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Gymnastics At The 2012 Summer Olympics – Men's Pommel Horse
The men's pommel horse competition at the 2012 Olympic Games was held at the North Greenwich Arena on 28 July and 5 August. It included 69 competitors from 32 nations. Krisztián Berki of Hungary won the gold medal. It was Hungary's first victory in the pommel horse since 1988 and fifth overall, tying the Soviet Union for the most all-time. Great Britain's Louis Smith and Max Whitlock won silver and bronze, respectively. Smith, who had won bronze in 2008, was the 10th man to win multiple medals in the event. It was the first time since 1984 that one nation earned multiple medals in the pommel horse. Background This was the 23rd appearance of the event in the Olympics. Three of the eight finalists from 2008 returned: silver medalist Filip Ude of Croatia, bronze medalist Louis Smith of Great Britain, and sixth-place finisher Kim Ji-hoon of South Korea. Krisztián Berki of Hungary had won the last two world championships, in 2010 and 2011. Smith had also medaled at both of tho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The O2 Arena (London)
The O2 Arena, commonly known as the O2 (stylised as The O2 arena), is a multi-purpose indoor arena in the centre of the O2 entertainment complex on the Greenwich Peninsula in southeast London. It opened in its present form in 2007. It has the second-highest seating capacity of any indoor venue in the United Kingdom, behind the Manchester Arena, and in 2008 was the world's busiest music arena. As of 2022, it is the ninth-largest building in the world by volume. The arena was built under the Millennium Dome, a large dome-shaped building built to house an exhibition celebrating the turn of the third millennium; as the structure still stands over the arena, ''The Dome'' remains a name in common usage for the venue. The arena, as well as the overall O2 complex, is named after its primary sponsor, the telecommunications company O2, a subsidiary of Virgin Media O2. History Following the closure of the Millennium Experience at the end of 2000, the Millennium Dome was leased to Merid ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kim Ji-hoon (gymnast)
Kim Ji-hoon (born 9 August 1984) is a South Korean gymnast. Kim was part of the South Korean team that won the bronze medal in the team event at the 2006 Asian Games. He also competed at the 2008 Summer Olympics and the 2012 Summer Olympics. Education * Korea National Sport University Korea National Sport University (KNSU) is a South Korean national university located in the neighborhood of Bangi-dong, Songpa-gu, Seoul. It is the only national sport university of South Korea and offers degrees from undergraduate to doctoral lev ... References External links * * Living people 1984 births South Korean male artistic gymnasts Olympic gymnasts for South Korea Gymnasts at the 2008 Summer Olympics Gymnasts at the 2012 Summer Olympics Place of birth missing (living people) Asian Games medalists in gymnastics Gymnasts at the 2006 Asian Games Gymnasts at the 2010 Asian Games Asian Games bronze medalists for South Korea Medalists at the 2006 Asian Games Medalists a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Artistic Gymnastics At The Summer Olympics
Artistic gymnastics has been contested at the Summer Olympics since the first modern Olympic games in Athens. The Soviet Union leads the medal table. Events Men Women Medal table ''Updated after the 2020 Summer Olympics'' Sources:2016 medalists Men Women See also * Gymnastics at the Summer Olympics * Gymnastics at the Youth Olympic Games * |
Gymnastics At The 2012 Summer Olympics
Three gymnastics disciplines were contested at the 2012 Olympic Games in London: artistic gymnastics, rhythmic gymnastics and trampolining. The trampoline events were held at the North Greenwich Arena (normally called The O2 Arena) from 3 to 4 August; the artistic events were also held at the North Greenwich Arena, from 28 July to 7 August. The rhythmic gymnastics events took place at Wembley Arena from 9 to 12 August. A total of 54 medals were awarded across the three disciplines. The most successful nation was China, winning five gold medals and 12 in total. Brazil and South Korea won their first gold medal in the discipline in the history of the Summer Olympic Games. Yevgeniya Kanayeva of Russia marked history by becoming the first back-to-back Olympic champion at the individual all-around in rhythmic gymnastics. Qualification Qualification was based on the results of the 2011 World Rhythmic Gymnastics Championships held in Montpellier, France, from 19 to 25 September; th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vid Hidvégi
