STUTTGART: China's Yang Wei retained his all-round title at the World Gymnastics Championships on Friday and 15-year-old American Shawn Johnson charmed the judges to win the women's event.
Yang had built up such a big lead that when he flew off the horizontal bar on his final apparatus he still managed to notch a total of 93.675, 1.475 ahead of second-placed Fabian Hambuechen of Germany. Japan's Hisashi Mizutori took the bronze.
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