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Gymnastics At The 2020 Summer Olympics – Men's Vault
The men's vault (gymnastics), vault event at the 2020 Summer Olympics was held on 24 July and 2 August 2021 at the Ariake Gymnastics Centre. Unlike the other apparatus events, vault requires gymnasts to perform two exercises in order for results to count towards the vault final; most of the gymnasts perform only one (if they are participating in team or individual all-around) or none (if they are participating in only other apparatus). Approximately 20 gymnasts from 15 nations (of the 98 total gymnasts) competed two vaults in the qualifying round. Shin Jea-hwan of South Korea at the 2020 Summer Olympics, South Korea won the title on a tiebreaker over Russian Olympic Committee athletes at the 2020 Summer Olympics, ROC's Denis Ablyazin. It is Shin's first Olympic medal, while Ablyazin won his third consecutive silver on vault. Artur Davtyan of Armenia at the 2020 Summer Olympics, Armenia earned the bronze medal, both his first individual medal and the first medal for Armenia in a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ariake Gymnastics Centre
The Ariake Gymnastics Centre is a temporary sports arena located in the Ariake, Tokyo, Ariake district of Tokyo, Japan. Opened in October 2019, the venue was constructed to host the Gymnastics at the 2020 Summer Olympics, gymnastics events at the 2020 Summer Olympics and the Boccia at the 2020 Summer Paralympics, boccia events at the 2020 Summer Paralympics. References Venues of the 2020 Summer Olympics {{Japan-sports-venue-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
National Olympic Committee
A National Olympic Committee (NOC) is a national constituent of the worldwide Olympic movement. Subject to the controls of the International Olympic Committee, NOCs are responsible for organizing their people's participation in the Olympic Games. They may nominate cities within their respective areas as candidates for future Olympic Games. NOCs also promote the development of athletes and the training of coaches and officials at a national level within their geographies. National Olympic Committees As of 2020, there are 206 National Olympic Committees. These include each of the 193 member states of the United Nations, one UN observer state (Palestine) and two states with limited recognition (Kosovo and Taiwan). There are also ten dependent territories with recognized NOCs: four territories of the United States (American Samoa, Guam, Puerto Rico, and the United States Virgin Islands), three British Overseas Territories (Bermuda, the British Virgin Islands, and the Cayman Islan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yang Hak-seon
Yang Hak-seon ( ; born 6 December 1992) is a South Korean artistic gymnast who specialises in the vault. He is the first South Korean gymnast to win an Olympic gold medal. Personal life According to his Olympic profile, Yang started his gymnastics career at the age of 9, following his brother's footsteps. Yang is currently attending the Korea National Sport University. Yang's parents are Yang Gwan-gwon and Ki Suk-hyang. Their impoverished family previously lived in one of Gwangju's shantytowns, before relocating to North Jeolla Province's Gochang, in South Korea's countryside, in 2010, after his father, a construction worker, suffered from serious injuries. His family currently lives in a makeshift converted greenhouse constructed from PVC pipes. After Yang's father lost his job, Yang supported the family with a modest income from the Korea Gymnastic Association. Yang's coach Cho Sung-doe admitted that he had been unaware of the family's precarious financial situation befor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ahmet Önder
Ahmet Önder (born 11 July 1996) is a Turkish artistic gymnast. He represented Turkey at the 2020 Olympic Games. He is the 2019 World silver medalist on the parallel bars. Early life Önder was born in Ödemiş, Turkey in 1996. He was inspired to try gymnastics after watching the 2004 Olympic Games on television. Gymnastics career 2019 Önder competed at various World Cups throughout the year. At the European Championships he placed fifth in the all-around. At the European Games he won silver on horizontal bar behind Robert Tvorogal of Lithuania. In October Önder competed at the World Championships where he won silver on parallel bars behind Joe Fraser. This medal, alongside İbrahim Çolak's gold medal on rings, were the first medals won by Turkish gymnasts at the World Championships. Additionally, due to being a top-three finisher on an apparatus not part of a qualified team, Önder was able to qualify as an individual to the upcoming 2020 Olympic Games. 2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Caio Souza
Caio Campos Souza (born 12 September 1993) is a Brazilian male artistic gymnast and part of the national team. He participated at the 2015 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships in Glasgow. He competed at the 2020 Summer Olympics The , officially the and also known as , was an international multi-sport event held from 23 July to 8 August 2021 in Tokyo, Japan, with some preliminary events that began on 21 July. Tokyo was selected as the host city during the .... He is the first Brazilian gymnast to get medals at every apparatus at the FIG World Cups. Competitive history References External links * 1993 births Living people Brazilian male artistic gymnasts Place of birth missing (living people) Gymnasts at the 2015 Pan American Games Gymnasts at the 2019 Pan American Games Pan American Games gold medalists for Brazil Pan American Games silver medalists for Brazil Pan American Games bronze medalists for Brazil Pan American Games medalists in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carlos Yulo
