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The Latest: North Korea's Se Gwang Ri wins men's vault gold

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — The Latest on the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro (all times local):

3:30 p.m.

MEDAL ALERT: Se Gwang Ri of North Korea picked up his country's second gold medal in Rio, edging Denis Abliazin for gold in the men's vault final Monday.

Ri's two-vault average of 15.691 was better than Abliazin's average of 15.516. The medal for Abliazin was his second in less than an hour. He earned bronze on still rings earlier Monday afternoon.

Japan's Kenzo Shirai earned bronze in a tiebreaker over Romania's Marian Dragulescu. The two vaulters both averaged 15.