Jake is the wonderkid – Joe Fraser hails fellow golden boy Jarman

Joe Fraser hailed his “wonderkid” team-mate Jake Jarman after the England duo wrapped up their artistic gymnastics campaign with a glittering seven-gold total haul on the concluding day of apparatus finals at sold-out Arena Birmingham.

Jarman’s soaring triumph in the vault final made him the first English athlete to win four gold medals at the same Games since shooter Mick Gault in 1998, whilst Fraser, nursing a fractured foot, added to his previous success with a dominant display on the parallel bars.

A further gold on floor for Alice Kinsella, rebounding from the disappointment of missing out on the podium in the earlier beam final, ensured England would end a hugely successful campaign having claimed 10 of the 14 gold medals on offer.

Underpinning that success was Jarman, a 20-year-old competing in his first major multi-sports event whose two-leap average of 14.916 left him well clear of his team-mate Giarnni Regini-Moran, who took silver with 14.633 on his 24th birthday.

Fraser, himself only 23, said: “Jake is the wonderkid – he’s the future of our sport and I’m so proud of everything he’s achieved.

“It’s just beginning for Jake – the potential the guy has is unmatched, and having him on the team will be a huge asset moving forward.”

Jarman, who had already secured gold medals in team, all-around and floor competitions, reflected on a remarkable surge to prominence, which began when he was effectively talent-spotted by a local coach in a Peterborough park at the age of eight.

“I was a very hyperactive kid and when I was seven or eight I was in the park and a gym coach told my mum ‘you should bring your kid to the local club’,” he said.

“I was just swinging from the monkey-bars. I’d like to think I was good at the