Ihor Radivilov
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 Igor Radivilov with his silver medal from the 2015 European Championships | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Full name | Ihor Vitaliyovych Radivilov | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Alternative name(s) | Igor Radivilov | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Born |
19 October 1992 Mariupol, Ukraine | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Residence | Kiev, Ukraine | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 5 ft 6 in (168 cm) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 67 kg (148 lb) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Discipline | Men's artistic gymnastics | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Club | Spartak, Donetsk | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Head coach(es) | Vyacheslav Lavrukhin | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Ihor (Igor) Vitaliyovych Radivilov (Ukrainian: Ігор Віталійович Радівілов; born 19 October 1992) is a Ukrainian gymnast.[1] Although he competes on all apparatuses, he is best known as a vault and rings specialist. He is credited as being the first Ukrainian-born gymnast after the fall of the USSR to medal at the Olympics and did so at the 2012 Olympics in London as the men's vault bronze medalist.
Personal life
Radivilov was born on 19 October 1992 in Mariupol, eastern Ukraine. On 4 September 2016, he married Ukrainian gymnast Angelina Kysla.[2]
Career
Radivilov won silver medal in vault at the 2012 European Championships in Montpellier, France. He competed for the national team at the 2012 Summer Olympics in the men's artistic team all-around and the men's vault. He earned a bronze medal in the vault final at 2012 Summer Olympics with a score of 16.316.[3] He also finished in fiourth place in the team all-around final as part of the Ukrainian team along with Mykola Kuksenkov, Oleg Stepko, Vitalii Nakonechnyi and Oleg Vernyayev.[4]
Radivilov won gold in rings at the 2013 European Championships. At the 2013 Summer Universiade in Kazan, he and the Ukrainian team (Vernyayev, Stepko, Petro Pakhnyuk and Maksym Semiankiv) finished second in the team final. He won bronze in the rings and vault finals behind Russian gymnast Denis Ablyazin.
In May 19–25, 2014, at the 2014 European Championships in Sofia. Radivilov contributed scores of 14.266 (floor), 15.300 (rings) and 14.700 (vault), helping his country win the team bronze medal with a total score of 262.087 points, behind Great Britain. In event finals, Radivilov won the silver medal in vault (15.050) behind Denis Ablyazin.[5]
At the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Radivilov debuted a new vault in the event final–a handspring triple front somersault–which had the highest difficulty score of 7.0. Although he sat down on landing, his feet (not pelvis) did touch the ground first, and thus, a score was given, which subsequently contributed to the International Gymnastics Federation (FIG) in formally naming the skill after him, the "Radivilov". However, due to the potential danger of injuries associated with training and/or competing this skill, the FIG has since officially banned it in competitions after the Olympics and removed it from the 2017-2020 Code of Points for men's gymnastics.
Eponymous skills
Radivilov has one "inactive" eponymous skill but an eponymous skill officially recognised by the (FIG) nonetheless, which has since been banned from competition entirely after the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro and removed from the Code of Points. The FIG had determined that the risk of injury when training and/or competing the skill is just too great for them not to officially intervene.
| Apparatus | Name | Description | Difficulty | Competition Achieved |
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| Vault | Radivilov | front handspring, triple front tucked somersault | 7.0 | 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro |
References
- ↑ London2012.com Archived 2013-02-28 at the UK Government Web Archive
- ↑ RADIVILOV Igor at fig-gymnastics.com at the Wayback Machine (archive index)
- ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2012-08-01. Retrieved 2012-08-01.
- ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2012-12-08. Retrieved 2012-12-08.
- ↑ "Ablyazin, Wilson Dominate European Finals". international gymnast. Retrieved 25 May 2014.
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