Reigning Olympic and five-time world all-around champion Kohei Uchimura, who had a successful start to the competition on vault, parallel bars and high bar, crashed a tumbling pass in the middle of his floor exercise. But he managed to deliver a routine up to his usual standard at the pommel horse and still rings.
He led the all-around rankings after all six events with 90.654 points. Britain’s Daniel Purvis was second in 88.956 and China’s Deng Shudi third in 88.832.
Uchimura will win an unprecedented sixth consecutive world all-around title if he repeat the performance in the final on Friday.
“I waited a long time and my body cooled down,” he said of the error. “So I couldn’t move as I wanted to. At the beginning of the exercise it was fine Simon Mignolet World Cup Jersey , but at the end, I couldn’t perform as I had wished.”
“It’s hard to say what we need to do to beat the Chinese in the team competition, because it’s never happened to me,” Uchimura said. “If we knew what we needed to do, we would do it.”
Ye Zhennan Romelu Lukaku World Cup Jersey , China’s team manager, believed that they can do better in the finals.