Evans wins silver as Martin and Fraser take bronze

On the final day of the Jakarta, Indonesian World Artistic Gymnastics Championships, Great Britain won three medals.

The team continued its excellence on the floor with silver for Ruby Evans and bronze for Abigail Martin, making Joe Fraser the first British gymnast to do so. He placed third overall.

Evans also won the first individual medal at the World Gymnastics Championships as a Welsh gymnast.

After Jake Jarman and Luke Whitehouse won the men’s floor final on Friday, it marked the British team’s remarkable 24 hours.

With the haul, Britain became the world’s leader in the floor competition. Former World Championships medalist Beth Tweddle described the journey that British gymnastics as a whole has taken.

Four out of the six floor medals awarded at this championships have come home from where we were 20 years ago.

With a 13.666 overall, Martin placed third at her first World Championships, while Evans, 18, placed second behind Japan’s Aiko Sugihara.

Sabrina Maneca-Voinea, a 17-year-old gymnast, was awarded bronze because of her higher execution score, despite having the same mark as her Romanian counterpart.

Fraser, 26, won a historic first bronze in the high bar this time, becoming the first British gymnast to win the parallel bars competition in 2019.