Paris Olympics 2024: Liu Yang was the first Artistic Gymnast from China to win a Gold Medal in the Olympic Games. He won his first Gold medal in the 2020 Tokyo Olympics in 2020. He defended his title against his own team member Zou Jingyuan, who scored 15.233 and bagged the silver medal, Greece’s Eleftherios Petrounias Came 3rd with a bronze medal after scoring 15.100.
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Liu Yang won the Gold Medal straight in a row and became the first person to defend his still rings Olympic title since Japan’s Nakayama Akinori in 1968 and 1972.
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Official Ranking Of the Game
- Liu Yang, China: 15.300
- Zou Jingyuan, China: 15.233
- Eleftherios Petrounias, Greece: 15.100
- Samir Aït Saïd, France: 15.000
- Adem Asil, Türkiye: 14.966
- Vahagn Davtyan, Armenia: 14.866
- Harry Hepworth, Great Britain: 14.800
- Glen Cuyle, Belgium: 13.833
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Eleftherios Petrounias Performance
Eleftherios Petrounias Is a very decorated athlete who won gold in the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Games and bronze in Tokyo. He won the Bronze with a difficulty level of 6.300 which was slightly more than France’s Samir Aït Saïd which allowed him to win. Petrounias will march to the eight-man final in which no American men were able to qualify on the other hand American Women are dominating the gymnastics in Olympics.
Amir Sait is also a name to be noticed as he lost bronze with a small margin and he was badly injured in the Rio Olympics.
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