Japanese Kohei Utimura in Rio defended the title in the gymnastic all -around

The Japanese gymnast Kohei Utimura won a gold medal in the personal all-around at the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro.

The 2012 Games champion in this form with a total result of 92.365 points in the last shell bypassed the leading Ukrainian Oleg Vernyaev (92,266), which eventually became the second. The difference was 0.099 points. The third place was taken by Briton Max Witlock (90.641).

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The 27-year-old Utimura became a three-time Olympic champion. Also on his account is the command gold of the Olympics in Rio de Janeiro.

Russian David Belyavsky (90,498) stopped a step away from the pedestal, becoming the fourth, his compatriot Nikolai Kuksenkov (87.732) took the 13th line in the final protocol.

It should be noted that our male team is left without medals in this type of program at four Olympiads in a grunt, since Alexey Nemov has become the owner of a gold medal at 2000 games in Sydney.