Israeli gymnast Artem Dolgopyat made history on Sunday, winning Israel its second-ever gold medal at the Olympics.
The athlete took home a score of 14.933 in the floor exercises.
The higher difficulty of his exercise is what put him over Spain's Rayderley Miguel Zapata, who got the same score but only took home the silver medal.
Dolgopyat added that "my floor exercise was not the best, in the qualifiers I did better. I was very stressed that it would not even be enough for a medal, but everyone was excited and made mistakes and that was enough for me and I am very happy."
The 24-year-old qualified for the Tokyo Games by winning a silver medal in the floor exercise at the 2019 World Championships held in Stuttgart, Germany.
Dolgopyat has proven over the last few years of competition that he is very capable of securing a spot on the podium just like he has done in the past which gave him a relatively good chance to be one of the pleasant surprises for Israel in Japan.
He will be heading home with NIS 500,000 in prize money for his new gold medal.
Idan Zonshine and Joshua Halickman contributed to this report.
