Gymnastics World Championships 2022: Brazil’s Andrade wins 1st gymnastics worlds all-around Gold, GB's Gadirova takes historic silver medal..
Rebeca Andrade is Brazil’s first all-around gold medalist, crowned the top female gymnast at the world championships in Liverpool, England, on Thursday.
Andrade, won with 56.899 points, distancing the silver medalist, American Shilese Jones, just edging Dublin-born Gadirova into bronze by 0.200 points. Jones was 10th at last year’s Olympic Trials & Now she’s the world’s second-best gymnast.
British gymnast, Jessica Gadirova earned bronze for Great Britain’s first individual world women’s all-around medal. Last year, Gadirova had Great Britain’s best Olympic women’s all-around finish in history — 10th.
Jade Carey, the other American in the final, was sixth, two places better than her result in Tokyo.
Andrade, the Olympic all-around silver medalist, had the highest score in qualifying by 1.566 points.
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