Great Britain's Max Whitlock has risen to the occasion once again and successfully defended his Olympic pommel horse title at the Ariake Arena in Tokyo.

The 28-year-old went first in the eight-man final on Sunday and posted a score of 15.583 that proved unbeatable, with Chinese Taipei's Chih Kai Lee coming closest on 15.400, and Japan's Kazuma Kaya winning bronze.

Whitlock is the first man to win consecutive titles in the discipline since 1980.

"This is probably the most pressured environment I've ever been in," he said.

"Experience pays a lot in situations like this and I'm just incredibly happy and thankful for the journey that we've been on to get here.

"Going up first is hard. Me and Scott (Hann, his coach) knew I had to go all out, I had to lay down a good score."

Earlier, Artem Dolgopyat won Israel's first ever Olympic gymnastics medal when he sealed gold in the men's floor exercise final on a tiebreaker.

It is only the second gold Israelis have won in any Olympic competition after Gal Fridman took windsurfing gold in Athens 2004.

Dolgopyat, twice a world silver medallist in the same event, tied with Rayderley Zapata of Spain on 14.933 points but prevailed due to the higher difficulty of his routine.

China's Xiao Ruoteng took the bronze for his third medal of the Tokyo Games.

Brazil's Rebeca Andrade took gold in the women's vault final after 2016 champion Simone Biles skipped the event to safeguard her mental health after struggling in the air during training.

Andrade, 22, who took silver in the all-around last week, recorded 15.083 to easily claim victory ahead of Biles' US teammate Mykayla Skinner with South Korea's Yeo Seo Jeong taking bronze.

In the women's uneven bars final, also without Biles, Nina Derwael won Belgium's first ever gold in gymnastics and their first overall in Tokyo.

Russian Anastasiia Iliankova did enough for silver and American Sunisa Lee, who took the all-around gold last week and silver in the team event, secured bronze.