Suni Lee wins bronze on uneven bars
American gymnast Suni Lee won bronze on the uneven bars Sunday, matching her bronze in the same discipline from the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.
The latest hardware is Lee's sixth Olympic medal overall, tying her with Aly Raisman as the third-most decorated American gymnast.
Lee hit an almost perfect routine Sunday, edging out Belgium's Nina Derwael, the uneven bars winner at the Tokyo Games, by a hundredths of a point. Algeria's Kaylia Nemour won gold, and China's Qiyuan Qiu rounded out the podium with silver.
The win for Nemour, the reigning world silver medalist in the apparatus, gives Africa its first-ever Olympics gymnastics medal.
After being diagnosed with two chronic kidney conditions in March 2023, Lee returned to elite gymnastics less than a year ago. The 21-year-old continues the trend of American gymnasts dominating the uneven bars, with the U.S. winning a medal on the apparatus in all but two Olympics since 1992. Lee is also the only repeat American medalist on the uneven bars.
Lee will compete in the beam final Monday alongside teammate Simone Biles.