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Reuben Ward held his nerve and soaked up the adulation of a capacity home crowd as he was crowned Scotland’s first ever men’s all-around gymnastics champion at the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow.
Ward, who turned 21 last weekend, scored a total of 79.650 across his six apparatus, just enough to hold off surging Canadian Felix Dolci, who recovered from two falls on the pommel to take silver, with Australia’s Jesse Moore winning bronze.
“It’s an unbelievable feeling,” Ward said. “I only found out recently that no Scottish man had ever won the Commonwealth all-around title, so to make that bit of history is incredibly special.
“There were moments after I landed a dismount where I was just relieved to have got through it, and then I’d hear the crowd roaring. It felt like they were doing it with me. I wasn’t out there on my own.”
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