Whitehouse, McClenaghan and Petrounias victorious at #Rimini2024

An exciting Friday evening in the Fiera di Rimini, where the senior men competed in their first three apparatus finals: floor, pommel horse and rings.  

Reigning World and Olympic Champion Artem Dolgopyat set the standard on floor as he always does. His 14.833 remained the score to beat until the last gymnast took to the stage. Defending Champion Luke Whitehouse knew he had to hit to have a chance of overtaking the Israeli. And he did just that! The Brit scored 14.866, a mere 0.033 making the difference between gold and silver. Whitehouse successfully defends his European floor crown, Dolgopyat earns the silver and Krisztofer Meszaros brings the bronze medal home to Hungary.

On pommel horse, defending Champion, and current World Champion, Rhys McClenaghan showed off his class yet again. Posting both the highest difficulty and execution score, the 24-year-old Irishman looked composed and in control as he stormed through an excellent routine. With a third European title in the pocket, McClenaghan seems right on track for the Paris Olympics. The 2022 silver medallist, Loran De Munck, repeated that feat here in Rimini today as he held off Cypriot Marios Georgiou who adds another medal to his steadily growing collection.

In the rings final, all eyes were on Eleftherios Petrounias. The last gymnast to perform, the Greek Lord of the Rings kept his cool under pressure, edging past Azerbaijan’s Nikita Simonov and defending Champion Adem Asil (TUR). Cheered on by wife Vasiliki Millousi and their two daughters, Eleftherios Petrounias is the European Champion on rings, once again, for a record-breaking seventh time! Simonov and Asil both scored 14.900, with the tie broken based on a higher execution score: silver for Simonov, bronze for Asil.

 

Congratulations to the medallists!

Floor

GOLD Luke Whitehouse (GBR) 14.866

SILVER Artem Dolgopyat (ISR) 14.833

BRONZE Krisztofer Meszaros (HUN) 14.600

Pommel horse

GOLD Rhys McClenaghan (IRL) 15.300

SILVER Loran De Munck (NED) 14.933

BRONZE Marios Georgiou (CYP) 14.800

Rings

GOLD Eleftherios Petrounias (GRE) 15.000

SILVER Nikita Simonov (AZE) 14.900

BRONZE Adem Asil (TUR) 14.900

Find the full results on 2024 Men's Artistic Europeans - Rimini (ITA) | European Gymnastics.

These Europeans continue tomorrow with the junior apparatus finals and the second part of the senior apparatus finals!