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Igor Radivilov
Ігор Радівілов
Radivilov at the 2022 European Championships
Personal information
Full nameIgor Vitaliyovych Radivilov
Alternative name(s)Ihor Radivilov
Country represented Ukraine
Born (1992-10-19) 19 October 1992 (age 32)
Mariupol, Ukraine
ResidenceKyiv, Ukraine
Spouse
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(m. 2016)​
Height5 ft 6 in (168 cm)
DisciplineMen's artistic gymnastics
Years on national team2007–present (UKR)
ClubSpartak, Donetsk
Head coach(es)Vyacheslav Lavrukhin
Medal record
Men's artistic gymnastics
Representing  Ukraine
Event 1st 2nd 3rd
Olympic Games 0 0 1
World Championships 0 2 2
European Games 0 1 2
European Championships 5 4 5
Summer Universiade 0 4 3
Total 5 11 13
Olympic Games
Bronze medal – third place 2012 London Vault
World Championships
Silver medal – second place 2014 Nanning Vault
Silver medal – second place 2017 Montreal Vault
Bronze medal – third place 2019 Stuttgart Vault
Bronze medal – third place 2022 Liverpool Vault
European Games
Silver medal – second place 2015 Baku Team
Bronze medal – third place 2019 Minsk Rings
Bronze medal – third place 2019 Minsk Vault
European Championships
Gold medal – first place 2013 Moscow Rings
Gold medal – first place 2020 Mersin Vault
Gold medal – first place 2020 Mersin Team
Gold medal – first place 2021 Basel Vault
Gold medal – first place 2024 Rimini Team
Silver medal – second place 2012 Montpellier Vault
Silver medal – second place 2014 Sofia Vault
Silver medal – second place 2015 Montpellier Vault
Silver medal – second place 2018 Glasgow Vault
Bronze medal – third place 2014 Sofia Team
Bronze medal – third place 2017 Cluj-Napoca Rings
Bronze medal – third place 2020 Mersin Rings
Bronze medal – third place 2022 Munich Vault
Bronze medal – third place 2023 Antalya Vault
Summer Universiade
Silver medal – second place 2017 Taipei Team
Silver medal – second place 2013 Kazan Team
Silver medal – second place 2015 Gwangju Rings
Silver medal – second place 2015 Gwangju Vault
Bronze medal – third place 2013 Kazan Rings
Bronze medal – third place 2013 Kazan Vault
Bronze medal – third place 2015 Gwangju Team

Igor (Ihor) Vitaliyovych Radivilov (Ukrainian: Ігор Віталійович Радівілов; born 19 October 1992) is a Ukrainian gymnast[1] and four-time Olympian, having competed at the 2012, 2016, 2020, and 2024 Olympic Games. Although he competes on all apparatuses, he is best known as a vault and rings specialist.

Personal life

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Radivilov was born on 19 October 1992 in Mariupol, eastern Ukraine. On 4 September 2016, he married Ukrainian gymnast Angelina Kysla.[2]

Career

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2012–2016

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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 fourth place in the team all-around final as part of the Ukrainian team along with Mykola Kuksenkov, Oleg Stepko, Vitalii Nakonechnyi and Oleg Verniaiev.[4] Ukraine also takes pride on Radivilov being their first Olympic medalist born in the post-Soviet era.

Radivilov won gold in rings at the 2013 European Championships. At the 2013 Summer Universiade in Kazan, he and the Ukrainian team (Verniaiev, 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.

On 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 on vault (15.050) behind Ablyazin again.[5]

Radivilov at the 2015 European Championships

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 it down on landing, his feet (not pelvis) did touch the ground first, and thus considered a successful attempt when a score was given, which also subsequently contributed to the International Gymnastics Federation (FIG) in formally naming the skill after him, the Radivilov. However, due to the potential danger of associated injuries to gymnasts with the training and/or competing of this skill, the FIG has since officially banned it from competition after the Olympics and removed it from the next 2017–2020 Code of Points for men's artistic gymnastics.

2020–2021

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In March of 2020 Radivilov competed at the Baku World Cup and qualified to the vault final in third place; however event finals were canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Azerbaijan.[6] The global COVID-19 pandemic caused numerous competitions to be cancelled or postponed, including the 2020 Olympic Games.

In October Radivilov returned to international competition at the Szombathely Challenge Cup where he finished second on rings and first on vault. In December of 2020 he competed at an attendance-reduced European Championships where only ten nations sent a full team. The Ukrainian team of Radivilov, Vladyslav Hryko, Petro Pakhniuk, Roman Vashchenko, and Yevgen Yudenkov bested the Turkish team to win gold in the team competition.[7] Individually Radivilov placed first on vault, winning his first European title on the event, and third on rings behind İbrahim Çolak and Vinzenz Höck.

