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.
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.
