July 29, 2012 2:11 PM

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Japan's Uchimura wins gold in individual all-around gymnastics

Japan's Kohei Uchimura has won the gold medal in the individual all-around gymnastics final in the London Olympics. Everything went superbly to plan for the 23-year-old pre-Games favourite at the North Greenwich Arena yesterday and he finished 1.659 points ahead ofan excited Marcel Nguyen, who took Germany's first silver medal in the event since the 1904 Games. American Danell Leyva stormed back from a poor start with a roof-raising horizontal bar routine to snatch the bronze from Ukraine's Mykola Kuksenkov in the final rotation.

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