European Championships 2018: Dominick Cunningham wins gold as Max Whitlock misses out
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2018 European Championships |
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Venues: Glasgow and Berlin Dates: 2-12 August |
Coverage: Live across BBC TV, BBC Radio 5 live and sports extra plus the BBC Sport website with further coverage on BBC iPlayer, Red Button, Connected TVs and mobile app |
Britain's Dominick Cunningham won European floor gold as Olympic champion Max Whitlock missed out on the pommel horse medals.
Ireland's Commonwealth Games champion Rhys McClenaghan, 19, won gold as 2014 winner Whitlock, 25, was seventh at the European Championships in Glasgow.
Cunningham, 23, scored 14.666 to beat Israel's Artem Dolgopyat and Russia's Artur Dalaloyan to the floor title.
British team-mate Courtney Tulloch won a bronze medal in the rings final.
"It's crazy. This is what dreams are made of," Cunningham told BBC Sport.
"It is incredible. It's been hard work, it hasn't been easy. This is what it's about, putting our professionalism on to the stage."
McClenaghan's win marked Ireland's first gymnastics medal at European level.
Whitlock scored 14.000 after a mistake mid-way through his routine, with McClenaghan scoring 15.300.
"It was one of those things," Whitlock told BBC Sport. "It's something to learn from. I'm happy with my score, but it can give me confidence in another way moving forward.
"It fires me up. Our programme is on track [for Tokyo 2020], and we're looking at the bigger picture."
Commonwealth Games champion Tulloch, 22, scored 15.000 to finish behind Greece's Eleftherios Petrounias and Turkey's Ibrahim Colak in gold and silver respectively in the rings final.
"I'm still young, I'm hungry," he told BBC Sport. "I made a little mistake so there is room for improvement and I know what I need to do to get on top of the podium."
Elsewhere, Joe Fraser finished eighth in the parallel bars final before placing sixth - behind team-mate James Hall, who was fifth -on the horizontal bar.
- Published8 August 2018