October 9, 2017 - 12:35 AMT
Armenian gymnast comes in fifth at World Championships

Armenia's Harutyun Merdinyan took the fifth spot in the pommel horse event of the World Gymnastics Championships in Montreal, Canada.

Earlier at the all-round final of the ChampionshipsArtur Davtyan, also from Armenia, scored 83,332 points to take the 13th spot.

Olympic champion Max Whitlock won the pommel horse gold.

Whitlock, a five-time Olympic medalist, finished with a score of 15.441 to defeat Russian David Belyavskiy (15.100) and China's Xiao Ruoteng (15.066).