GOLDEN-BOY JAKE’S JUST FOURSOME

JAKE JARMAN only got into gymnastics when a coach spotted him swinging on a climbing frame in a playground when he was seven.

But yesterday he became the first Englishman to win four gymnastic golds at the same Commonwealth Games. Jarman (left), 20, added the vault crown to his all-around, floor and team golds from earlier in the week, in what was his first senior championships, surpassing Max Whitlock’s treble at Glasgow 2014.

He said: “I was a very hyperactive kid. When I was seven I was in the park in Peterborough and my mum told me a gym coach was in the park at the same time, and told my mum you should bring your kid to a local club.

“I was just swinging from the monkey bars. I’d like to think I was good at them, it was one of the things I loved to do when I was younger.” It is quite the journey for Jarman who will now be looking ahead to Paris 2024 with confidence. He added: “I’m happy with how things are going at the moment and if I make it on to the Olympic team I’ll have achieved what I set out to do.” Birthday boy Giarnni Regini-Moran (left, top), 24, finished second to team-mate Jarman to make it two silvers, gold and bronze for the Games. Joe Fraser, who suffered a ruptured appendix five weeks ago and a fractured foot a fortnight before the Games, came up short in his bid to join Jarman on four golds.

The local favourite came off the horizontal bar in the final and finished outside the medals after winning gold earlier in the day on the parallel bars to add to his pommel horse and team titles.

But Fraser (left), 23, was full of praise for Jarman, saying: “He’s the wonderkid, he’s the future of our sport and I’m so proud of everything he’s achieved.”