Having won an Olympic gold medal in the individual all-around as the last six individual all-around world championships, Japan’s Kohei Uchimura is considered by some to be the greatest male gymnast of all time. Uchimura arrived in Rio intent on not only experiencing more individual success, but also leading his nation to gold in the team all-around after getting silver in Beijing and London. Monday afternoon that mission was accomplished, as Japan won the gold medal in the men’s team all-around competition.
Japan’s score of 274.094 was more than two points better than that of silver medalist Russia, which finished with a score of 271.