Yang Wei Wins Gold in Men's All-around

Yang Wei of China, center, stands on the podium with silver winner Tomita Hiroyuki of Japan and bronze winner Fabian Hambuechen, right, of Germany in a ceremony for the individual all-around final during the Gymnastics World Championships at the NRGi Arena in Aarhus. )

Yang Wei extended China's dominance at world gymnastics championships Thursday by winning the gold medal in the men's all-around to go with his country's earlier victories in both team events.

Yang, a runner-up at the Sydney Olympics and at the 2003 worlds, gave China its third gold medal in three competitions so far this week in Denmark.

Defending champion Hiroyuki Tomita of Japan finished second behind Yang. Fabian Hambuechen of Germany won bronze.