Radivilov competed at the 2021 European Championships where he defended his title on vault; additionally he placed sixth on rings. He competed at the Doha World Cup and Osijek Challenge Cup where he placed second and first on vault respectively. He represented Ukraine at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo, Japan alongside Illia Kovtun, Petro Pakhnyuk, and Yevhen Yudenkov.[8] They finished seventh in the team final. Radivilov competed at the 2021 World Championships but did not qualify to any event finals.

2022–2024

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Radivilov competed at the 2022 European Championships. On the first day of competition he helped Ukraine finish ninth as a team during qualifications. Although they didn't qualify for the team final they qualified a whole team to compete at the upcoming World Championships. Individually Radivilov qualified for the rings and vault finals. During the rings final Radivilov finished seventh. During the vault final Radivilov won bronze behind Jake Jarman and Artur Davtyan.[9] In late October through early November Radivilov competed at the World Championships. While there he won bronze on vault behind Davtyan and Carlos Yulo.[10]

At the 2023 European Championships Radivilov won bronze on vault, once again behind Davtyan and Jarman. In October Radivilov competed at the 2023 World Championships alongside Nazar Chepurnyi, Illia Kovtun, Radomyr Stelmakh, and Oleg Verniaiev. During qualifications they finished twelfth as a team and qualified a full team to the 2024 Olympic Games. Individually Radivilov qualified to the vault final. During the final Radivilov placed fourth behind Jarman, Khoi Young, and compatriot Chepurnyi.

In late April of 2024 Radivilov competed at the European Championships alongside Nazar Chepurnyi, Illia Kovtun, Radomyr Stelmakh, and Oleg Verniaiev; together they qualified to the team final in first place and individually Radivilov qualified to the vault final. During event finals Radivilov placed fourth on vault.[11] During the team final Radivilov contributed scores on rings and vault towards Ukraine's first place finish.[12] Radivilov competed at the 2024 Olympic Games alongside Chepurnyi, Kovtun, Stelmakh, and Verniaiev. During the qualification round he helped Ukraine qualify to the team final and individually he qualified to the vault final. During the team final Radivilov contributed scores on rings and vault towards Ukraine's fifth place finish.[13] In the vault final Radivilov fell on his first vault and finished the final in eighth place.[14]

Eponymous skills

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Radivilov has one "inactive" eponymous skill, but it is one that remains officially recognised by the (FIG) nonetheless. Even though he was ruled to have legally completed the skill in competition and subsequently given naming credit for it, his attempt at it during the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro on the individual vault event did not go as smoothly as he would have liked. His attempt at the mindbogglingly difficult handspring triple front tucked somersault on vault—now officially known as the Radivilov—assigned the highest difficulty of 7.0, ended with him appearing to have landed the skill on his back, almost received a zero score if that was the case, but since video reply did show him (barely) touch the mat with his feet first, he had thus completed a legal vault and was therefore given a score, albeit with a very low execution component due to his fall. However, because Radivilov was then awarded a score to a new original skill, he was also simultaneously deemed to have successfully completed the skill in competition, which led to the skill being automatically named after him. Unfortunately, the skill has since been banned from competition entirely after the Olympics, and removed from the next Code of Points (CoP). The FIG has determined that the risk of injury when training and/or competing the skill is just too great for them not to intervene officially. The difficulty score listed below reflected the FIG's 2013-2016 CoP, which was when the skill was first successfully completed in competition, but then not updated into later quads due to its subsequent ban not long after the skill was originated.

Apparatus Name Description Difficulty Notes
Vault Radivilov front handspring–triple front tucked somersault 7.0 Originated at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro but banned almost immediately after the Olympics due to high risk of injury when performing or training the skill.

