I came back real good on
parallel bars and got one there."
Jan Gwynn Timbang, the other men's artistic bet, will take his chances in vault, rings, horizontal bar, pommel horse,
parallel bars and floor exercise,
Only Whitlock wowed the judges on the floor and with China smashing it on the
parallel bars, it came down to the horse.
The USA and Japan were leading the way but a razor-close race for third emerged with Purvis in fine form on the
parallel bars as he scored 15.466 leaving Britain trailing Russia by the narrowest of margins - China loitering ominously on the fringes.
In the state team meet, she tied for ninth in the all-around, tied for fifth in the
parallel bars and placed eighth on the balance beam.
Senior and South Eugene graduate Chelsea Tang won the balance beam (9.925), tied for second in the uneven
parallel bars (9.900) and placed third in the floor exercise (9.900) for the Beavers.
England team-mate Sam Oldham suffered an ankle injury on the vault which ruled him out of competing in the
parallel bars, meaning pommel horse specialist Smith had to step up and absorb the pressure knowing his score on the apparatus was suddenly crucial to his team's medal hopes.
An array of excellence is then further represented by homeland accolades including Hamish Carter who was the under-16 British Overall bronze medallist and individual apparatus silver medallist on floor and high bar; Joe Fraser, the under-16 British individual apparatus gold medallist on pommel horse and
parallel bars; Emma White the senior Scottish overall silver medallist and beam and bars champion and Zara Turton, the junior national Down's syndrome hoop and ribbon gold medallist and ball and rope silver medallist.
Keatings added to his three senior golds earned on the pommel horse,
parallel bars and high bar on Saturday with victory on the pommel and p-bars.
On the
parallel bars, Nabeel settled for silver after Meshari Hamad of Kuwait won with a total of 16.90 points.
In the men's
parallel bars Zhe Feng is the favourite.
Grant Gardiner also medalled taking bronze on the
parallel bars.
