Daiki Hashimoto won his fifth straight artistic gymnastics national championships on Sunday after coming out on top in a battle between the last two Olympic men’s individual all-around gold medalists.
Hashimoto, the 23-year-old winner of the 2021 Tokyo Games, was second after Friday’s qualification round behind Paris Olympics gold medalist Shinnosuke Oka. But 85.464 points from six apparatuses in Sunday’s final lifted him to 169.695 in total, edging his 21-year-old rival by 0.600.
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