By Jason Hughes, PA International

England's Kanukai Jackson hopes his second gold of the Commonwealth Games will signal an end to the injury problems that have blighted his career.

Jackson, a vital part of the host nation's win in the men's team final on Friday, finished ahead of Australia's Philippe Rizzo and Canadian Alexander Jeltkov in a tense finale to the men's individual all-round event.

The victory was just reward for the Londoner, who missed the 1998 Commonwealth Games with a ruptured cruciate knee ligament and needed an operation in December to have fragments of bone removed from his ankle.

"After injuring my knee, I was worried about whether I'd be able to compete again on all six apparatus in an all-round event," said Jackson, who will go for a further six golds in the apparatus finals on Monday.

"But I had a lot of treatment and managed to come through all right, now I don't have any problems."

The turning point in the race for gold came in the penultimate round when leader Jeltkov fell off the pommel horse, immediately losing 0.5 points of his mark.

That mistake let Jackson into the lead for the first time after he turned in a near faultless display on the parallel bars moments later.

The 24-year-old then held his nerve on the high bar to make it another golden day for English gymnastics.

"I had mixed feelings when Jeltkov fell," he said. "It's easier to chase than be in front so I knew I had to have a good parallel bars to keep the pressure on."

Jackson listened to dance music on his personal stereo in between his performances to shut out the noise from the raucous Manchester crowd and keep himself focused.

He added: "Then on the last apparatus, you just treat it like training and in the past few weeks I have done that routine hundreds of times.

"You just try and draw on that experience and block everything out. You have to have tunnel vision and forget that it is for a gold medal and in front of thousands of people."

Jackson, however, claimed the team gold he helped England win on Friday meant more to him.

One of his team-mates Craig Heap, born in Burnley but now based in Newcastle, finished fifth and was delighted with his own performance as well as that of Jackson, who he has been sharing a room with at the athletes' village this week.

The 29-year-old said: "I was whipping the crowd up and maybe it got to Jeltkov in the end. I was so happy when he fell off. I know it's not sporting but I knew from then that Kadge would do it.

"When he did his release and catch on the high bar then that was it. I was delighted for him, although I do wish it was me.

"But I have had a great games and I am pleased with my fifth place. I am just the wrong side of 25 to be challenging for the gold in this event."

Jackson had started the competition nervously on the floor, losing vital marks in his score of 8.800 after he twice stepped outside of the white lines, handing the early initiative to Jeltkov, who finished fifth in this event in Kuala Lumpur.

Jackson, from the Harrow School of Gymnastics, recovered his composure and kept the pressure on his rival with a superb score of 9.600 points on the vault - the apparatus on which he won a European bronze medal earlier this year.

And Jeltkov, a former world silver medallist, cracked on the second last of the six apparatus - vault, parallel bars, high bar, floor, pommel horse and rings - that make up this event.

The mistake on the pommel horse unsettled Jeltkov, whose slip on the floor in the team event also cost them dear as England took gold.

Jackson's overall score of 55.025 gave him a margin of 1.175 over Rizzo, while Jeltkov was 0.2 further back.