Vid Hidvégi (; born 23 August 1986) is a Hungarian artistic gymnast and pommel horse specialist. A student of the Eszterházy Károly College, he finished runner-up at the 2007 Summer Universiade. Hidvégi finished fifth at the 2012 Gymnastics Olympic Test Event and qualified for the 2012 Summer Olympics The 2012 Summer Olympics (officially the Games of the XXX Olympiad and also known as London 2012) was an international multi-sport event held from 27 July to 12 August 2012 in London, England, United Kingdom. The first event, the ... held in London. At the Olympics he went to the pommel horse final with the third best result. In the final, however, Hidvégi made a mistake and fell off the horse, thus got only 14.300 points and finished eighth. Awards *Junior Prima Award (2012) References 1986 births Living people Hungarian male artistic gymnasts Gymnasts from Budapest Gymnasts at the 2012 Summer Olympics Gymnasts at the 2016 Summer Olympics Oly ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Belyavskiy
David Sagitovich Belyavskiy ( rus, Давид Сагитович Белявский, , dɐˈvʲid bʲɪˈlʲafskʲɪɪ̯; born 23 February 1992) is a Russian artistic gymnast and three-time Olympian, representing Russia in 2012 and 2016 and ROC in 2020. He was part of the teams who won gold at the 2020 Olympic Games and 2019 World Championships and silver at the 2016 Olympic Games and 2018 World Championships. Individually Belyavskiy won an Olympic bronze medal on parallel bars in 2016 and a World silver and bronze medal on pommel horse and parallel bars, respectively, in 2017. Additionally he is the 2019 European Games champion, a five-time European Games medalist, seven-time European champion, and 18-time European medalist. Personal life Belyavskiy was born in Votkinsk, Udmurtia. His parents died early in his life and he was raised by his grandparents, growing up in a boarding school. He attended Ural State University. He married his fiancée, Maria, on October 30, 20 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vitaliy Nakonechnyi
Vitalii Nakonechnyi (Ukrainian: Віталій Наконечний, born 2 August 1986 in Kalush) is a Ukrainian gymnast. At the 2011 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships, he competed in the team all-around event, joining Oleg Verniaiev, Nikolai Kuksenkov, Oleg Stepko, Igor Radivilov and Roman Zozulya to finish 5th. He competed for the national team at the 2012 Summer Olympics in the Men's artistic team all-around and the Men's pommel horse. He competed in a team with Mykola Kuksenkov, Igor Radivilov, Oleg Stepko and Oleg Verniaiev Oleg Yuriyovych Verniaiev ( uk, Олег Юрійович Верняєв; born 29 September 1993) is a Ukrainian artistic gymnast. He is the 2016 Olympic parallel bars champion and individual all-around silver medalist. Verniaiev is also the ... for Ukraine in the team final finishing in 4th place. In the pommel horse final he finished in 6th place with a score of 14.766. References Ukrainian male artistic gymnasts 1986 births Pe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alberto Busnari
Alberto Busnari (born 4 October 1978) is an Italian male artistic gymnast and part of the national team. He participated at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, China, the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, UK and 2013 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships in Antwerp, Belgium. An element on pommel horse The pommel horse is an artistic gymnastics apparatus. Traditionally, it is used by only male gymnasts. Originally made of a metal frame with a wooden body and a leather cover, the modern pommel horse has a metal body covered with foam rubber and ... is named after Busnari. 2019-05-26 Budapest Cup age group III apparatus finals pommel horse (Martin Rulsch) 112.jpg, Performed by a young gymnast during the pommel horse apparatus final at the International Junior Budapest Cup 2019-05-26 Budapest Cup age group III apparatus finals pommel horse (Martin Rulsch) 113.jpg 2019-05-26 Budapest Cup age group III apparatus finals pommel horse (Martin Rulsch) 114.jpg 2019-05-26 Budapest Cup ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gymnastics At The 2012 Summer Olympics – Men's Artistic Qualification
