Max Whitlock Returns with GB Olympians

23 Aug 2016
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The BBC has reported that "Max Whitlock, Hemel Hempstead and Basildon gymnast was the first to disembark the Team GB plane returning from Rio today.

"The 23-year-old won two gold medals on pommel and floor, and a bronze in the all-around.

"Whitlock, who won Britain's first Olympic gold in gymnastics, led Team GB off the plane with Nicola Adams, who won the team's last gold medal of Rio in the boxing."

On 12 July 2016, Whitlock was selected for Great Britain's 2016 Olympic gymnastic team. During the Games, he first won a bronze medal in the all-round gymnastics event, which is Great Britain's first medal in this Olympic event for 108 years.

Days later he won the gold medals in the Men's Floor and Men's Pommel Horse events, becoming his country's most successful Olympic gymnast, and its first Olympic champion in Gymnastics.

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