Overview
- Whittenburg scored 14.700 in Jakarta to finish ahead of Turkey’s Adem Asil (14.566) and China’s Lan Xingyu (14.500).
- The win caps his sixth worlds and joins earlier medals: a 2014 team bronze and a 2015 vault bronze.
- He hit a high-difficulty routine featuring his eponymous triple‑back pike dismount, two months after a scary fall on the skill at the U.S. championships.
- At 31, he is the oldest U.S. man to win a world gymnastics title, according to Forbes.
- He is slated for Saturday’s parallel bars final, as other event winners included Angelina Melnikova on vault, Kaylia Nemour on uneven bars, Jake Jarman on floor, and Hong Yangmin on pommel horse, with Americans Joscelyn Roberson and Patrick Hoopes earning bronzes.