Qualifications for Men's artistic gymnastic competitions at the 2012 Summer Olympics were held at the North Greenwich Arena on July 28. The results of the qualification determined the qualifiers to the finals: 8 teams in the team final, 24 gymnasts in the all-around final, and 8 gymnasts in each of 6 apparatus finals. The competition was divided to 3 subdivisions. The first subdivision took place at 11:00 British Summer Time (UTC+1); the second and third subdivision at 15:30 BST and 20:00 BST respectively. Subdivisions Gymnasts from nations taking part in the team all-round event were grouped together while the other gymnasts were grouped into one of six mixed groups. The groups were divided into the three subdivisions after a draw held by the Fédération Internationale de Gymnastique. The groups rotated through each of the six apparatuses together. Subdivision 1 * * * * *Mixed Group 3 ** ** ** ** ** ** *Mixed Group 4 ** ** ** ** ** ** Subdivision 2 * * * *Mixed Group 1 ** ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cyril Tommasone
Cyril Tommasone (born 4 July 1987 in Villeurbanne) is a French artistic gymnast. His strongest apparatus is the pommel horse and parallel bars. He is tall and weighs . Career He started gymnastics at age 7 and trains at the Convention Gymnique de Lyon with Yann Cucherat, under coach, Anatoly Vorontsov. He has been a member of the France team since 2000 where he finished first in the Espoir Championships (Championnats de France Espoir). At the French Elite Championships (Championnats de France Elite) in France in 2010 in Albertville, he finished first in the competition on parallel bars and floor. At the 2010 European Men's Artistic Gymnastics Championships in Birmingham he won a bronze medal with the French team. The following year, he won a silver medal at the 2011 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships in Tokyo and silver medal at the 2011 European Artistic Gymnastics Championships in Berlin, both in the pommel horse. He competed for the national team at the 2012 Summer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Filip Ude
Filip Ude (born 3 June 1986) is a Croatian gymnast. On 9 August 2008 he qualified for the Olympic final of the men's pommel horse at the 2008 Summer Olympics The 2008 Summer Olympics (), officially the Games of the XXIX Olympiad () and also known as Beijing 2008 (), were an international multisport event held from 8 to 24 August 2008, in Beijing, China. A total of 10,942 athletes from 204 Nat ... by finishing third, and on 17 August he won a silver medal in the finals. His other notable highlights prior to the 2008 Olympics include obtaining 15.825 points on the pommel horse as well as 15.050 points on the parallel bars at the 2007/2008 World Cup, as well as obtaining 15.400 points on the floor exercise at the 2007 World Championships. References External links * 1986 births Living people Sportspeople from Čakovec Croatian male artistic gymnasts Olympic gymnasts of Croatia Gymnasts at the 2008 Summer Olympics Gymnasts at the 2012 Summer Olympics Gymna ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Krisztián Berki
Krisztián Berki (; born 18 March 1985 in Budapest) is a Hungarian artistic gymnast. He is a pommel horse specialist. In 2016 a pommel horse element of difficulty level 'E' was named after him. Sports career He is the 2012 Olympic Champion, the 2010, 2011, and 2014 World Champion, and the 2007 and 2009 World silver medalist. He is also the 2005, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2011 and 2012 European Champion on that event. He won the Universiade 2009 in Belgrade. In 2010 and 2011 he was elected Hungarian Sportsman of the year for his achievements. He is currently rated as the best pommel horse worker of all time by the Fédération Internationale de Gymnastique. He is an athlete of Újpesti TE, and represented by STRONGAA Management. 2012 Summer Olympics At the 2012 Summer Olympics Berki competed in and won the pommel horse competition, winning the gold medal with a score of 16.066, exactly the same score as British British may refer to: Peoples, culture, and language * British peopl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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