Romania's Marian Dragulescu took gold in the men's vault with two stunning performances, especially for a man who, at age 29, has already retired from gymnastics once. Dragulescu applauded the 02 Arena crowd in delight after his flawless second vault
Flavius Koczi, 22 (right), completed a one-two for Romania in the men's vault, but Dragulescu superbly executed a vault recognised as the most difficult in the world to claim gold
Chinese 17-year-old Deng Linlin, winner of a team gold medal in Beijing, added World gold with a sublime performance in the women's beam final. Deng capped a controlled performance with a superb dismount to win with a score of 15.000 points
Australia's Lauren Mitchell, competing last, fought her way to silver with a well-executed routine involving her trademark spin. But Romania's Ana Porgras fell from the beam, as she had done earlier in the week, squandering any chance of a medal
Romania wasn't the only country to dominate an individual apparatus final. China's Wang Guanyin and Feng Zhe took gold and silver in the men's parallel bars competition, Wang recording an impressive score of 15.975 with a textbook routine
Greece's Vasileios Tsolakidis thought he had done enough to win bronze behind the Chinese duo, but Japan's Kazuhito Tanaka claimed third place with the last routine of the competition, executing a beautiful landing having struggled with his handstand
Dutch star Epke Zonderland wowed the British crowd with a quite phenomenal routine on the high bar, producing exquisite moves rarely seen in the sport from barely any swing at all - but it was only good enough for silver, with a score of 15.825
Instead, China's gymnasts sealed their second gold medal of the day thanks to Zou Kai, who recorded an enormous score of 16.150 to become the new world champion
But the headlines will go to Britain's Beth Tweddle (centre), who won her second World Championships gold in the floor exercise, while Lauren Mitchell (left) and Deng Linlin (right) picked up their second medals of the day
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