Igor Radivilov
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 Igor Radivilov with his silver medal from the 2015 European Championships | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Full name | Ihor Vitaliyovych Radivilov | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Alternative name(s) | Igor Radivilov | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Country represented |  Ukraine | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 19 October 1992 Mariupol, Ukraine | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Residence | Kyiv, Ukraine | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 5 ft 6 in (168 cm) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 67 kg (148 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Discipline | Men's artistic gymnastics | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Club | Spartak, Donetsk | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Head coach(es) | Vyacheslav Lavrukhin | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Ihor (Igor) Vitaliyovych Radivilov (Ukrainian: Ігор Віталійович Радівілов; born 19 October 1992) is a Ukrainian gymnast.[1] Although he competes on all apparatuses, he is best known as a vault and rings specialist.
Personal life[]
Radivilov was born on 19 October 1992 in Mariupol, eastern Ukraine. On 4 September 2016, he married Ukrainian gymnast Angelina Kysla.[2]
Career[]
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 Vernyayev.[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 (Vernyayev, 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]
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.
In 2021, he represented Ukraine at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan.
Eponymous skills[]
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 the skill, 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. 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 Code of Points, which was when the skill was first successfully completed in competition but then not updated into later quads due to its subsequent ban and removal from the Code of Points not long after the skill was originated.
| Apparatus | Name | Description | Difficulty | Notes |
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| Vault | Radivilov | front handspring–triple front tucked somersault | 7.0 | Originated at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro but banned shortly after the Olympics |
References[]
- ^ London2012.com Archived 2013-02-28 at the UK Government Web Archive
- ^ RADIVILOV Igor at fig-gymnastics.com at the Wayback Machine (archive index)
- ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2012-08-01. Retrieved 2012-08-01.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
- ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2012-12-08. Retrieved 2012-12-08.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
- ^ "Ablyazin, Wilson Dominate European Finals". international gymnast. Retrieved 25 May 2014.
External links[]
- 1992 births
- People from Mariupol
- Living people
- Olympic gymnasts of Ukraine
- Gymnasts at the 2012 Summer Olympics
- Gymnasts at the 2016 Summer Olympics
- Olympic bronze medalists for Ukraine
- Olympic medalists in gymnastics
- Medalists at the 2012 Summer Olympics
- Ukrainian male artistic gymnasts
- European champions in gymnastics
- Gymnasts at the 2015 European Games
- Gymnasts at the 2019 European Games
- European Games medalists in gymnastics
- European Games silver medalists for Ukraine
- European Games bronze medalists for Ukraine
- Medalists at the World Artistic Gymnastics Championships
- Universiade medalists in gymnastics
- Universiade silver medalists for Ukraine
- Universiade bronze medalists for Ukraine
- Medalists at the 2013 Summer Universiade
- Medalists at the 2015 Summer Universiade
- Medalists at the 2017 Summer Universiade
- Gymnasts at the 2020 Summer Olympics