Nikita Nagornyy

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Nikita Nagornyy
— Gymnast —
File:2015 European Artistic Gymnastics Championships - Vault - Medalists 05.jpg
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) February 12, 1997 (age 27)
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

Nikita Vladimirovich Nagornyy (Russian: Никита Владимирович Нагорный, born 12 February 1997) is a Russian artistic gymnast. He is 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 was born 12 February 1997 in Rostov-on-Don, Rostov Oblast, Russia.

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.

Competitive history

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

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