China’s Liu Yang continues to set the standard for the men’s rings competition at the Olympics, successfully defending his gold medal from the 2020 Tokyo Games with a win at the 2024 Paris Games. Liu achieved a score of 15.300, outshining his Chinese teammate Zou Jingyuan and Greece’s Eleftherios Petrounias.
Zou Jingyuan claimed the silver medal with a score of 15.233, while Eleftherios Petrounias took the bronze with a score of 15.100.
Here are the complete results:
- 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
The final was a close contest between Liu and Zou, with Liu ultimately edging out his rival. Both gymnasts entered the final with difficulty scores of 6.400, making execution crucial. Liu’s execution score of 8.900 narrowly surpassed Zou’s 8.833.
Petrounias, with a difficulty score of 6.300, secured his bronze with a final score of 15.100. This score allowed him a small margin of error in execution compared to France’s Samir Aït Saïd, who had a difficulty score of 6.100 and finished with a score of 15.000.
Petrounias adds this bronze to his previous Olympic achievements, having won gold in the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Games and bronze in Tokyo.
The men’s rings final in Paris did not feature any American competitors, contrasting with the dominance of U.S. women in other gymnastics events at the Games.
