Dmitry Kasperovich (born 15 October 1977) is a Belarusian

gymnast Gymnastics is a type of sport that includes physical exercises requiring balance, strength, flexibility, agility, coordination, dedication and endurance. The movements involved in gymnastics contribute to the development of the arms, legs, sh ...

. He competed 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 Na ...

and 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 ...

. He is affiliated with SKA Minsk. Kasperovich is a

vault Vault may refer to: * Jumping, the act of propelling oneself upwards Architecture * Vault (architecture), an arched form above an enclosed space * Bank vault, a reinforced room or compartment where valuables are stored * Burial vault (enclosure ...

specialist. Kasperovich grew up in Minsk and started to train in gymnastics at the age of six. Since 1995, he was competing internationally, and in 1997, he won a silver medal in the team competition at the

1997 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships The 33rd Artistic Gymnastics World Championships were held in Lausanne , neighboring_municipalities= Bottens, Bretigny-sur-Morrens, Chavannes-près-Renens, Cheseaux-sur-Lausanne, Crissier, Cugy, Écublens, Épalinges, Évian-les-Bains (FR- ...

. In 2000, he qualified in the vault competition at the Olympics but got injured just before the Olympics and did not compete. In 2004, Belarus did not qualify for the Olympics. At the 2008 Olympics, Kasperovich had the fourth-highest score on the vault in the qualifying round and advanced to the final. He finished in sixth place. He also competed in the floor exercise, rings, parallel bars, and horizontal bar in Beijing, with less success. In 2012, competing only on the vault, he had the ninth-best score in qualifying, just missing the eight-man final by 0.133 points. On the vault, he earned a silver medal at a stage of the 2005–2006 FIG Artistic Gymnastics World Cup series and a bronze medal at the Paris event during the 2011 FIG Artistic Gymnastics World Cup series. He won the 2002 European Men's Artistic Gymnastics Championships in the vault and was the silver medalist in

2008 File:2008 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: Lehman Brothers went bankrupt following the Subprime mortgage crisis; Cyclone Nargis killed more than 138,000 in Myanmar; A scene from the opening ceremony of the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing; ...

. He was a member of the

2001 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships The 35th Artistic Gymnastics World Championships were held in Ghent, Belgium, in 2001 at the Flanders Sports Arena The Flanders Sports Arena ( nl, Topsporthal Vlaanderen) is a multi-purpose indoor arena in Ghent, Belgium. Opened in 2000, the F ...

gold medal team and the

silver medal team. Kasperovich won a bronze medal in the floor exercise at the

2001 Summer Universiade The 2001 Summer Universiade, also known as the XXI Summer Universiade, was an international multi-sport event that took place in Beijing, China, between 22 August and 1 September. A total of 6,757 athletes from 165 nations took part in 12 sports ...

. In 2010, at the age 33 and the only member of the 2001 World Champion team still competing at that point, Kasperovich won the Belarusian championship in the vault. However, he was not alone among aging Belarusian sportspeople at the time; he was among the examples cited of the 2012 Olympic cohort being filled with older competitors with no apparent replacements. In 2012, Kasperovich decided to retire from competitions and applied to

Cirque du Soleil Cirque du Soleil (, ; "Circus of the Sun" or "Sun Circus") is a Canadian entertainment company and the largest contemporary circus producer in the world. Located in the inner-city area of Saint-Michel, it was founded in Baie-Saint-Paul on 16 Ju ...

. He was accepted and spent a year in Canada, but subsequently returned to Minsk and started to work as a coach.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Kasperovich, Dmitry 1977 births Living people Belarusian male artistic gymnasts Olympic gymnasts of Belarus Gymnasts at the 2008 Summer Olympics Gymnasts at the 2012 Summer Olympics Gymnasts from Minsk Medalists at the 2001 Summer Universiade Universiade medalists in gymnastics Universiade bronze medalists for Belarus European champions in gymnastics 21st-century Belarusian people