Zhang Boheng of China edged Olympic champion Daiki


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Zhang Boheng of China edged Olympic champion Daiki Hashimoto on Friday to win the gold medal in the men's all-around at the gymnastics world championships. Zhang, who didn't qualify for China's team for this summer's Olympics, held a slim lead over local favorite Hashimoto heading into the final apparatus, the horizontal bar — an event Hashimoto won at the Tokyo Games. Melnikova wins women's all-around final at gymnastics worlds Zhang scored 14.800 points while Hashimoto received 15.133 but it wasn't enough to erase the deficit and the 21-year-old Zhang finished with 87.981 overall points to 87.964 for Hashimoto. "This is...