Lefteris Petrounias was very good at his schedule, but a little extra step on the way out robbed him of the gold medal. Petrounias competed seventh in the final, already knowing he had to surpass the score of Chinese Yang Liu (15,500) and the other Chinese Elio Yu (15,300).
In the end, he collected 15,200 points and thus won the bronze medal, the second medal won by the Greek athlete after the gold he had taken at the 2016 Olympics in Rio.