Shawn Johnson (born January 19, 1992) is an American artistic gymnast. She is the 2008 Olympic women’s balance beam gold medalist

Shawn Johnson’s balance beam routine is golden

BEIJING – Shawn Johnson and Nastia Liukin won gold and silver, respectively, on the balance beam in individual event finals Tuesday evening.

Johnson posted a score of 16.225 to take the gold, while Liukin claimed silver with a 16.025. The bronze medal was won by Cheng Fei of China with a 15.950.

Johnson’s gold is the second in the event by an American, following Shannon Miller’s at the 1996 Atlanta Olympic Games. It marks the first time the U.S. has won two medals in the event.

Liukin has tied the record for most medals won by a U.S. women’s gymnast at a single Olympic Games. Her five medals matches the feat first achieved by Mary Lou Retton and duplicated by Shannon Miller. Miller remains the top medal winner in U.S. women’s gymnastics history with seven.

Jonathan Horton won the silver medal in the men’s high bar in the gymnastics individual event finals. Horton scored a 16.175, only 0.025 behind the 16.200 scored by Zou Kai of China to take the gold. The bronze medal was won by Fabian Hambuechen of Germany with a 15.875.

The U.S. gymnastics team closes out the 2008 Olympic Games with a total of 10 medals won (two gold, six silver, 2 bronze), the fourth best medal haul at a single Olympic Games and the top total at an Olympic Games outside the United States. The most was 20 at the 1904 St. Louis Olympic Games, followed by the 16 each won at the 1932 and 1984 Los Angeles Olympic Games.

In wrestling, Henry Cejudo won the men’s 55 kg freestyle gold medal, beating Tomohiro Matsunaga of Japan Tuesday at the China Agricultural University Gymnasium.

Cejudo, a Mexican-American whose mother and father came to the United States separately without papers before he was born, grew up in Los Angeles and trains in Colorado Springs, Colo.

He came to the national team out of high school, rather than the more traditional path through college wrestling.

“This is what I said I was going to do,” he said. "I feel like I am living the American dream. The U.S. is the land of opportunities, and I am glad to represent it.

“Coming out of a Mexican-American background, it feels so good. Not many Americans get to do something like this.”

In the men’s triathlon, Germany’s Jan Frodeno kicked past Canada’s Simon Whitfield in the final 100 meters to capture the gold.

Frodeno finished in 1 hour, 48 minutes, 53.28 seconds.

Whitfield, the 2000 Olympic champion, held on for silver in 1:48:58.47. New Zealand’s Bevan Docherty bagged bronze in 1:49:05.59.

Three-time Olympian Hunter Kemper of Colorado Springs led the U.S. trio, placing seventh in 1:49:48.75. Jarrod Shoemaker of Sudbury, Mass., finished 18th (1:50:46.39) and Matty Reed of Boulder, Colo., took 32nd (1:52:30.44).