GB gymnasts Jake Jarman and Luke Whitehouse win world gold and silver on floor

It is the first time Great Britain have taken gold and silver at a world championships in the same event

Jarman claimed a second world title and a first on floor while Whitehouse won his first world individual medal (Getty Images)

Great Britain claimed the top two spots on the podium at the Artistic Gymnastics World Championships as Jake Jarman became world champion in the floor exercise for the first time.

The 23-year-old won the vault world title in 2023 in Antwerp and sealed glory on the floor in Jakarta, Indonesia with a score of 14.866 on Friday.

Having qualified in first place the pressure was on the Olympic bronze medallist, and despite a couple of hops on landing early in the routine he recovered well to nail the rest of his tumbles.

Triple European floor champion Luke Whitehouse made it a one-two for Great Britain for the first time, while two-time Paris Olympics gold medallist Carlos Yulo of the Philippines had to settle for bronze on 14.533.

Jarman is now the first male British gymnast to win individual world titles on different apparatus (Getty Images)

Whitehouse had qualified down in eighth place but rocketed up the standings with an assured and controlled performance, scoring 14.666 to claim his first individual world medal.

Jarman, the defending world vault champion, endured disappointment earlier in the week after failing to qualify for the final in that discipline, having won the European title in May with a stunning 15.2.

But the extra time he was able to dedicate to his floor routine in Jakarta paid off as he stormed to gold, becoming the first British man to win world titles on different apparatus. He faced a nervous wait after topping the leaderboard as former world bronze medallist Milad Karimi was the last to compete, but the Kazakh’s 13.6 was only enough for sixth.

Britain’s Harry Hepworth finished eighth in the men’s rings final after a stumble on landing, while debutant Alexander Yolshin-Cash took an impressive fifth place in the pommel horse final.

In the women’s events on Friday Algeria’s Kaylia Neymour became her country’s first world champion with a dominant performance on her specialist apparatus, uneven bars, finishing over an entire point clear of second-placed Angelina Melnikova with a huge 15.566. Melnikova took gold in the vault final to add to her all-around gold on Thursday.