1. Oleg Yuriyovych Verniaiev is a Ukrainian artistic gymnast.
44 Facts About Oleg Verniaiev
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Oleg Verniaiev is the 2016 Olympic parallel bars champion and individual all-around silver medalist.
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Oleg Verniaiev is a three-time Olympian, having represented Ukraine at the 2012,2016, and 2024 Olympic Games.
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Oleg Verniaiev missed the 2020 Olympic Games due to a doping ban resulting from having tested positive for the banned substance meldonium in an out-of-competition test in August 2020.
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Oleg Verniaiev was educated at the Donetsk State Institute of Health, Physical Education and Sport.
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Oleg Verniaiev was part of the Ukrainian team that finished fifth in the men's team final.
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Oleg Verniaiev scored 14.461 on floor, 13.866 on pommel horse, 14.833 on vault, and 13.800 on parallel bars.
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Oleg Verniaiev finished sixth in the 2012 American Cup with a score of 88.132.
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Oleg Verniaiev made the parallel bars final, finishing in second place with a score of 15.66,0.1 points behind the winner Marcel Nguyen of Germany.
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Oleg Verniaiev was victorious in the all-around final of the 2012 Ukrainian Championships, scoring 90.300 points and winning by a margin of 2.65 points over second place Oleg Stepko.
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Oleg Verniaiev finished eleventh in the individual all-around final with a score of 88.931.
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Oleg Verniaiev took the silver medal in the individual all-around finals at the 2013 American Cup.
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Oleg Verniaiev won the bronze medal in the individual all-around at the 2013 European Championships in Moscow, Russia.
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At the 2013 Summer Universiade, Verniaiev led his Ukrainian team to a second-place finish in the team final, and qualified for the all-around final.
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Oleg Verniaiev won another bronze medal in the parallel bars final.
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In May 2014, at the 2014 European Championships in Sofia, Bulgaria, Oleg Verniaiev contributed scores of 15.100,14.400,14.900,14.783,15.591, and 14.600, helping Ukraine win the team bronze medal with a total score of 262.087 points behind Great Britain.
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In event finals, Oleg Verniaiev won the gold medal on the parallel bars and won the bronze medal on vault.
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Oleg Verniaiev won gold on the parallel bars at the 2014 World Championships in Nanning, China.
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Oleg Verniaiev won the 2015 American Cup in Arlington, Texas with a score of 90.597,0.499 over silver medalist and 2013 World Championships all-around silver medalist Ryohei Kato of Japan.
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At the 2015 European Championships Oleg Verniaiev won the individual all-around with a score of 89.582, beating 2013 champion David Belyavskiy.
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At the 2015 European Games, Oleg Verniaiev was part of the Ukrainian team, winning silver in the team final behind Russia.
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Oleg Verniaiev won the all-around final with a score of 90.332, and the vault final with a score of 15.266.
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Oleg Verniaiev placed sixth on floor exercise with 14.233, and fifth on pommel horse, parallel bars, and high bar.
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At the 2016 European Championships Oleg Verniaiev won a gold medal on vault and a silver medal on parallel bars.
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Oleg Verniaiev gained prominence for his public apology over the Ukrainian squad's strategy during the team final, when due to injuries they did not put up gymnasts on all events, effectively ruling the team out of contention.
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Oleg Verniaiev won the gold medal on the parallel bars, scoring 16.041, giving Ukraine its first gymnastics gold at the Games since 2004.
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Oleg Verniaiev finished fifth on vault and eighth on pommel horse and horizontal bar.
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At the 2017 European Championships Oleg Verniaiev won gold medals in the individual all-around and on the parallel bars, and a bronze medal on vault.
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At the 2017 Summer Universiade, Oleg Verniaiev won the gold medal in the individual all-around competition, and won silver with the team and on vault and pommel horse, and won the bronze medal on rings.
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At the 2017 World Championships Oleg Verniaiev won silver on parallel bars behind Zou Jingyuan.
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At the 2018 World Championships Oleg Verniaiev won silver on parallel bars behind Zou.
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In 2019 Oleg Verniaiev competed at the European Championships where he placed seventh on pommel horse and eighth on parallel bars.
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Oleg Verniaiev next competed at the 2019 European Games where he won gold on parallel bars, silver in the all-around and on pommel horse, both behind David Belyavskiy.
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At the 2019 World Championships Oleg Verniaiev won bronze in the all-around behind Nikita Nagornyy and Artur Dalaloyan.
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Oleg Verniaiev began 2020 competing at the American Cup, where he won silver behind Sam Mikulak.
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In December 2020 Oleg Verniaiev was notified by the International Gymnastics Federation that he was provisionally suspended from competition, backdated to November 2020.
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In July 2021 Oleg Verniaiev expressed his intention to appeal the suspension to the Court of Arbitration for Sport, contending that meldonium was not found in subsequent tests.
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Oleg Verniaiev acknowledged the presence of the drug in his body, but said he does not know how it got there.
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On March 14,2023, Oleg Verniaiev announced that his appeal was successful and the CAS reduced his ban to two years, resulting in his ability to return to competition immediately.
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Oleg Verniaiev made his return to competition in September 2023 at the Mersin Challenge Cup where he won gold on parallel bars and silver on pommel horse behind Ahmad Abu Al-Soud.
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Oleg Verniaiev competed at the 2023 World Championships where he helped Ukraine finish twelfth during qualifications.
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Oleg Verniaiev competed at the 2024 European Championships alongside Nazar Chepurnyi, Illia Kovtun, Igor Radivilov, and Radomyr Stelmakh; together they qualified to the team final in first place and individually Oleg Verniaiev won silver in the all-around behind Marios Georgiou.
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Oleg Verniaiev competed at the 2024 Olympic Games alongside Chepurnyi, Kovtun, Radivilov, and Stelmakh.
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Oleg Verniaiev finished eighth in the all-around, fifth on pommel horse, and eighth on parallel bars.