Coming to the European Games, Petro Pakhniuk planned on fighting for a medal in the all-around final and hoped to qualify to pommel horse and parallel bars finals, even though he knew it would be a tall order with the...
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Petro Pakhniuk came to the European Games as the silver European medalist on parallel bars and upgraded his routine by 0.3 but ended up making mistakes in the qualification and not making the final on this event. He made the...
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...
Ukrainian MAG team didn’t quite have the European Championships they expected to have. Igor Radivilov, a usual medal threat on two events, wasn’t able to win any this time and Oleg Verniaiev was too injured to compete...
Petro Pakhnyuk has won his first ever medal at the European Championships this month. His journey to this medal has been quite a long one, involving two nationality changes, but he feels like he’s finally reaching his...
Oleg Verniaiev had surgeries on both ankles less than two months ago. Yet, he returned to competition this weekend, after only a week of training. Verniaiev competed on parallel bars (where he did an actual dismount) and pommel...
FIG announced the roster of the second all-around world cup of the 2019 season – Stuttgart World Cup on March, 16-17 – and it has some big names including two World AA champions – Simone Biles and Aliya...
Ukraine’s Petro Pakhniuk and his wife, a rhythmic gymnast Aynur Jabbarli, welcomed a baby boy Demid. Jabbarli followed Pakhniuk to Ukraine when he left Azerbaijan and the couple married last year.
USAG has announced the field for the American Cup which will take place on March the 2nd in Greensboro, NC. This will be the first all-around World Cup of the 2019 series. However, this year the all-around World Cups do not serve...
Oleg Verniaiev gave a really long interview to xSport.ua talking about the recovery from his surgeries, the past season, his goals for 2019 and 2020 and the future of Ukrainian gymnastics. Q: In short, what do you think about...