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Petrounias wins Gold for Greece again at Gymnastics World Cup

Greece's gold winning Olympic champion in gymnastics Lefteris Petrounias has made Hellas proud again, taking first place in the rings final at the Gymnastics World Cup AGF Trophy 2017, adding another gold medal to his collection.

In his first international outing of the year, Rio rings champion Petrounias had an outstanding performance collecting 15.466 points at the Milli Gimnastika Arenasi, while "Zorba the Greek" was playing in the background and his fans cheered him along.

In second place was Japanese Kazuyuki Takeda (14.766 pt) and third was Yevgen Yudenkov (14. 233) from Ukraine.

Watch Petrounias' winning performance here- 

 

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