2018 European Championships - Artistic Gymnastics, Men's Team Final - The SSE Hydro, Glasgow, Britain - August 11, 2018 - Artur Dalaloyan of Russia in action. REUTERS/Russell Cheyne
GLASGOW (Reuters) - Russian gymnasts won the men's team title at the European Championships for the third successive time on Saturday but only after their British hosts suffered calamities in the final horizontal bar duel while pushing hard for the gold.
Russia's five-man team of Artur Dalaloyan, Nikita Nagornyy, Dmitrii Lankin, David Belyavskiy and Nikolai Kuksenkov were leading by just 1.132 points from Britain going into the last of the six disciplines.
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