Nikita Nagornyy

This name uses Eastern Slavic naming customs; the patronymic is Vladimirovich and the family name is Nagornyy.
Nikita Nagornyy
— Gymnast —

Nikita Nagornyy with his gold medal from the 2015 European Championships
Personal information
Full name Nikita Vladimirovich Nagornyy
Nickname(s) Nikita/Nika
Country represented  Russia
Born (1997-02-12) 12 February 1997
Rostov-on-Don, Rostov Oblast, Russia
Hometown Rostov-on-Don
Residence Moscow, Russia
Discipline Men's artistic gymnastics
Club Dynamo Moscow
Assistant coach(es) A. Zabelin
Medal record
Representing  Russia
Men's artistic gymnastics
Olympic Games
2016 Rio de Janeiro Team
European Championships
2015 Montpellier Vault
2016 Bern Team
2016 Bern Floor exercise
Youth Olympic Games
2014 Nanjing Pommel horse
2014 Nanjing Rings
2014 Nanjing Parallel bars
2014 Nanjing All-around
2014 Nanjing Vault

Nikita Vladimirovich Nagornyy (Russian: Никита Владимирович Нагорный, born 12 February 1997 in Rostov-on-Don, Rostov Oblast, Russia) is a Russian artistic gymnast. He is the 2016 Olympics Team silver medalist, the 2016 European Champion on floor, 2015 European Champion on vault, the 2014 Youth Olympic All-around silver medalist and pommel horse, rings and parallel bars Champion, and the 2014 European Junior vault champion.

Personal life

Nagornyy has a Youtube account, and enjoys making youtube vlogs in his leisure time.

Career

Nagornyy began gymnastics at age 6 under the encouragement of his grandmother.[1] His favorite gymnast and idol is Alexei Nemov.

Junior

Nagornyy was bronze medalist in all-around at the 2014 Russian Championships. Nagornyy was member of the Russian Team that won silver medal at the 2014 European Junior Championships, he qualified for the vault finals and won the gold medal.

Nagornyy was selected to represent Russia in men's gymnastics at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics in Nanjing, China. He won the all-around silver medal behind Britain's Giarnni Regini-Moran. Nagornyy was the only gymnast to qualify to all 6 event finals.[2] He won gold in (rings, pommel horse, parallel bars), bronze medal in vault, 4th in floor exercise and 8th after a fall on horizontal bars.[3] Nagornyy was the most decorated male artistic gymnast at this Youth Olympics Game with a total of three gold, one silver, and one bronze medal.[4]

2015

Nagornyy's first year as a senior gymnast was 2015. At the 2015 Russian National Championships, his team finished in 4th,[5] and he finished 5th in the all-around.[6] In the event finals, he tied for gold with Denis Ablyazin on both floor and vault and won bronze on parallel bars and high bar.[7] He was then selected to compete floor and vault at the 2015 European Championships.[8]

Nagornyy qualified first for the vault final at the 2015 European Championships with a 15.050.[9] However, he only finished 41st in the floor qualifications with a 14.100 due to a near-fall and several steps out of bounds.[10] In the vault final, he won the European title with a 15.099. His teammate, Denis Ablyazin, was only 0.016 behind him.[11]

At the 2015 World Championships in Glasgow Nagornyy competed floor and vault in the Team Final to contribute to the Russian Team's 4th-place finish.

2016

At the 2016 Russian National Championships Nagornyy's Team placed 3rd, winning the bronze medal. In the All Around Nagornyy was in 3rd place after the first day with a score of 89.033. On the second day he placed second with a score of 89.166 to give him a combined score of 178.199 which won him the silver medal behind Nikolai Kuksenkov and ahead of former National and European Champion David Belyavskiy. In event finals he won gold on floor ahead of 2014 World Champion Denis Ablyazin and also won silver medals on vault, rings and parallel bars.

Nagornyy was part of the Russia team for the 2016 European Championships. In qualifications he competed on every event except high bar, helping Russia to qualify in first place for the Team Final and qualifying to 3 Event Finals: Floor, Vault and Parallel Bars. In Team finals he again competed on 5 events, helping the team to win gold with a score of 271.378, nearly 3 points ahead of Great Britain. In Event Finals he became European Champion on Floor with a score of 15.566, also placing 6th in the Vault final with an average of 14.916 after a mistake on his second vault, and 7th in the Parallel Bars final with a score of 14.100 after a fall.

On August 6-16, Nagornyy competed with the Russian Team (together with Ivan Stretovich, Denis Ablyazin, Nikolai Kuksenkov and David Belyavskiy) at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, he contributed scores of 15.000 in floor, 14.866 in rings, 15.400 vault; helping the Russian men's team win the silver medal with a total of 271.453 points.[12] Nagornyy also qualified in the vault finals where he finished in 5th place.[13]

Competitive history

Year Event Team AA FX PH SR VT PB HB
2014Youth Olympic Games 2nd 4th 1st 1st 3rd 1st 8th
2015National Championships 4th 5th 1st 1st 3rd 3rd
European Championships 1st
World Championships 4th
2016National Championships3rd 2nd 1st 2nd 2nd 2nd
Osijek World Cup 5th 4th 7th
European Championships1st 1st 6th 7th
Olympic Games 2nd 5th

References

  1. ↑ "Who is Nagornyy". SportBox. Retrieved 25 August 2014.
  2. ↑ "No rest in sight as Nikita Nagornyy prepares for six finals". Retrieved 23 August 2014.
  3. ↑ "Regini-Moran and Nagornyy shine again as gymnastics programme ends with a flourish". Olympic.org.
  4. ↑ "2nd Youth Olympic Games in Nanjing - Seda Tutkhalyan and Nikita Nagornyy from Russia are the most successful WAG and MAG gymnasts". European Union of Gymnastics. Retrieved 25 August 2014.
  5. ↑ "Чемпионат России Результат команд" (PDF). Gymnastics Results (in Russian). Russian Gymnastics Federation. Retrieved 22 April 2015.
  6. ↑ "Чемпионат России Результат многоборья" (PDF). Gymnastics Results (in Russian). Russian Gymnastics Federation. Retrieved 22 April 2015.
  7. ↑ "Чемпионат России Лучшие 8+3 по снарядам" (PDF). Russian Gymnastics Federation (in Russian). Retrieved 22 April 2015.
  8. ↑ "Euros 2015: Russian delegation confirmed". Full Twist. 5 April 2015. Retrieved 22 April 2015.
  9. ↑ "Men's Qualification Results Two Vaults" (PDF). Gymnastics Results. European Union of Gymnastics. 16 April 2015. Retrieved 22 April 2015.
  10. ↑ "Men's Qualification Results Floor" (PDF). Gymnastics Results. European Union of Gymnastics. 16 April 2015. Retrieved 22 April 2015.
  11. ↑ "Men's Apparatus Finals Results Vault" (PDF). Gymnastics Results. European Union of Gymnastics. 19 April 2015. Retrieved 22 April 2015.
  12. ↑ "Russian men's gymnastics team win silver in multidiscipline competitions". Itar-Tass. Retrieved 2016-08-09.
  13. ↑ "Ablyazin tales silver Olympic medal on vault". Itar-Tass. Retrieved 2016-08-15.
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