdam on Thursday ahead of China’s Yang Haonan and Britain's Joe Fraser.
Having already claimed team gold the previous day, the 25-year-old from Narita secured his seventh world title in the Netherlands and his fourth all-around crown in a row.
He took it by a comfortable margin, finishing 1.799pts ahead of Yang. It was the biggest winning margin in a men's all-around at an Olympics or a worlds in 13 years.
