Olympics: Israel's Artem Dolgopyat wins gold - in photos
Dolgopyat will be heading home with NIS 500,000 in prize money for his new gold medal.
By JERUSALEM POST STAFFTokyo 2020 Olympics - Gymnastics - Artistic - Men's Floor Exercise - Medal Ceremony - Ariake Gymnastics Centre, Tokyo, Japan - August 1, 2021. Gold medallist Artem Dolgopyat of Israel poses with his medal.(photo credit: LINDSEY WASSON/REUTERS)
Israeli gymnast Artem Dolgopyat made history on Sunday, winning Israel its second-ever gold medal at the Olympics.(Photo credit: Lindsey Wasson/Reuters)The athlete took home a score of 14.933 in the floor exercises.
(Photo credit: Lindsey Wasson/Reuters)The higher difficulty of his exercise is what put him over Spain's Rayderley Miguel Zapata, who got the same score but only took home the silver medal.(Photo credit: Mike Blake/Reuters)
Dolgopyat added that "my floor exercise was not the best, in the qualifiers I did better. I was very stressed that it would not even be enough for a medal, but everyone was excited and made mistakes and that was enough for me and I am very happy."(Photo credit: Lindsey Wasson/Reuters)
The 24-year-old qualified for the Tokyo Games by winning a silver medal in the floor exercise at the 2019 World Championships held in Stuttgart, Germany.(Photo credit: Mike Blake/Reuters)
Dolgopyat has proven over the last few years of competition that he is very capable of securing a spot on the podium just like he has done in the past which gave him a relatively good chance to be one of the pleasant surprises for Israel in Japan.(Photo credit: Lisi Neisner/Reuters)
He will be heading home with NIS 500,000 in prize money for his new gold medal.(Photo credit: Mike Blake/Reuters)Idan Zonshine and Joshua Halickman contributed to this report.
