The President of the Hellenic Republic, Prokopis Pavlopoulos congratulated Eletherios Petrounias on his gold medal in the men’s rings in the Rio 2016 Olympics. Pavlopoulos contacted Petrounias via phone at the Olympic village and wished he continue his ‘golden path in athletics’ and to retain all the straits in his life that made him a top example of a complete personality and a paradigm for the new generation.