Artistic Gymnastics World Championships, silver plate on the crotch with handles

The Italian Gabriele Targhetta won a historic silver medal at the World Gymnastics Championships underway in Rotterdam.

The twenty-year-old, already gold at the recent European Championships in Zagreb, achieved a score of 15.233, and was only beaten by the Armenian Hamlet Manukyan, who won gold with 15.300. Third place and bronze for another Armenian, Mamikon Khachatryan.

For Italy it is the first world podium podium in the pommel horse after over a century.