Canada’s Ellie Black gained a silver medal within the balance beam competitors for the primary time at a world gymnastics championship on Sunday in Liverpool, England.
The three-time Olympian from Halifax completed with 13.566 factors.
“To exit and hit a very good beam routine and find yourself on the rostrum, I’m simply so pleased with the efficiency and for exhibiting what Canadians can do,” stated Black, a silver medallist within the all-around at the 2017 world championships in Montreal.
Japan’s Hazuki Watanabe gained gold (13.600) and teammate Shoko Miyata took bronze (13.533).
WATCH | Black captures silver:
The Halifax native takes the ladies’s balance beam silver medal in Liverpool.
On Tuesday, the 27-year-old Black, Laurie Denommee, Denelle Pedrick, Emma Spence and Sydney Turner made historical past with Canada’s first-ever medal in a crew competitors, a bronze in Liverpool.
The efficiency earned Canada a spot within the ladies’s crew occasion at the 2024 Paris Olympics.
Black was additionally fifth two days late within the ladies’s all-around ultimate
WATCH | Black secures historic crew medal for Canada:
Ellie Black’s beam routine secured Canada’s bronze medal, their first ever world medal within the crew occasion, and a berth in that occasion at the 2024 Paris Olympics.
Malone will get uncommon gold for U.S. males
Brody Malone gained the primary world championship on the excessive bar by an American males’s gymnast in 43 years on Sunday.
Malone edged world and Olympic all-around champion Daiki Hashimoto of Japan in a detailed occasion ultimate.
The 22-year-old Malone, a two-time U.S. champion, led off the eight-man ultimate and posted a rating of 14.800. Hashimoto’s bid to earn a 3rd gold to go with the crew and all-around titles he captured earlier within the meet fell simply quick when he scored 14.700. Arthur Mariano of Brazil took the bronze with a 14.466.
Malone’s triumph was the primary by a member of the U.S. males’s crew on the excessive bar since Kurt Thomas in 1979.
“It’s fairly unimaginable, particularly going up towards a subject like that,” Malone, who’s from northwest Georgia and competes at Stanford.
Elsewhere, Zou Jingyuan of China posted the very best rating of the meet in any ultimate with a 16.166 within the parallel bars. Lukas Dauser of Germany took the silver at 15.500, with Carlos Yulo of the Philippines profitable the bronze at 15.366.