1. Nikita Nagornyy was part of the teams who won gold at the 2020 Olympic Games and 2019 World Championships and silver at the 2016 Olympic Games and 2018 World Championships.
47 Facts About Nikita Nagornyy
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Individually, Nagornyy is the 2019 World All-Around Champion and the 2020 Olympic and 2018 World All-Around bronze medalist.
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Nikita Nagornyy is an eight-time European gold medalist and a three-time Youth Olympic champion.
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Nikita Nagornyy has a YouTube account, and enjoys making YouTube vlogs in his free time.
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Nikita Nagornyy has a Spanish language tattoo on his ribs reading salvame y guardame, a reference to a common Russian Orthodox phrase.
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On December 18,2018, Nikita Nagornyy married fellow Russian gymnast Daria Spiridonova.
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Nikita Nagornyy was bronze medalist in all-around at the 2014 Russian Championships.
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Nikita 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 gold.
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Nikita Nagornyy was selected to represent Russia in men's gymnastics at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics in Nanjing, China.
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Nikita Nagornyy won the all-around silver medal behind Britain's Giarnni Regini-Moran.
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Nikita Nagornyy was the only gymnast to qualify to all 6 event finals.
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Nikita Nagornyy won gold in, bronze medal in vault, 4th in floor exercise and 8th after a fall on horizontal bars.
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Nikita 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.
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Nikita Nagornyy was then selected to compete floor and vault at the 2015 European Championships.
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At the 2015 World Championships in Glasgow Nikita Nagornyy competed floor and vault in the Team Final to contribute to the Russian Team's 4th-place finish.
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At the 2016 Russian National Championships Nikita Nagornyy's Team placed 3rd, winning the bronze medal.
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Nikita Nagornyy was part of the Russia team for the 2016 European Championships.
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Nikita Nagornyy competed on 4 events- Pommel Horse, Rings, Parallel Bars and High Bar.
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Nikita Nagornyy won the national Parallel Bars title with a score of 15.066.
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Nikita Nagornyy placed 7th in the Pommel Horse Final and 4th in the High Bar final, after falls on both events.
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At the 2017 European Championships, not fully healed from the injury; Nikita Nagornyy did not compete in the all-around.
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Nikita Nagornyy won the all-around at the Russian Cup held in Ekaterinburg beating hometown competitor David Belyavskiy.
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At the 2017 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships Nikita Nagornyy had falls on floor and vault in qualifications, and did not qualify for any apparatus finals, although did make it into the All Around final, where he placed 10th after falling on high bar.
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Nikita Nagornyy competed at the 2018 Birmingham World Cup, where he won the silver medal in the All Around.
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At the 2018 Russian Artistic Gymnastics Championships, Nikita Nagornyy did not compete on all 6 events due to injury, competing 4 events- pommel horse, rings, parallel bars and high bar.
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Nikita Nagornyy won a bronze medal on pommel horse, making him the only active Russian male gymnast to have National medals on all 6 events.
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Nikita Nagornyy defended his title on parallel bars, and won his first National high bar title, as well as placing 5th in the rings final.
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At the 2018 Russian Cup, still not fully recovered from injury, Nikita Nagornyy competed on 5 events- everything except for vault.
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Nikita Nagornyy won the floor title, placed 5th in the rings final and 6th in the parallel bars final.
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Nikita Nagornyy went on to compete at the 2018 European Men's Artistic Gymnastics Championships where he competed 5 events in qualifications, and all 6 in the Team Final to help the Russian team to their third consecutive European team title.
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At the 2018 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships, Nikita Nagornyy competed on all 6 events, helping the Russian team to qualify in first place and qualifying in second place to the All Around Final, as well as to 4 apparatus finals- floor, pommel horse, rings and vault.
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Nikita Nagornyy was the only gymnast to place in the top 20 on every event in qualifications.
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Nikita Nagornyy started his year at the 2019 Russian Artistic Gymnastics Championships where he was able to compete on all 6 events for the first time since 2016.
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Nikita Nagornyy then went on to win his first National All Around title, winning by over 6 points after 2 days of combined scores.
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Nikita Nagornyy won his first National titles on pommel horse and rings, making him the only active Russian gymnast to have National titles on all 6 events, as well as taking his 3rd consecutive parallel bars title and defending his high bar title from the previous year.
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At the 2019 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships in Stuttgart, Germany, Nikita Nagornyy helped Russia to win gold in the team event, almost one-full point ahead of 2018 champion China, and Japan.
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Nikita Nagornyy qualified for floor exercise and vault apparatus finals, and was a reserve for horizontal bar and parallel bar.
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Nikita Nagornyy won another gold medal in the vault event, narrowly beating Dalaloyan who won silver.
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Nikita Nagornyy was scheduled to compete at the 2021 Russian Championships but withdrew because of a throat infection.
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Nikita Nagornyy then started his International 2021 season at the 2021 European Championships.
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Nikita Nagornyy debuted a new skill on floor; a triple back pike, which was then named after him in the Code of Points.
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The Nikita Nagornyy was the first skill graded with the highest I value.
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At the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo Nikita Nagornyy competed with the Russian Olympic Committee, a team including Denis Ablyazin, David Belyavskiy, and Artur Dalaloyan.
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Nikita Nagornyy helped the team qualify to the team final in third place and individually qualified to the all-around, floor exercise, vault, and horizontal bar event finals.
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Nikita Nagornyy finished seventh on floor, fifth on vault and won a bronze medal on the horizontal bar after scoring 14.533.
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Nikita Nagornyy placed second in the four-event all-around after losing the tie-breaker to Yul Moldauer of the United States.
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Nikita Nagornyy is credited for being the first gymnast to complete the "triple back pike" on floor, graded with the value, I in the Code of Points.