Former Auburn gymnast Suni Lee fell short of a fourth medal at the Paris Olympics as the artistic gymnastics competition concluded on Monday at the 2024 Summer Olympics.

In the final event for the sport at Bercy Arena in Paris, Lee finished sixth in the balance-beam competition with a 13.100 score.

Italy’s Alice D’Amato won the gold medal with a 14.366 score followed by silver medalist Yaqin Zhou of China at 14.100 and bronze medalist Manila Esposito of Italy at 14.000.

Lee and three of the other eight finalists slipped off the balance beam during their routines, including United States teammate Simone Biles, who placed fifth.

Several competitors cited the quiet in the arena – with little crowd noise and no background music – as unnerving during the competition.

“The pressure was definitely on,” Lee said. “I don’t know if you could tell, but a lot of people were definitely feeling it. I think it was the crowd but also just knowing that we’re so close to being done and just adding that extra stress of wanting to end it off the right way.”

Earlier at the Paris Olympics, Lee won a gold medal as the United States captured the artistic gymnastics team competition and earned bronze medals in the individual all-around and the uneven-bars competition.

At the Tokyo Olympics, Lee had won the gold in all-around, silver in team and bronze on the uneven bars.

At Chateauroux Shooting Center on Monday, Troy graduate Vincent Hancock won a silver medal as a member of the United States’ skeet mixed team. On Saturday, Hancock won his fourth gold medal in the men’s skeet competition. On Monday, Italy defeated the United States 45-44 in the gold-medal match in the mixed skeet event.

Competing with Austen Jewell Smith against Italy’s Gabriele Rossetti and Diana Bacosi, Hancock hit 23 of his 24 shots in the gold-medal match. He had gone 75-of-75 in the qualifying round to help the United States reach the gold-medal match.

Smith had won the bronze medal in women’s skeet on Sunday.

At Stade de France, Uganda’s Tarsis Orogot from Alabama and Zimbabwe’s Maka Charamba from Auburn ran safely into the men’s 200-meter semifinals.

Orogot won the second of the six heats in Round 1 in the 200-meter competition in 20.32 seconds.

Charamba ran faster at 20.27 seconds, but that put him second to Botswana’s Letsile Tebogo in Heat 3.

The first three finishers in each of the heat races advanced to the semifinals.

Former Crimson Tide sprinter Olivia Fotopoulou stayed alive in the women’s 200-meter dash by winning Heat 3 of the Repechage Round in a season-best 22.92 seconds. The winner of each of the four Repechage Round races and the next two fastest finishers advanced to the 200-meter semifinals on Tuesday.

Fotopoulou had finished fifth in the fifth of the six heats in Round 1 for the women’s 200-meter dash in 23.07 seconds on Sunday. The first three finishers in each of the Round 1 races advanced to the semifinals, with the rest of the runners sent to the Repechage Round.

South Africa’s Francois Prinsloo from South Alabama had a best throw of 61.35 meters in the men’s discus qualifying. That was 1.53 meters outside the top 12, who advanced to the medal round. Prinsloo’s throw was about 201 feet, 3 inches.

Mark Inabinett is a sports reporter for Alabama Media Group. Follow him on Twitter at @AMarkG1.