American Brody Malone soars to gold on the high bar at world gymnastics championships

JAKARTA Indonesia AP Brody Malone capped an impressive meet by the U S at the world gymnastics championships earning the second gold medal on high bar of his career during event finals on Saturday The -year-old American put together a thrilling set on the high-risk high-reward apparatus throwing a series of releases that propelled him to a just ahead of world all-around champion Daiki Hashimoto of Japan at Joe Fraser of Britain was third at Malone s gold which bookended the one he captured in the same event at worlds in came a day after longtime U S teammate Donnell Whittenburg earned the first gold of his career on Friday in still rings Malone and Whittenburg train together at EVO Gymnastics in Florida Donnell is an awesome teammate Malone advised Olympics com After I saw him the previous day the first thing he explained to me was It s your turn the upcoming day That was really motivating It s pretty cool that we get to go home to the same club gym with two gold medals Malone s triumph in his signature event came years after he shredded his right knee during a fluke accident on the high bar in early He recovered in time to win a third national all-around title in before helping the American men claim a cathartic bronze medal at the Paris Olympics The in recent times married Malone considered retirement in the aftermath but has chosen to press on at least for now He was rewarded with a gold that finished off a solid meet for the U S men s scheme The Americans won three medals in all during the meet including a bronze for Patrick Hoopes on pommel horse Carlos Yulo of the Philippines added another gold on vault to go with the one he captured on the same event at the Olympics his amount of just enough to top Artur Davtyan of Armenia at Nazar Chepurnyi of Ukraine earned bronze Zou Jingyuan of China continued his mastery of parallel bars winning his fourth gold on the event at worlds Jingyuan a two-time Olympic champion on the apparatus that requires a combination of strength and precision posted a the highest sum of the men s meet in any event outside of the he put up during qualifying Tomoharu Tsunogai of Japan claimed silver while Daniel Marinov a Russian competing as a neutral athlete won the bronze Aiko Sugihara of Japan won a pair of medals on Saturday The -year-old earned gold in the women s floor exercise at Ruby Evans and Abigail Martin both of Britain took silver and bronze Sugihara also earned bronze on balance beam behind gold medalist Zhang Qingying of China and silver medalist Kaylia Nemour of Algeria who added another medal to go with the gold on uneven bars she won on Friday The world championships will be held in the Netherlands next October AP Summer Olympics https apnews com hub -paris-olympic-games Source