China's Liu Yang remains the gold standard in men's Olympic rings competition. The star gymnast successfully defended his gold medal from the 2020 Tokyo Games with another triumph in the 2024 Paris Games. Liu achieved a score of 15.300, edging out his teammate Zou Jingyuan and Greece's Eleftherios Petrounias.
Zou secured the silver medal with a score of 15.233, while Petrounias claimed the bronze with a score of 15.100.
Here are the full results:
1. Liu Yang, China: 15.300
2. Zou Jingyuan, China: 15.233
3. Eleftherios Petrounias, Greece: 15.100
4. Samir Aït Saïd, France: 15.000
5. Adem Asil, Türkiye: 14.966
6. Vahagn Davtyan, Armenia: 14.866
7. Harry Hepworth, Great Britain: 14.800
8. Glen Cuyle, Belgium: 13.833
The showdown between Liu and Zou was highly anticipated, as Liu was the reigning gold medalist while Zou had topped the qualification round. Both gymnasts entered the final with difficulty scores of 6.400, making execution the critical factor in deciding the outcome.
The gold and silver medalists weren't the only ones who impressed in Sunday's competition.
Petrounias added to his lengthy Olympic resume with a bronze thanks to his difficulty score of 6.300. That was higher than the difficulty score of 6.100 for France's Samir Aït Saïd, which allowed a small margin of error on execution for the Greek.
That proved important, as he finished with a score of 15.100 to win the bronze by .100.
Petrounias also won gold in the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Games and bronze in Tokyo.
The three medal winners prevailed in an eight-man final that did not include any Americans in the field. While the United States women have dominated the gymnastics competitions in Paris, nobody from the United States was able to qualify for Sunday's rings final.
