Olympic Men's Gymnastics 2016: Individual All-Around Medal Winners and Scores

With four years to prepare, the world's best male gymnasts came into Wednesday's all-around final with their sights set on knocking off Japan's Kohei Uchimura.

Ain't happening.

Uchimura saved his best for last, turning in a scintillating final routine on the high bar to come from behind and narrowly defeat Ukraine's Oleg Verniaiev for the gold medal. The 27-year-old, who previously won gold with Japan in the team event, ended with an overall score of 92.365.

Medal	Gymnast	Score
Gold	Kohei Uchimura (Japan)	92.365
Silver	Oleg Verniaiev (Ukraine)	92.266
Bronze	Max Whitlock (Great Britain)	90.641

His 15.8 on the high bar routine proved just enough to defeat Verniaiev, the 22-year-old who led coming into the final run. It's Uchimura's second consecutive Olympic gold in the all-around and his third medal overall. He was a dominant gold medalist in London four years ago and took home silver in Beijing in 2008 for his first Olympic medal.

It is the first time in 44 years we've seen a repeat winner in the men's all-around.

Great Britain's Max Whitlock also made history in earning bronze. Britain had not won a medal in the men's all-around since 1908. Robbie Savage of the Mirror congratulated Whitlock on his accomplishment:

Russia's David Belyavskiy missed out on medaling by 0.143 points and came in fourth.

The most minuscule moments made all the difference in the event.

Uchimura came into his final run trailing by nearly a point—a seemingly insurmountable deficit given Verniaiev's near-flawlessness. But he came back and did exactly what is expected of a champion. Setting the bar high with a difficult routine, Uchimura nailed his spots in his best routine of the day and put the pressure back on Verniaiev with a 15.8.

While Verniaiev went with an easier routine as expected, it was a questionable dismount that wound up costing him gold. His one hop was enough of a penalty to knock him down the one-tenth of a point of difference.

Overall, Japan now sits solidly in third place with 17 medals in Rio. It ranks behind only the United States and China in both the overall count and gold count. Verniaiev brings home the second silver for Ukraine but would have been the country's first gold-medal winner so far. Whitlock's bronze was Great Britain's sixth and 12th medal overall.