Nikita Nagornyy almost had a clean sweep at the Russian Nationals winning gold in the all-around and in every event final except for floor. According to Valentina Rodionenko, due to this result, he is now guaranteed a spot on the...
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Nikita Nagornyy won the all-around at the Russian Championships by a landslide. Vladislav Poliashov who got silver lost to Nagornyy by about 6 points over two days. Nikita Ignatyev took bronze, while Dmitrii Lankin had a very...
Russian Championships has started yesterday with the individual qualifications and team finals for both MAG and WAG. While we’re used to not getting proper videos from the qualifications, this year was especially bad...
The power couple of the Russian national team, Daria Spiridonova and Nikita Nagornyy, got married today in Nagornyy’s native city, Rostov-on-Don. The couple tried keeping a low profile and did not make any announcements...
Valeri Alfosov, the head coach of the Russian national team, gave an interview to R-Sport. He talked about the challenges of selecting a four-person team for the Olympics, about the team strategy and about coaching the gymnasts...
Aliya Mustafina and Denis Abliazin spent some time in Munich checking on their injuries and rehabbing them. Abliazin was originally supposed to compete in Cottbus since he will try qualifying to the Olympics via World Cups but he...
Overall, both Russian MAG and WAG had a quite successful competition in Doha. Both won silver medals in the team finals and gymnasts made multiple individual finals. However, while MAG also picked up five individual medals (four...
For Nikita Nagornyy, today’s final was a redemption for both the team final in which Russia lost to China by 0.05 and the last year’s AA final in which Nagornyy finished 10th despite having the highest...
Artur Dalaloyan won the first Worlds AA medal for Russia in nine years (Yuri Ryazanov won bronze in 2009) and the first gold in 19 years (Nikolai Kryukov was the World AA champion in 1999). Nikita Nagornyy won the bronze medal...
The men’s team final at the World Championships today was extremely dramatic. The main battle was between Russia and China. Both teams made mistakes throughout the competition but the main showdown happened on parallel bars...