• Whitlock holds nerve to win his sixth Olympic medal
• Chinese Taipei’s Lee takes silver, Japan’s Kazuma bronze
Max Whitlock has remarkably defended his Olympic gold medal on the pommel horse, outclassing the field with a score of 15.583.
Whitlock is the first man in more than 30 years to retain a pommel horse title at the Games. In doing so, he has further heightened a level of dominance that is rarely seen in modern gymnastics. He has now won the pommel horse gold at the past five world championships and Olympic Games. The only time he hasn’t won the competition over the past six years, he produced an identical score as the winner, Xiao Ruoteng, but lost the tiebreak.