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Home fans left stunned as Britain's silver turns to bronze

Gymnastics

Great Britain won their first men’s Olympic team medal in a century when they claimed bronze at the North Greenwich arena yesterday.

Louis Smith, Max Whitlock, Daniel Purvis, Sam Oldham and Kristian Thomas scored a total of 271.711 as they produced a stunning team performance in front of a royal audience.

Britain had initially been awarded silver but an inquiry into the score of Kohei Uchimura’s pommel horse routine saw Japan claim silver and Britain downgraded to bronze.

China retained their gold medal, with 2008 silver medallists Japan leapfrogging Britain’s score of 271.711 with an upgraded total of 271.952.

It came as a huge shock to both the gymnasts and the home crowd, with boos reverberating around the arena as Britain were stripped of their silver medal.

A medal of any colour would have exceeded all expectations for the British team up against the gymnastics powerhouses of the USA, Russia, China and Japan. But in a tense finale, it looked as if they had done enough to secure the bottom step on the podium after going head-to-head with Ukraine on the last piece of apparatus as the United States faded away.

Ukraine were in bronze medal position and Japan in silver with the final rotation to go, but brilliant performances on the floor by Whitlock, Purvis and Thomas saw them seal their place on the podium, as Japan faltered and finished in fourth before their protest produced the revised standings.

Matsumoto delivers for Japan

Kaori Matsumoto dedicated Japan’s first judo gold medal of London 2012 to her team-mates after claiming the women’s under-57kg title at ExCeL.

Extra-lightweights world number one Tomoko Fukumi had failed to make the rostrum on the opening day, while Beijing 2008 bronze medallist and reigning world champion Misato Nakamura had crashed out of the under-52kgs in her first contest.

There were, though, no such problems for Matsumoto, as the top seed and 2011 world silver medallist swept through her pool and on into the final against Corina Caprioriu.

When the contest entered golden score, the Romanian was penalised for an illegal leg-grab, handing victory to the elated Japanese fighter.

She said: “I am so very happy to be able to get gold on behalf of my colleagues.

“There was pressure, but I did what I wanted to do along the way which helped me to win the medal.

“I had a strong feeling to win, told myself to calm down, focus and not to give up.”

Romanian happy to emulate famous compatriot Comaneci

Romanian shooter Alin George Moldoveanu struck gold yesterday but admitted he is still some way from becoming his country’s most famous Olympian.

Moldoveanu won a titanic tussle with Niccolo Campriani of Italy to claim gold in the men’s 10m air rifle, after both men had equalled the Olympic record in qualifying.

He said: “I don’t think I can compare to Nadia Comaneci, but I would like to dedicate my medal to the people of Romania.”

Campriani is Italy’s second shooting medallist in London after Luca Tesconi also took silver in the 10m air pistol.

Gagan Narang, who missed out on the final in Beijing four years ago by a single point, took bronze for India’s first medal of the Games.