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Brazil's Andrade takes vault gold as Biles settles for silver after fall / Photo: © AFP
Brazil's Andrade takes vault gold as Biles settles for silver after fall
Brazil's Rebeca Andrade won her second world gold in the women's vault as US star Simone Biles took silver after a fall during the final at the world championships in Antwerp on Saturday.
Olympic champion Andrade scored 14.750 points to take the title with Biles falling on the landing of her first jump, but taking silver with 14.549 and her 28th world medal.
Returning after a two-year break Biles over rotated her Yurchenko double pike vault named the Biles II after her, landing with her feet too far in front of her, and rolling onto her back.
South Korea's Yeo Seo-jeong scored 14.416 to win bronze.
On Friday, Biles was crowned all-around champion ahead of defending champion Andrade as she continues her return to competition, having also led the United States to a seventh consecutive women's team title earlier in the week.
She will also compete in the finals on the uneven bars later Saturday and the beam and the floor on Sunday.
Earlier, Olympic champion Artem Dolgopyat gave Israel their first ever world gymnastics gold in the men's floor final.
Dolgopyat scored 14.866 points to take the title ahead of Japan's Kazuki Minami (14.666), with Milad Karimi (14.600) giving Kazakhstan their first world medal since 1997 with bronze.
Ukraine-born Dolgopyat, 26, won floor silver at the worlds in 2017 and 2019, before claiming the Olympic title in Tokyo.
A. Walsh--BTZ
