The Greek champion won the gold medal and became European champion for the seventh time! This is a historic success, as Lefteris Petrounias surpassed the legendary Hungarian Christian Berki, becoming the only athlete in history to have seven titles in the same organ.
The Greek gymnast passed with the best performance from the preliminary (14.966 points), in the final he scored 15.00, surpassing his main rival and last year’s European champion in Antalya, Adem Asil (Turkey), who scored 14.900 points.
The “golden” Greek Olympian managed to do what no other gymnast in the 69-year history of the institution. He became European champion after a great performance in the final of the rings, he reached 9 medals in the event, of which 7 gold and 2 bronze.
- Lefteris Petrounias (Greece) 15,000 (6.3 degree of difficulty + 8,700 execution)
- Nikita Simonov (Azerbaijan) 14,900 (6.2 + 8,700)
- Adem Asil (Turkey) 14,900 (6.3 + 8,600)
- Vincent Heck (Austria) 14,800 (6.1 + 8,700)
- Artur Avetisyan (Armenia) 14,800 (6.1 + 8,700)
- Courtney Tulloch (UK) 14,700 (6.0 + 8,700)
- Salvatore Maresca (Italy) 14.566 (6.2 + 8.366)
- Ibrahim Colak (Turkey) 14,500 (5.9 + 8,600)
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