Israel's Artem Dolgopyat won a historic gold medal in artistic gymnastics, claiming the men's floor exercise gold during the first of four apparatus finals. Prior to this, no gymnast from the nation had won a medal of any colour in the sport at the Olympic Games and only one other athlete has won gold in Olympic history Gal Fridman's sailing gold in 2004.

Dolgopyat came off the floor not knowing if he'd done enough, after a few bouncy landings and having incurred a .100 neutral deduction for going out of the area.

It took a moment for the score and placement to register with Dolgopyat matching the score from Rayderley Zapata of Spain (14.933). The duo had the same execution score, usually the tiebreaker. But the Israeli had a .1 advantage in the difficulty score to win the tie break.

China's XIAO Ruoteng was the bronze medallist at 14.766. _____________________________________________________
News from the Olympic world: https://oly.ch/Home
Subscribe & hit the bell: https://oly.ch/SubscribeGym
Exclusive documentaries: https://oly.ch/Channel
‍♀ Replays from #Tokyo2020: https://oly.ch/Replays