Commonwealth Games: Marfa Ekimova beats Anna Sokolova to wins the rhythmic gymnastics gold for England at Birmingham 2022.
- Marfa Ekimova made history for England by winning their first ever gold medal in the rhythmic gymnastics individual all-around final at the Commonwealth Games, scoring 112.300 overall.
An exciting final went to the wire with Cyprus' Anna Sokolova chasing Ekimova's score until the final discipline.
The triumph comes after she won team bronze on Thursday with compatriots Saffron Severn and Alice Leaper.
Ekimova was 0.700 points ahead going into the final discipline, the ribbon, where she posted a score of 27.100, putting her top and securing a medal before she had to watch two more gymnasts perform to find out which colour it would be.
Sokolova needed 27.800 points to win but managed 27.600, which earned her silver, while Australia's Alexandra Kiroi-Bogatyreva took bronze.
England's last medal in the individual all-around was in 1994 when Debbie Southwick won bronze in Canada, with the last rhythmic gymnastics medal coming in 2010 - a bronze in the team event.
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