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Gymnastics At The 2012 Summer Olympics – Men's Vault
The men's vault competition at the 2012 Summer Olympics was held at the North Greenwich Arena on 6 August. It included 17 competitors from 14 nations. Yang Hak-seon of South Korea won the gold, his nation's first victory in the event and first medal since 1996. Denis Ablyazin of Russia took silver, while Igor Radivilov earned Ukraine's first medal in the event as an independent nation. Background This was the 23rd appearance of the event at the Olympics. Two of the eight finalists from 2008 returned: seventh-place finisher Flavius Koczi of Romania and eighth-place finisher Isaac Botella of Spain. Yang Hak-seon of South Korea was the 2011 world champion and the favorite, particularly with the 2010 world champion, Thomas Bouhail of France, injured and unable to compete. Chile and Hong Kong made their debuts in the men's vault competition. The United States made its 20th appearance, the most of any nation. Competition format The top eight vaulters in the qualification ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
North Greenwich Arena 1
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 List of largest buildings#Largest usable volume, 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 (UK), O2, a subsidiary of Virgin Media O2. History Following the closure of the Millennium Experience at ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sam Mikulak
Samuel Anthony Mikulak (born October 13, 1992) is a retired American artistic gymnast. He is a six-time U.S. national all-around champion (2013–2016, 2018–2019), the 2018 World bronze medalist on high bar, and a three-time Olympian (2012, 2016, and 2020). He is also an eight-time NCAA champion, winning the team, individual all-around and several individual event titles at the 2011, 2013 and 2014 NCAA Men's Gymnastics championships. Early years Mikulak was born in Huntington Beach, California, and attended Corona del Mar High School. He is of Polish descent. His parents both competed in gymnastics at the University of California, Berkeley, and started Sam in gymnastics at age two. He has a younger sister Alexandra Mikulak, who started gymnastics at two as well but stopped at a young age. His father, Stephen Mikulak, is an orthopedic surgeon. Mikulak was a member of the Junior National team from 2007 to 2010. He won the all-around, floor exercise and vault titles at the 2010 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vault At The Olympics
The vault is an artistic gymnastics event held at the Summer Olympics. The event was first held for men at the first modern Olympics in 1896. It was held again in 1904, but not in 1900, 1908, 1912, or 1920 when no apparatus events were awarded medals. The vault was one of the components of the men's artistic individual all-around in 1900, however. The men's vault returned as a medal event in 1924 and has been held every Games since. Vault scores were included in the individual all-around for 1924 and 1928, with no separate apparatus final. In 1932, the vault was entirely separate from the all-around. From 1936 to 1956, there were again no separate apparatus finals with the vault scores used in the all-around. The women's vault was added in 1952 and has been held every Games since. Beginning in 1960, there were separate apparatus finals. The vault used a "vaulting horse" until 2000; after that, a "vaulting table" has been used. Medalists Men Multiple medalists Medalists by ... [...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] |
Koji Yamamuro
is a Japanese gymnast. He has won two Olympic medals in the men's artistic team all-around – silver in 2012 (London) and gold in 2016 (Rio de Janeiro). Career Yamamuro won the bronze medal in men's all-around at the 2011 World Championships. Yamamuro competed for the national team at the 2012 Summer Olympics in the Men's artistic team all-around. In the team final, he injured his ankle on the vault event, and had to be helped off. He had qualified for the individual all-around final, but due to the injury was unable to compete. This gave a chance for his teammate Kazuhito Tanaka to compete - he had ranked behind Yamamuro and Kōhei Uchimura and had not qualified due to the 2-per-country rule. Yamamuro also participated in the 2012 American Cup.http://usagym.org/PDFs/Results/m_10tac_030610.pdf At the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Yamamuro had won an Olympic gold medal as part of the Japanese men's artistic gymnastics Artistic gymnastics is a discipline of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kim Soo-myun
Kim Soo-myun (born 4 November 1986, Pohang) 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, as well as the South Korean 2007 World Championships team and 2008 and 2012 Olympic teams. His best event is floor exercise. 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 1986 births South Korean male artistic gymnasts Olympic gymnasts for South Korea Gymnasts at the 2008 Summer Olympics Gymnasts at the 2012 Summer Olympics Asian Games medalists in gymnastics Gymnasts at the 2006 Asian Games Gymnasts at the 2010 Asian Games Korea National Sport University alumni Sportspeople from Pohang Asian Gam ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Artur Davtyan
