STUTTGART, Germany — Russia earned its first world men’s gymnastics team title since the breakup of the Soviet Union, while the U.S. just missed the podium to extend its longest global medal drought this millennium.
Russia overtook China, the top men’s gymnastics nation of the last 20 years, on the final rotation and ended up winning by a comfortable .997 of a point. Japan took bronze, followed by the U.S. and Great Britain in a repeat of the top five from 2018.
The Chinese led by 1.394 points going to last rotation on high bar, but Sun Wei fell on the first routine.