Competitive history

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2012 Olympic podium
2015 European Championships podium
2022 European Championships podium
Year Event Team AA FX PH SR VT PB HB
2012 Cottbus World Cup 1st place, gold medalist(s)
Zibo World Cup 1st place, gold medalist(s)
European Championships 5 2nd place, silver medalist(s)
Olympic Games 4 8 3rd place, bronze medalist(s)
2013
European Championships 1st place, gold medalist(s) 5
Anadia Challenge Cup 2nd place, silver medalist(s)
Summer Universiade 2nd place, silver medalist(s) 3rd place, bronze medalist(s) 3rd place, bronze medalist(s)
2014
European Championships 3rd place, bronze medalist(s) 7 2nd place, silver medalist(s)
World Championships 2nd place, silver medalist(s)
2015
European Championships 2nd place, silver medalist(s)
European Games 2nd place, silver medalist(s) 6
Summer Universiade 3rd place, bronze medalist(s) 2nd place, silver medalist(s) 2nd place, silver medalist(s)
Osijek Challenge Cup 2nd place, silver medalist(s) 1st place, gold medalist(s)
World Championships 5
2016 Cottbus Challenge Cup 1st place, gold medalist(s)
Olympic Test Event 2nd place, silver medalist(s) 4 3rd place, bronze medalist(s)
European Championships 4
Osijek Challenge Cup 3rd place, bronze medalist(s) 3rd place, bronze medalist(s)
Varna Challenge Cup 1st place, gold medalist(s) 1st place, gold medalist(s)
Olympic Games 8 5 8
Cottbus World Cup 1st place, gold medalist(s) 1st place, gold medalist(s)
2017 Doha World Cup 2nd place, silver medalist(s)
European Championships 3rd place, bronze medalist(s) 7
Summer Universiade 2nd place, silver medalist(s) 6 6
Varna Challenge Cup 1st place, gold medalist(s) 1st place, gold medalist(s)
Paris Challenge Cup 2nd place, silver medalist(s)
World Championships 2nd place, silver medalist(s) 7
Cottbus World Cup 1st place, gold medalist(s) 2nd place, silver medalist(s)
2018 Doha World Cup 1st place, gold medalist(s) 1st place, gold medalist(s)
European Championships R2 2nd place, silver medalist(s)
World Championships R1 8
Cottbus World Cup 4 1st place, gold medalist(s)
2019 Melbourne World Cup 6 1st place, gold medalist(s)
Baku World Cup 3rd place, bronze medalist(s) 2nd place, silver medalist(s)
Doha World Cup 2nd place, silver medalist(s)
European Championships 8 7
European Games 3rd place, bronze medalist(s) 3rd place, bronze medalist(s)
Szombathely Challenge Cup 1st place, gold medalist(s) 5
World Championships 8 R1 3rd place, bronze medalist(s)
2020 Baku World Cup 3rd place, bronze medalist(s)
Ukrainian Championships 1st place, gold medalist(s) 3rd place, bronze medalist(s)
Szombathely World Cup 2nd place, silver medalist(s) 1st place, gold medalist(s)
European Championships 1st place, gold medalist(s) 3rd place, bronze medalist(s) 1st place, gold medalist(s)
2021 Ukrainian Championships 1st place, gold medalist(s) 1st place, gold medalist(s)
European Championships 6 1st place, gold medalist(s)
Doha World Cup 6 2nd place, silver medalist(s)
Osijek Challenge Cup 5 1st place, gold medalist(s)
Olympic Games 7 R3
2022 Osijek Challenge Cup 1st place, gold medalist(s)
Koper Challenge Cup 1st place, gold medalist(s) 1st place, gold medalist(s)
European Championships R1 7 3rd place, bronze medalist(s)
World Championships 21 3rd place, bronze medalist(s)
2023
European Championships 9 3rd place, bronze medalist(s)
Mersin Challenge Cup 3rd place, bronze medalist(s) 3rd place, bronze medalist(s)
World Championships 12 4
2024 Baku World Cup 8
European Championships 1st place, gold medalist(s) 4
Olympic Games 5 8

References

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  1. ^ London2012.com Archived 2013-02-28 at the UK Government Web Archive
  2. ^ RADIVILOV Igor at fig-gymnastics.com at the Wayback Machine (archive index)
  3. ^ "Men's Vault - Olympic Gymnastics - Artistic | London 2012". Archived from the original on 2012-08-01. Retrieved 2012-08-01.
  4. ^ "Men's Team - Olympic Gymnastics - Artistic | London 2012". Archived from the original on 2012-12-08. Retrieved 2012-12-08.
  5. ^ "Ablyazin, Wilson Dominate European Finals". international gymnast. Retrieved 25 May 2014.
  6. ^ "Finals of Baku World Cup cancelled". International Gymnastics Federation. March 13, 2020.
  7. ^ "34TH EUROPEAN MEN'S ARTISTIC GYMNASTICS CHAMPIONSHIPS: SENIORS – Team Results" (PDF). 12 December 2020. Retrieved 12 December 2020.
  8. ^ "Rounding Off: Oleg Verniaiev left out of Ukraine team for Tokyo Games". International Olympic Committee. July 9, 2021.
  9. ^ "Dolgopyat, Merdinyan, Petrounias, Jarman, Fraser and Georgiou crowned apparatus Champions at #Munich2022". European Gymnastics. August 21, 2022.
  10. ^ "2022 World Championships Men's Results". The Gymternet. November 9, 2022.
  11. ^ "Jarman and Kovtun Win European Titles on Day Two of Apparatus Finals in Rimini". International Olympic Committee. April 27, 2024.
  12. ^ "Ukraine rallies to win senior team title as men's European Championships conclude". International Gymnast Media. April 28, 2024.
  13. ^ "Dramatic finish sweeps Japanese men to Paris 2024 Olympic team title". International Gymnastics Federation. July 29, 2024.
  14. ^ "Carlos Edriel Yulo wins men's vault to scoop second gold for Philippines in Paris". Reuters. August 4, 2024.
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