Artur Davtyan ( hy, Արթուր Դավթյան, born August 8, 1992) is an Armenian gymnast. He is a member of the Armenia national team in gymnastics. Davtyan is a bronze medalist in the men's vault event at the 2020 Summer Olympics, World Championship Gold Medalist in men's vault, European Youth Champion, silver medalist in the World Cup and an Olympian. Early life Arthur Davtyan was born on August 8, 1992, in Yerevan, Armenia. In 1998, at the age of 7, he began to do gymnastics. Since 2008, he is a member of the Armenian national gymnastics team. Career Youth In 2009, at the Youth Olympic Festival in Tampere, Finland, Davtyan, along with fellow Armenians Vahan Vardanyan and Arthur Tovmasyan, took 6th place in the team event among 23 teams. In the individual competition, Davtyan took the same place in 6th place in the all-around, 7th place in the vault, 6th place on the parallel bars and 9th place in the exercises on the rings. A year later, at the Junior European Championshi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jake Dalton
Jacob "Jake" Dalton (born August 19, 1991) is a retired American gymnast who was a member of the University of Oklahoma gymnastics team and the United States men's national gymnastics team. He represented the United States at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London and 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro. Dalton grew up in Sparks, Nevada, and is the son of Tim and Denise Dalton. Early life Dalton attended Spanish Springs High School in Washoe County, Nevada while training at Gym Nevada under coach Andrew Pileggi. After graduating, he received an NCAA scholarship to compete for the University of Oklahoma in 2009 where he earned All-America honors and won the NCAA men's gymnastics floor and vault titles in 2011. Gymnastics career Dalton was the U.S. National vault champion in 2009 and 2011, the floor champion in 2011, and the All-Around Gold medalist of the Winter Cup Challenge in 2011. Dalton was a member of the USA team that won the bronze medal in the 2011 World Artistic G ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shek Wai Hung
Shek Wai Hung (; born 10 October 1991) is an artistic gymnast from Hong Kong. He is the current Asian Games champion on vault. Gymnastics career Shek started gymnast training at the age of six. In 2008, Shek participated in the Pacific Rim Gymnastics Championships, where he won a gold medal in the junior vault final. At the 2010 Asian Games, Shek placed eighth in the individual all-around, and sixth on vault. In 2011, Shek participated in the World Championships in Tokyo, Japan, where he qualified fourth with an average score of 16.237 into the vault final – the first time ever for a Hong Kong gymnast to qualify into an event final at World Championships level. He came seventh in the final, having taken a big step forward on his first vault, with an average score of 15.950. Shek qualified to the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, the United Kingdom via the Olympic Test Event in January that year. There, he finished 12th in the all-around qualification with a score of 86.482. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mohamed El-Saharty
Mohamed El-Saharty (born 26 July 1990) is an Egyptian gymnast. He competed at 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 .... References External links * 1990 births Living people Egyptian male artistic gymnasts Olympic gymnasts for Egypt Gymnasts at the 2012 Summer Olympics Sportspeople from Giza African Games medalists in gymnastics Competitors at the 2015 African Games African Games gold medalists for Egypt African Games silver medalists for Egypt African Games bronze medalists for Egypt 21st-century Egyptian people {{Egypt-artistic-gymnastics-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 2014 World parallel bars champion, the 2015 European individual all-around champion and the 2017 European individual all-around champion. Verniaiev tested positive for the banned substance meldonium in an out-of-competition test in August 2020. He received a four-year ban, starting in November 2020. In early 2023 the Court of Arbitration for Sport reduced the ban to two years after Verniaiev successfully appealed his case. Personal life Verniaiev was born in Donetsk. He was educated at the Donetsk State Institute of Health, Physical Education and Sport. Verniaiev resides in Kyiv. He is coached by Gennady Sartynsky. Career 2011 During the 2011 Summer Universiade Verniaiev competed in the men's vault final, finishing in 7th with a sc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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