Igor Radivilov
Ігор Радівілов
Igor Radivilov with his silver medal from the 2015 European Championships
Personal information
Full nameIhor Vitaliyovych Radivilov
Alternative name(s)Igor Radivilov
Country represented Ukraine
Born (1992-10-19) 19 October 1992
Mariupol, Ukraine
ResidenceKyiv, Ukraine
Spouse
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(m. 2016)​
Height5 ft 6 in (168 cm)
DisciplineMen's artistic gymnastics
Years on national team2007–present (UKR)
ClubSpartak, Donetsk
Head coach(es)Vyacheslav Lavrukhin
Medal record
Men's artistic gymnastics
Representing  Ukraine
Event 1st 2nd 3rd
Olympic Games 0 0 1
World Championships 0 2 2
European Games 0 1 2
European Championships 4 4 5
Summer Universiade 0 4 3
Total 4 11 13
Olympic Games
Bronze medal – third place2012 LondonVault
World Championships
Silver medal – second place2014 NanningVault
Silver medal – second place2017 MontrealVault
Bronze medal – third place2019 StuttgartVault
Bronze medal – third place2022 LiverpoolVault
European Games
Silver medal – second place2015 BakuTeam
Bronze medal – third place2019 MinskRings
Bronze medal – third place2019 MinskVault
European Championships
Gold medal – first place2013 Moscow Rings
Gold medal – first place2020 Mersin Vault
Gold medal – first place2020 Mersin Team
Gold medal – first place2021 BaselVault
Silver medal – second place2012 MontpellierVault
Silver medal – second place2014 SofiaVault
Silver medal – second place2015 MontpellierVault
Silver medal – second place2018 GlasgowVault
Bronze medal – third place2014 SofiaTeam
Bronze medal – third place2017 Cluj-NapocaRings
Bronze medal – third place2020 Mersin Rings
Bronze medal – third place2022 MunichVault
Bronze medal – third place 2023 Antalya Vault
Summer Universiade
Silver medal – second place2017 TaipeiTeam
Silver medal – second place2013 KazanTeam
Silver medal – second place2015 GwangjuRings
Silver medal – second place2015 GwangjuVault
Bronze medal – third place2013 KazanRings
Bronze medal – third place2013 KazanVault
Bronze medal – third place2015 GwangjuTeam

Ihor (Igor) Vitaliyovych Radivilov (Ukrainian: Ігор Віталійович Радівілов; born 19 October 1992) is a Ukrainian gymnast[1] and three-time Olympian, having competed at the 2012, 2016, and 2020 Olympic Games. 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

2012–2016

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 Verniaiev.[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 (Verniaiev, 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.

2020

In March Radivilov competed at the Baku World Cup and qualified to the vault final in third place; however event finals were canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Azerbaijan.[6] The global COVID-19 pandemic caused numerous competitions to be cancelled or postponed, including the 2020 Olympic Games.

In October Radivilov returned to international competition at the Szombathely Challenge Cup where he finished second on rings and first on vault. In December he competed at an attendance-reduced European Championships where only ten nations sent a full team. The Ukrainian team of Radivilov, Vladyslav Hryko, Petro Pakhniuk, Roman Vashchenko, and Yevgen Yudenkov bested the Turkish team to win gold in the team competition.[7] Individually Radivilov placed first on vault, winning his first European title on the event, and third on rings behind İbrahim Çolak and Vinzenz Höck.

2021

Radivilov competed at the European Championships where he defended his title on vault; additionally he placed sixth on rings. He competed at the Doha World Cup and Osijek Challenge Cup where he placed second and first on vault respectively. He represented Ukraine at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo, Japan alongside Illia Kovtun, Petro Pakhnyuk, and Yevhen Yudenkov.[8] They finished seventh in the team final. Radivilov competed at the 2021 World Championships but did not qualify to any event finals.

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 it, 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 (CoP). 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 CoP, which was when the skill was first successfully completed in competition, but then not updated into later quads due to its subsequent ban not long after the skill was originated.

ApparatusNameDescriptionDifficultyNotes
VaultRadivilovfront handspring–triple front tucked somersault7.0Originated at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro but banned almost immediately after the Olympics due to high risk of injury when performing or training the skill.

