Igor Radivilov

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.

Igor Radivilov
Igor Radivilov with his silver medal from the 2015 European Championships
Personal information
Full name	Ihor Vitaliyovych Radivilov
Alternative name(s)	Igor Radivilov
Country represented	Ukraine
Born	19 October 1992 Mariupol, Ukraine
Residence	Kiev, 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
Medal record Representing  Ukraine Olympic Games 2012 London Vault World Championships 2014 Nanning Vault 2017 Montreal Vault 2019 Stuttgart Vault European Games 2015 Baku Team 2019 Minsk Rings 2019 Minsk Vault European Championships 2013 Moscow Rings 2020 Mersin Vault 2020 Mersin Team 2012 Montpellier Vault 2014 Sofia Vault 2015 Montpellier Vault 2018 Glasgow Vault 2014 Sofia Team 2017 Cluj-Napoca Rings 2020 Mersin Rings Summer Universiade 2017 Taipei Team 2013 Kazan Team 2015 Gwangju Rings 2015 Gwangju Vault 2013 Kazan Rings 2013 Kazan Vault 2015 Gwangju Team

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.

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
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

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. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2012-08-01. Retrieved 2012-08-01.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
4. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2012-12-08. Retrieved 2012-12-08.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
5. "Ablyazin, Wilson Dominate European Finals". international gymnast. Retrieved 25 May 2014.

External links

• Igor Radivilov at the International Gymnastics Federation