Leyva Takes Silver in Parallel Bars, High Bar

The U.S. has collected five individual apparatus medals over the first two days of gymnastics event finals: Alex Naddour won bronze on vault, Madison Kocian won silver on bars, Simone Biles won gold on vault and bronze on beam, and Laurie Hernandez won silver on beam. They still have one day of competition left to go, with five more opportunities to make the medal stand.

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Men's parallel bars

Four years ago, Danell Leyva won all-around bronze and was the only U.S. male gymnast to win an Olympic medal. He didn't get a chance to go for another podium finish in the all-around final in Rio, but he did qualify for two event finals, both of which took place on Tuesday.

Leyva won silver on both the parallel bars and high bar. The triumph also served as a bit of redemption for Leyva, a bronze medalist in the all-around four years ago but who has struggled with his form recently. He was initially named an alternate to the Olympic team before filling in when John Orozco went down with an injury.

Leyva will leave Rio with the only two medals by the U.S. team. Teammate Sam Mikulak narrowly missed out on the podium by finishing a close fourth in the high bar final.

Oleg Verniaiev of Ukraine took gold on parallel bars, followed by Leyva and David Belyavskiy of Russia.

Fabian Hambuechen of Germany finally reached the top step of the podium in the Olympics by claiming the high bar title. A bronze medalist in Beijing and a silver medalist in London, Hambuechen's score of 15.766 was clear of Leyva's 15.500. Nile Wilson of Great Britain earned bronze.

WATCH: Qualifications: Danell Leyva Shines on Parallel Bars

Women's floor

After earning bronze on beam, Simone Biles will no longer be able to break the record for most gold medals won by a female gymnast in a single Olympics. But she can still tie the current record of four if she is her usual spectacular self on floor exercise. She's the three-time world champion on floor, was the top qualifier into the floor final by almost half a point, and hasn't made any major or even minor errors on floor over the last week and has the Rio-themed routine to get the Olympic Arena roaring.

Biles shared the all-around podium with Aly Raisman earlier in the week, and they're favored to go 1-2 again on floor. Raisman is the reigning Olympic champion. If she makes the podium, she'll receive her sixth Olympic medal.

Biles and Raisman were the only two gymnasts in the floor final with qualifying scores over 15 points, so the rest of the field will likely be fighting for bronze. Italy's Vanessa Ferrari, who won all-around gold 10 years ago at the 2006 World Championships, was the third ranked gymnast in the preliminary round. Switzerland's Giulia Steingruber could contend for her second bronze of the Rio Olympics.

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