No medal for Max as Great Britain narrowly miss out on World Championship bronze

Whitlock, along with Kristian Thomas, Dan Keatings, Dan Purvis, Nile Wilson and Courtney Tulloch were in contention for a medal right up until the final piece of apparatus where they were edged into fourth place by the USA.

The result does, however, represent Britain’s greatest ever result at a World Championship.

In a hugely tense finale to the competition, USA took bronze with a total of 270.369 to Britain’s 269.170; the gold going to China and the silver to Japan.

For a long time the British team were among the medals and Whitlock said: “Today was great; as a team we were so well prepared and so focussed and everyone did their job out there, we can be very proud as a team of what we’ve achieved.

“Again we have shown just how good Great Britain are at gymnastics.”