Nikita Nagornyy

Nikita Nagornyy
— Gymnast —

Nikita Nagornyy with his gold medal from the 2015 European Championships
Personal information
Nickname(s) Nikita/Nika
Country represented  Russia
Born February 12, 1997
Rostov-on-Don, Rostov Oblast
Hometown Rostov-on-Don
Residence Moscow, Russia
Discipline Men's artistic gymnastics
Club Dynamo Moscow
Assistant coach(es) A. Zabelin

Nikita Nagornyy (Russian: Никита Нагорный, born 12 February 1997 in Rostov-on-Don, Rostov Oblast, Russia) is a Russian artistic gymnast. He is the 2015 European Champion on vault, the 2014 Youth Olympic All-around silver medalist and the 2014 European Junior vault champion.

Biography

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

Career

Junior

Since becoming a member of the Russian National Team, Nagornyy steadily improved; he 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 3 gold, 1 silver and 1 bronze medal.[4]

Senior

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 won silver on floor and vault and 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]

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.

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