Zhang shocks Hashimoto to win all-around title at gymnastics worlds

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Chinese debutant Zhang Boheng beat Olympic champion Hashimoto Daiki by 0.017 points to win the men’s all-around title at the World Artistic Gymnastics Championships here on Friday.
Zhang, 21, competing in his first major international event, scored highest in the floor, vault and parallel bars and second-best in the horizontal bar and rings, collecting a total of 87.981 points. Hashimoto, who edged Zhang’s teammate Xiao Ruoteng to second place at the Olympic Games, took the silver with 87.964 points.
“I am too excited to sleep tonight,” said Zhang, who narrowly missed the Tokyo Olympics. “To beat Olympic champion Hashimoto and win the gold medal is a great achievement.”
Zhang’s title hope hung by a thread after he fell off the pommel horse, but after Hashimoto also slipped off the apparatus, the two gymnasts, who finished 1-2 in the qualifying campaign, returned to the starting point.