David Belyavskiy

He also placed 5th in the all around final, scoring 89.765, and 5th in the high bar final, scoring 14.733.

David Sagitovich Belyavskiy (Давид Сагитович Белявский; born 23 February 1992) is a Russian artistic gymnast and three-time Olympian, representing Russia in 2012 and 2016 and ROC in 2020.

Belyavskiy competed in his first world championships in 2010, and finished 6th in all-around at the 2011 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships.

In 2012 Belyavskiy became the national champion on parallel bars.

Belyavskiy won the Russian Cup all-around in 2012.

He was part of the Russian team that competed at the 2012 Europeans where they won the silver medal behind Great Britain.

Belyavskiy then competed at the 2012 Summer Olympics, finishing 5th in the all-around finals and 7th in the pommel horse final.

He won bronze in the all-around at the 2012 Stuttgart World Cup.

Belyavskiy began his 2013 season by winning the Russian National all-around title and defending his parallel bars title.

Later, he became the 2013 European individual all-around champion with an overall score of 89.799 points edging out British gymnast Max Whitlock for the gold.

Belyavskiy, alongside the Russian team (Nikolai Kuksenkov, Emin Garibov, Denis Ablyazin and Nikita Ignatyev) won the team gold at the 2013 Summer Universiade in Kazan.

He won the all-around bronze medal (tied with Ukrainian gymnast Oleg Verniaiev).

At the event finals, he won a bronze medal on floor, and a silver medal on parallel bars behind compatriot Garibov.

Roughly a week before the 2013 World Championships Belyavskiy sustained an ankle injury.

He went on to compete at the World Championships however only qualified to the all around final in 14th place, coming 12th in the final with a score of 86.274.

In 2014 Belyavskiy won his 2nd consecutive national all around title and his 3rd consecutive national parallel bars title.

On May 19–25, at the 2014 European Championships in Sofia Belyavskiy contributed scores of 15.466 (floor), 13.200 (pommel horse), 15.166 (vault), 15.266 (parallel bar) and 14.600 (horizontal bar) for Russia and along with teammates (Denis Ablyazin, Aleksandr Balandin, Nikita Ignatyev, Nikolai Kuksenkov) won Russia the team event gold medal with a total score of 267.959, over 2 points ahead of defending champions Great Britain.

In event finals, he won silver on parallel bars with a score of 15.566 behind Ukrainian Oleg Verniaiev.

He also placed 8th in the floor final with a score of 14.866.

At the World Championships in Nanning, China, Belyavskiy qualified 2nd into the all around final, as well as qualifying to the high bar final and team final.

Belyavskiy competed on floor, pommel horse, vault, parallel bars and high bar to help the Russian team of Belyavskiy, Denis Ablyazin, Nikita Ignatyev, Nikolai Kuksenkov, Daniil Kazachkov and Ivan Stretovich to a 5th-place finish in the team final.

He won bronze in the parallel bars final with a score of 15.533 and placed 5th on floor with a score of 14.4.

In 2015, Belyavskiy won his third consecutive national all-around title and his fourth consecutive national parallel bars title.

At the 2015 European Championships in Montpellier, France, Belyavskiy had a rough time in the qualifications round, qualifying sixth to the all around final and third to the floor final, but did not make any other finals.

In the all-around final, he suffered a fall on pommel horse in the second rotation, but made a comeback to win silver with 88.131 behind Oleg Verniaiev.

Belyavskiy also won silver in the floor final behind Briton Kristian Thomas with a score of 15.066.

In June, Belyavskiy competed in the 2015 European Games, winning gold in the team competition.

Due to a wrist injury, he did not compete in the all-around, but he qualified for the floor, pommel horse and parallel bars finals.

He won the bronze in the floor final with a score of 15.000, placed fourth in the pommel horse final with a score of 13.900, and won the silver in the parallel bars final with a score of 15.700, only 0.033 points behind winner Oleg Stepko.

At the 2015 World Championships in Glasgow, Belyavskiy competed on all events in the team final to help team Russia finish in fourth place.

In the all-around final he placed eleventh with a score of 88.031 after a fall on vault.

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.

He married his fiancée, Maria, on October 30, 2016, in Santorini, Greece.

In September 2017 their daughter, Alyssia Belyavskaya, was born.

During an interview for the Match TV in September 2022, which conicided with the 2022 Russian mobilization, Belyavskiy said that there was no choice and he would go and serve in the Russian army if he received call-up papers.

Additionally he is the 2019 European Games champion, a five-time European Games medalist, seven-time European champion, and 18-time European medalist.

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 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.