Carlos Edriel Poquiz Yulo (born February 16, 2000) is a Filipino artistic gymnast who has won multiple medals at the World Artistic Gymnastics Championships. He is the first Filipino and the first male Southeast Asian gymnast to medal at the World Artistic Gymnastics Championships with his floor exercise bronze medal finish in 2018, and the first ever gold medal for the Philippines in 2019 on the same apparatus. This performance also qualified him to the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo. Early life and education Carlos Edriel Poquiz Yulo was born on February 16, 2000 to Mark Andrew Yulo and Angelica Yulo in Manila, Philippines, and was raised in Leveriza Street, Malate. He is the second of five children; one of his younger siblings, Drew, is also a gymnast. Yulo grew up watching Filipino gymnasts train and compete at the Rizal Memorial Sports Complex in Malate. Yulo attended Aurora A. Quezon Elementary School for his primary education in Manila, where he was already training for th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adem Asil
Adem Asil (né: Abdelrahman Elgamal ( ar, عبد الرحمن الجمل); born 21 February 1999) is an Egyptian-born Turkish male artistic gymnast. He represented Turkey at the 2020 Olympic Games and is the 2022 World Champion on still rings. Personal life Abdelrahman Elgamal was born in Alexandria, Egypt on . Gymnastics career Representing Egypt 2017 A member of the Egyptian national team, Elgamal took part in the Paris Challenge Cup in France and the Varna Challenge Cup in Bulgaria. He later competed at the World Championships in Montreal where he finished 37th in the all-around during qualification and did not advance to any event finals. Representing Turkey 2018–2020 Shortly after the 2017 World Championships, Elgamal's coach announced that he was moving to Turkey and invited Elgamal to showcase himself in front of the Turkish national coaches. They were impressed with "his work ethic, his evident strength, and his unshakable belief in himself" and invi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nikita Nagornyy
Nikita Vladimirovich Nagornyy ( rus, Никита Владимирович Нагорный, , nʲɪˈkʲitə nɐˈɡornɨɪ̯, born 12 February 1997 in Rostov-on-Don, Rostov Oblast, Russia) is a Russian artistic gymnast and two-time Olympian, representing Russia in 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 Nagornyy is the 2019 World All-Around Champion and the 2020 Olympic and 2018 World All-Around bronze medalist. He is an eight-time European gold medalist and a three-time Youth Olympic champion. Personal life Nagornyy has a YouTube account, and enjoys making YouTube vlogs in his free time. His grandmother is his inspiration. Tasked with disciplining him, she took him to a gymnastics club where one of her friends worked as a coach. Nagornyy has a Spanish language tattoo on his ribs reading ''salvame y guardame'' (sa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
UTC+9
UTC+09:00 is an identifier for a time offset from UTC of +09:00. During the Japanese occupations of British Borneo, Burma, Hong Kong, Dutch East Indies, Malaya, Philippines, Singapore, and French Indochina, it was used as a common time with Tokyo until the fall of the Empire of Japan. As standard time (year-round) ''Principal cities: Tokyo, Fukuoka, Hiroshima, Seoul, Pyongyang, Yakutsk, Koror, Dili, Jayapura, Ambon'' North Asia *Russia – Yakutsk Time **Far Eastern Federal District ***Amur Oblast, Sakha Republic (western part; west of the Lena River as well as territories adjacent to the Lena on the eastern side) ***Zabaykalsky Krai East Asia *Japan – Japan Standard Time *North Korea – Time in North Korea *South Korea – Korea Standard Time Oceania Micronesia *Palau Southeast Asia *East Timor – Time in East Timor *Indonesia – Eastern Indonesia Time **Eastern zone, including: ***Maluku Islands **** Maluku ****North Maluku ***Western New Guinea **** Papua * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Japan Standard Time
, or , is the standard time zone in Japan, 9 hours ahead of UTC ( UTC+09:00). Japan does not observe daylight saving time, though its introduction has been debated on several occasions. During World War II, the time zone was often referred to as Tokyo Standard Time. Japan Standard Time is equivalent to Korean Standard Time, Pyongyang Time (North Korea), Eastern Indonesia Standard Time, East-Timorese Standard Time and Yakutsk Time (Russia). History Before the Meiji era (1868–1912), each local region had its own time zone in which noon was when the sun was exactly at its culmination. As modern transportation methods, such as trains, were adopted, this practice became a source of confusion. For example, there is a difference of about 5 degrees longitude between Tokyo and Osaka and because of this, a train that departed from Tokyo would arrive at Osaka 20 minutes behind the time in Tokyo. In 1886, Ordinance 51 was issued in response to this problem, which stated: Accordi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gymnastics At The 2020 Summer Olympics – Men's Artistic Qualification
Qualification for men's artistic gymnastics competitions at the 2020 Summer Olympics was held at the Ariake Gymnastics Centre on 24 July 2021. 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 six apparatus finals. The competition was divided into three subdivisions. Subdivisions Gymnasts from nations taking part in the team all-around event were grouped together while the remaining 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. * ind: Individual gymnast from NOC with a qualified team. Results Team Individual all-around Floor Pommel horse Rings Vault Parallel bars Horizontal bar Notes References {{DEFAULTSORT:Gymnastics at the 2020 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
COVID-19 Pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic, also known as the coronavirus pandemic, is an ongoing global pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). The novel virus was first identified in an outbreak in the Chinese city of Wuhan in December 2019. Attempts to contain it there failed, allowing the virus to spread to other areas of Asia and later worldwide. The World Health Organization (WHO) declared the outbreak a public health emergency of international concern on 30 January 2020, and a pandemic on 11 March 2020. As of , the pandemic had caused more than cases and confirmed deaths, making it one of the deadliest in history. COVID-19 symptoms range from undetectable to deadly, but most commonly include fever, dry cough, and fatigue. Severe illness is more likely in elderly patients and those with certain underlying medical conditions. COVID-19 transmits when people breathe in air contaminated by droplets and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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