JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Donnell Whittenburg’s long journey to the top of the podium is over.

The 31-year-old American gymnast claimed gold on still rings at the world championships on Friday. The Baltimore native’s score of 14.700 was just enough to edge Adem Asil of Turkey and Lan Xingyu of China for the top spot.

Whittenburg has been a fixture in the U.S. men’s elite program for well over a decade, sticking with the sport at an age when most of his contemporaries have moved on. The trip to Jakarta marked Whittenburg’s sixth appearance at worlds, and the gold he earned joined the bronze he helped the American men capture in Japan in 2014 and the bronze he claimed on vault in 2015.

This one may be the sweetest of them all. Whittenburg’s training has taken him all over the country over

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