China’s Liu Yang did not stop setting the gold standard in the men’s ring competition at the 2024 Paris Olympics.
Yang defended his title from the 2020 Tokyo Games with another win in Sunday’s competition at the Olympics. He had a score of 15.300 to beat his countryman, Zou Jingyuan, and Greece’s Eleftherios Petrounias.
Zou went away with silver with a score of 15.233, while Petrounias earned bronze with a score of 15.100.
Here are the full 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 match between Zou and Liu was the game to watch, with Liu being the reigning gold medalist and Zou topping the standings after the qualification round. The two gymnasts went into Sunday’s final with identical difficulty scores of 6.400, making the execution scores the deciding factor.
Liu defeated Zou with a total score of 8.900, compared to Zou’s 8.833.
The game also witnessed a strong performance from Petrounias, who added to his extensive Olympic collection with a bronze medal. His difficulty score of 6.300 was above France’s Samir Aït Saïd, which afforded him a small margin of error in execution.
Petrounias ended the game with a total score of 15.100 to earn the bronze by a margin of 0.100. He earlier won gold in the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Games and bronze in Tokyo.
The three medalists won in an eight-man final that had no gymnasts from the U.S. No American men qualified for Sunday’s rings final, while the United States women have dominated the gymnastics competitions in Paris.