Competitive history

Radivilov winning a bronze medal at the 2012 Olympic Games
Year Event Team AA FX PH SR VT PB HB
2012Cottbus World Cup1st place, gold medalist(s)
Zibo World Cup1st place, gold medalist(s)
European Championships52nd place, silver medalist(s)
Olympic Games483rd place, bronze medalist(s)
2013
European Championships1st place, gold medalist(s)5
Anadia Challenge Cup2nd place, silver medalist(s)
Summer Universiade2nd place, silver medalist(s)3rd place, bronze medalist(s)3rd place, bronze medalist(s)
2014
European Championships3rd place, bronze medalist(s)72nd place, silver medalist(s)
World Championships2nd place, silver medalist(s)
2015
European Championships2nd place, silver medalist(s)
European Games2nd place, silver medalist(s)6
Summer Universiade3rd place, bronze medalist(s)2nd place, silver medalist(s)2nd place, silver medalist(s)
Osijek Challenge Cup2nd place, silver medalist(s)1st place, gold medalist(s)
World Championships5
2016Cottbus Challenge Cup1st place, gold medalist(s)
Olympic Test Event2nd place, silver medalist(s)43rd place, bronze medalist(s)
European Championships4
Osijek Challenge Cup3rd place, bronze medalist(s)3rd place, bronze medalist(s)
Varna Challenge Cup1st place, gold medalist(s)1st place, gold medalist(s)
Olympic Games858
Cottbus World Cup1st place, gold medalist(s)1st place, gold medalist(s)
2017Doha World Cup2nd place, silver medalist(s)
European Championships3rd place, bronze medalist(s)7
Summer Universiade2nd place, silver medalist(s)66
Varna Challenge Cup1st place, gold medalist(s)1st place, gold medalist(s)
Paris Challenge Cup2nd place, silver medalist(s)
World Championships2nd place, silver medalist(s)7
Cottbus World Cup1st place, gold medalist(s)2nd place, silver medalist(s)
2018Doha World Cup1st place, gold medalist(s)1st place, gold medalist(s)
European ChampionshipsR22nd place, silver medalist(s)
World ChampionshipsR18
Cottbus World Cup41st place, gold medalist(s)
2019Melbourne World Cup61st place, gold medalist(s)
Baku World Cup3rd place, bronze medalist(s)2nd place, silver medalist(s)
Doha World Cup2nd place, silver medalist(s)
European Championships87
European Games3rd place, bronze medalist(s)3rd place, bronze medalist(s)
Szombathely Challenge Cup1st place, gold medalist(s)5
World Championships8R13rd place, bronze medalist(s)
2020Baku World Cup3rd place, bronze medalist(s)
Ukrainian Championships1st place, gold medalist(s)3rd place, bronze medalist(s)
Szombathely World Cup2nd place, silver medalist(s)1st place, gold medalist(s)
European Championships1st place, gold medalist(s)3rd place, bronze medalist(s)1st place, gold medalist(s)
2021Ukrainian Championships1st place, gold medalist(s)1st place, gold medalist(s)
European Championships61st place, gold medalist(s)
Doha World Cup62nd place, silver medalist(s)
Osijek Challenge Cup51st place, gold medalist(s)
Olympic Games7R3
2022Osijek Challenge Cup1st place, gold medalist(s)
Koper Challenge Cup1st place, gold medalist(s)1st place, gold medalist(s)
European ChampionshipsR173rd place, bronze medalist(s)
World Championships213rd place, bronze medalist(s)
2023
European Championships93rd place, bronze medalist(s)
Mersin Challenge Cup3rd place, bronze medalist(s)3rd place, bronze medalist(s)
World Championships124

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. ↑ "Men's Vault - Olympic Gymnastics - Artistic | London 2012". Archived from the original on 2012-08-01. Retrieved 2012-08-01.
  4. ↑ "Men's Team - Olympic Gymnastics - Artistic | London 2012". Archived from the original on 2012-12-08. Retrieved 2012-12-08.
  5. ↑ "Ablyazin, Wilson Dominate European Finals". international gymnast. Retrieved 25 May 2014.
  6. ↑ "Finals of Baku World Cup cancelled". International Gymnastics Federation. March 13, 2020.
  7. ↑ "34TH EUROPEAN MEN'S ARTISTIC GYMNASTICS CHAMPIONSHIPS: SENIORS – Team Results" (PDF). 12 December 2020. Retrieved 12 December 2020.
  8. ↑ "Rounding Off: Oleg Verniaiev left out of Ukraine team for Tokyo Games". International Olympic Committee. July 9, 2021.
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