Uchimura swings to horizontal bar gold

A high-flying routine on the horizontal bar allowed Kohei Uchimura to soar past his rivals and complete a hat-trick of gold medals at the world gymnastics championships on Sunday. The gymnast, who helped Japan end their 37-year-wait for a men's world team title before winning a record sixth successive all-around gold, ended the theatrical celebrations of American Danell Leyva and his step-father-coach Yin Alvarez with a score of 15.833. Alvarez wildly sprinted up and down the dugout when Leyva completed a routine featuring three gravity-defying release manoeuvres without suffering a repeat of his all-around final nightmare when he fell off the apparatus.
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