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Katie Stafford
Â鶹ԼÅÄ Sport journalist

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Great Britain's women's team missed out on a successive Olympic bronze medal by 0.234 of a point.

The quartet of Alice Kinsella, Georgia-Mae Fenton, Becky Downie and Ruby Evans scored 164.263 points but it was just short of Brazil's tally.

Team USA, featuring the now five-time Olympic champion Simone Biles, won gold while Italy claimed silver.

Downie registered the highest uneven bars score of the final with an impressive 14.933, while Ruby Evans pulled off a strong 13.966 vault at her Games debut.

"We said ‘we would go all out’ and we left everything out there," Downie told Â鶹ԼÅÄ Sport. "It is a shame it didn’t go our way today."

GB won women's team bronze at Tokyo 2020 for the first time since 1928. Of the team that featured in Japan, only Alice Kinsella remains because twins Jessica and Jennifer Gadirova were injured.

The disappointment for the women follows GB's men's fourth-place finish in the team final on Monday.

Great Britain's gymnasts, including Cardiff teenager Ruby Evans, have waited a good nine hours before confirmation came through that they have qualified for the women's team final.

This will be held at the Bercy Arena on Tuesday evening.