Feng crowned parallel bars champion

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China's Feng Zhe was crowned Olympic parallel bars champion at the North Greenwich arena thanks to an immaculate routine on Tuesday.

Feng scored 15.966 to take gold ahead of Germany's Marcel Nguyen in silver medal position with a total of 15.800, while France's Hamilton Sabot took bronze.
It was the first Olympic medal for France on the parallel bars, Sabot managing to hang on after he was the second to compete and scored 15.566.
Nine gymnasts competed as both Zhang Chenglong and Sabot scored exactly the same difficulty and execution marks in qualification.
Chenglong was the first man on the bars and missed his grip to come off and score 13.808.
Frenchman Sabot then went clean and mounted a strong medal challenge before China's second competitor, Feng, rocketed into the lead.
Olympic individual all-around silver medallist Nguyen produced a stylish routine to move into second place.
Daniel Corral Barron, Mexico's first male gymnast at a Games in 28 years, and Greece's Vasileios Tsolakidis did not trouble the top of the leader board and second-highest qualifier Japan's Kazuhito Tanaka could only move into fourth.
Tanaka's brother, Yusuke, struggled with small errors and took a big step on landing to leave him down in eighth place overall with Russia's Emin Garibov finishing sixth.