{"id":4840,"date":"2026-05-10T12:32:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-10T09:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/?p=4840"},"modified":"2026-05-10T12:32:00","modified_gmt":"2026-05-10T09:32:00","slug":"unstoppable-lefteris-petrounias-took-the-gold-at-the-panhellenic-at-the-european-games-we-will-fly-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/?p=4840","title":{"rendered":"Unstoppable Lefteris Petrounias: took the gold at the Panhellenic &#8211; At the European Games we will &#8220;fly&#8221; (video)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"546\" data-end=\"913\"> Lefteris Petrounias added another major distinction to his tally, winning first place and the gold medal at the Panhellenic Gymnastics Championships in the Kriak event. <\/p>\n<p data-end=\"913\" data-start=\"546\">The event took place this year in Thessaloniki, in the hall &#8220;I. Melissanidis&#8221; in the Mikra indoor stadium, with the top Greek athlete attracting all the attention. <\/p>\n<p data-start=\"915\" data-end=\"1164\">The so-called &#8220;King of the rings&#8221; presented a particularly demanding program and was praised by the fans in the arena. He showed that he is at a very good level, even though he did not yet feel fully prepared. <\/p>\n<figure>\n<div class=\"embed-responsive\">  <\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p data-start=\"1166\" data-end=\"1375\">In his statements after winning the gold medal, <b>Lefteris<\/b> <strong data-start=\"1227\" data-end=\"1241\">Petrounias<\/strong> revealed that he tried a new program with an increased level of difficulty, while leaving optimistic messages for the rest of the year. <\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1377\" data-end=\"1729\">&#8220;I came here to try a new one, the one I tried I&#8217;ve only done once since Cairo, when I had the back injury, we upped the difficulty level, I&#8217;m going to play at that level of difficulty and I wanted to try it here and to tell you the truth I wasn&#8217;t quite ready. I&#8217;m in very good shape, in the European we will be flying&#8221;, he said. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\n    Lefteris Petrounias added yet another great distinction to his assets, winning first place and the gold medal at the Panhellenic &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4841,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-greece"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4840","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4840"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4840\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}