UCHE Eke of Team Nigeria on Saturday was unable to reach the all-round final from subdivision 2 of the artistic gymnastics event at the Tokyo 2020.
The United States of America-based 23-year-old, who was making his Games debut and is the first athlete to represent Nigeria in Olympic gymnastics, scored a total of 74.765 points to place 36th at the Ariake Gymnastics Centre.
He went through six routines — floor exercise, pommel horse, rings, vault, parallel bars and horizontal bar — in the group of 66 performers.
Eke scored 13.433 in vault, 12.233 in parallel bars, 11.500 in horizontal bar, 12.833 in floor exercise, 12.866 in pommel horse and 11.900 in rings.
With the top 24 of the competitors to qualify for the final, Eke finished too far down the order, even after qualification was extended to 30th-placed Omar Mohamed of Egypt.
Mohamed advanced because of the rule that allows a maximum of two qualifiers from each participating country.
Daiki Hashimoto of Japan led the qualifiers with a total score of 88.531 points.
Artistic gymnastics is one of three disciplines in the sport, with trampoline and rhythmic gymnastics the others.
The finals of all the events will be held next week.
