Amy Tinkler and Nile Wilson win gymnastics bronze medals
Last Updated: 16/08/16 8:38pm
Amy Tinkler and Nile Wilson took Great Britain's gymnastics medal tally to seven with bronze medals on day eleven at Rio 2016.
Tinkler, the youngest member of the Team GB squad at Rio 2016, took a third place in the women's gymnastics floor exercise and was followed a few moments later by Wilson's bronze on the men's high bar.
Tinkler, 16, took to the floor against the brilliant Simone Biles and while it was the American who took her fourth gold medal of the Games, Tinkler produced a wonderful performance to take third just four years after watching on as a 12-year-old at London 2012.
Biles, already winner of a gold in the team and individual all-round events, added to the vault gold and beam bronze she took a couple of days ago with a sensational routine that saw her awarded a brilliant score of 15.966.
But for Tinkler, she went one better than the fourth place GB took in the women's all-round event last weekend with a routine score of 14.933 that saw her become Britain's second female individual gymnastics Olympic medalist.
Another American, Alexandra Raisman, took the silver medal to complete an American 1-2 before Wilson took to the floor in the spectacular high bar.
Going third of the eight contenders, he produced a score of 15.466 after Germany's Fabian Hambuechen had racked up 15.766 with the first performance which was to be good enough to claim gold.
Wilson had the daunting task of following the gold medalist of London 2012 Epke Zonderland, but the Dutchman suffered a nasty fall to ruin his hopes of defending his title.
Wilson, 20, from Leeds, watched on as nobody was able to overtake him until America's Danell Leyva, with the last routine of the final, pipped him to silver with a score of 15.500.
Wilson and Tinkler add to the two golds (floor and pommel horse) and one bronze medal (individual all-round) won by Max Whitlock, a silver for Louis Smith (pommel horse), a bronze in the men's all-round team and a brilliant silver for Bryony Page in trampoline.
