Oleg Verniaiev returns to the World Championships four years after his last appearance in 2019. This will be his first major international competition in four years. Verniaiev’s break from competitions was first due to the...
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After Petro Pakhniuk threatened to quit the national team over not being selected for Worlds, the head coach Gennady Sartynsky provided some explanations. Per Sartynsky, and also confirmed by Pakhniuk himself, there has been no...
The nominative MAG roster that Ukraine submitted for the 2022 notably has two prominent gymnasts missing – Petro Pakhniuk and Nazar Chepurnyi. Instead, veteran Igor Radivilov and the young star Illia Kovtun will be joined...
Gennady Sartynsky, the head coach of Ukrainian MAG, said that Illia Kovtun, the 2020 junior AA European champion, is establishing himself as one of the team’s leaders: “Illia is a very strong gymnast, one of the...
Ukrainian Gymnastics Federation confirmed the rosters for the upcoming European Championships, which does not include Oleg Verniaiev. Verniaiev is still provisionally suspended by the FIG and thus, ineligible to compete at any...
Gennady Sartynsky, the head coach of the Ukrainian MAG team, told Tribuna.com that the FIG told everyone involved not to comment on Verniaiev’s provisional suspension. Sartynsky said that Verniaiev is currently doing...
Oleg Verniaiev, the reigning Olympic parallel bars champion and silver all-around medalist, is provisionally suspended by the International Gymnastics Federations. This was confirmed by the federation’s media representative...
Ukrainian men – both senior and junior – had a great time at the European Championships in Mersin and won both team golds and 13 individual medals. Gennady Sartynsky, the team’s head coach, said he expected...
According to Gennady Sartynsky, the head coach of the Ukrainian national team, the surprising absence of Oleg Verniaiev at Euros is due to injuries and upcoming dissertation defense: “First of all, Oleg is finishing his...
Ukraine did not have a good showing at the 2018 European Championships and, as a result, they did not get any non-nominative spots. This means they could only send to European Games the gymnasts who earned nominative spots at...