Men’s All-Around Gymnastics
To no one’s surprise, Yang Wei has realized the gold late last night (around 1:30 EST) in Men’s All-Around Gymnastics for China. Bringing the country to the top of the leader board in both overall medals (35) and gold medals (22), Wei scored an impressive 94.575 points in a multitude of events beating out Silver Medalist Uchimura Kohei of Japan by over 2.5 points. Rounding up for Bronze was 28 year old Benoit Caranobe of France, who was the first since 1920 to bring home a medal in an All-Around event. Wei, known prior as the “silver collector”, ranked Silver in this event during the 2000 Sydney Olympics against Alexei Nemov, as well as a second place score against Paul Hamm during the 2003 World Championships. Needless to say, this was an impressively solid win by Wei, which is easily going to elevate him to one of China’s most brilliant All-Around Gymnasts. With complete command over a variety of difficult skills ranging from floor exercise, parallel bars, rings, pommel horse, high bar, and vault, Wei was able to bring a second Men’s Over-All gold to china since Li Xiashuang in the 1996 Atlanta games.
