Height 1.67 m Weight 67 kg | Name Ihor Radivilov Club Donetsk Role Gymnast Country represented Ukraine | |
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Born October 19, 1992 (age 31)
Mariupol, Ukraine ( 1992-10-19 ) Discipline Men's artistic gymnastics Olympic medals Gymnastics at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Men's vault | ||
Alternative name(s) Igor Radivilov Head coach(es) Vyacheslav Lavrukhin | ||
Ihor (Igor) Vitaliyovych Radivilov (Ukrainian: Ігор Віталійович Радівілов; born 19 October 1992) is a Ukrainian gymnast and vault specialist. He is credited as being the first Ukrainian-born gymnast after the fall of the USSR to medal at the Olympics and did so at the 2012 Olympics in London as the men's vault bronze medalist.
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Personal life
Radivilov was born on 19 October 1992 in Mariupol. On 4 September 2016, he married to Ukrainian gymnast Angelina Kysla.
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. He also finished in fiourth place in the team all-around final as part of the Ukrainian team along with Mykola Kuksenkov, Oleg Stepko, Vitalii Nakonechnyi and Oleg Vernyayev.
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.
In 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 in vault (15.050) behind Denis Ablyazin.
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 down on landing, his feet did touch first and thus a score was given, which subsequently contributed to the International Gymnastics Federation (FIG) in formally naming the skill after him, "The Radivilov". However, due to the potential danger and injuries associated with training and performing this skill, the FIG have since officially banned it from competition after the Olympics and removed it from the 2017-2020 Code of Points for men's gymnastics.
Eponymous skills
Radivilov has one eponymous skill under the 2013-2016 Code of Points, which has since been banned after 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro.