McClenaghan through to World Championship final

Rhys McClenaghan secured his place in the Pommel Horse final at the Artistic Gymnastics World Championships in Antwerp with a score of 14.933 placing third in the qualifiers.

McClenaghan completed his routine in Saturday's qualifying session and had a sweat on Sunday to see if it would be good enough, but no-one from Sunday's session was able to overhaul him.

The Irishman will now defend his World Championship title on Saturday 7 October.

McClenaghan said: "I'm very happy with my performance, it was enough to make the Pommel Horse final, my third World Championships final and my sixth World Championships as well.

"So I'm happy with how the performance went and I'm looking forward to improving on that performance in the final."

Teammates Eamon Montgomery, Dominick Cunningham and Adam Steele were also competing in qualifications at the 2023 Artistic Gymnastics World Championships in Antwerp with their top scores of 12.500 on Floor for Montgomery, 14.366 on Vault for Steele and 13.700 on Floor for Cunningham.

Cunningham was relatively pleased with his performance. "This is my 5th World Championships and I'm very happy with my progression here," he said.

"Unfortunately I didn’t qualify to compete on all 6 apparatus after a bad Europeans.But I qualified for floor and vault through the World Cup series.

"I came here to go for my upgraded routines, something I haven’t done for a long time. I felt competitive and I know I can do that bit more and be back competing with the big guns. Floor was great competing new tumbles and I felt good and had good feedback from the judges."

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