Artistic gymnastics

Women's artistic gymnastics may be one of the few Olympic events to feature music and choreography, but it doesn't mean the sport takes them truly seriously. In 2016, in the middle of the Rio Games, the specialist publication Dance Magazine declared that today's floor routines "insult dance."

Gymnast Lefteris Petrounias earned a medal for the third straight Olympics in the men's rings Sunday, a bronze.

Petrounias has also won gold in 2016 and another bronze in 2021.

From Rio to Tokyo and now Paris! The 33-year-old Lefteris Petrounias, a medal collector and king of the rings, has done it again!

Valentina Georgieva, an 18-year-old Bulgarian gymnast, has advanced to the final of the women's vault competition at the Paris Olympic Games. This marks Georgieva's debut at the Olympics.

Despite the mistakes he made in his routine, which cost him significantly, Eleftherios Petrounias secured a spot in the final (Sunday, 4/8) and made history

Eleftherios Petrounias of Greece performs on the rings during the men's artistic gymnastics qualification round at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris, on Saturday. The 34-year-old advanced to the final with a score of 14.800 points for his routine. "I've noted my mistakes and will make the necessary adjustments," the Greek champion said after his performance.

Chinese gymnast Zou Jingyuan won a gold medal in men's parallel bars at Tokyo 2020 Olympics on Aug. 3 as Turkey has bagged its first medal in gymnastics. 

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Zou scored 16.233 points at the Ariake Gymnastics Centre.

Germany's Lukas Dauser won a silver medal with 15.700 points while

The multiple world and European champion in artistic gymnastics Marian Dragulescu said, in an interview granted to AGERPRES, commenting on the isolation that all participants will be subjected to at the Tokyo Olympic Games in the context of the pandemic, that he is willing to accept 2-3 weeks of "prison" for the gold medal.

Romania will line up three female and three male gymnasts for the European Artistic Gymnastics Championships scheduled between April 21 and 25 in Basel, Switzerland, according to a post on the official website of the Romanian Gymnastics Federation (FRG).

Romanian gymnast Larisa Iordache won the gold medal in the floor event, having scored 13.450, at the 2020 European Championships in Women's Artistic Gymnastics, in Mersin, Turkey, on Sunday.