The Rio 2016 men’s artistic gymnastics competition produced plenty of drama and highlights. Kōhei Uchimura set the tone by leading Japan to victory in the team event and then winning individual all-around, while Great Britain’s Max Whitlock won two titles of his own in the apparatus finals and Germany’s Fabian Hambüchen brought the curtain down on his career with gold in the horizontal bar.

Kohei Uchimura and his Japanese team-mates stormed to gold in the men’s artistic gymnastics team competition.

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Japanese sensation Takeru Kitazono won his fourth and fifth golds at the Youth Olympic Games Buenos Aires 2018 on Monday 15 October to become the most decorated artistic gymnast in YOG history.

The winner of five individual gold medals and a team silver, Japanese artistic gymnast Takeru Kitazono was one of the undoubted stars of the Youth Olympic Games Buenos Aires 2018.

Japan's Takeru Kitazono won his third artistic gymnastics title of the Youth Olympic Games Buenos Aires 2018 before USA’s Brendon Briones crowned a lengthy recovery from injury by claiming the vault title on Sunday 14 October.

Few athletes at the Youth Olympic Games Buenos Aires 2018 are generating quite as much expectation as 15-year-old Japanese gymnast Takeru Kitazono, who has been compared in his home country to the great Kohei Uchimura. 

Eleftherios Petrounias triumphed in rings with a score of 16.000, while Ri Se-gwang took vault gold despite a stumble.