Nikita Nagornyy

However, he only finished 41st in the floor qualifications with a 14.100 due to a near-fall and several steps out of bounds.

In the vault final, he won the European title with a 15.099.

His teammate, Denis Ablyazin, was only 0.016 behind him.

In the All Around Nagornyy was in 3rd place after the first day with a score of 89.033.

On the second day he placed second with a score of 89.166 to give him a combined score of 178.199 which won him the silver medal behind Nikolai Kuksenkov and ahead of former National and European Champion David Belyavskiy.

Nikita Vladimirovich Nagornyy (Никита Владимирович Нагорный, 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.

Nagornyy was bronze medalist in all-around at the 2014 Russian Championships.

Nagornyy was member of the Russian Team that won silver medal at the 2014 European Junior Championships, he qualified for the vault finals and won gold.

Nagornyy was selected to represent Russia in men's gymnastics at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics in Nanjing, China.

He won the all-around silver medal behind Britain's Giarnni Regini-Moran.

Nagornyy was the only gymnast to qualify to all 6 event finals.

He won gold in (rings, pommel horse, parallel bars), bronze medal in vault, 4th in floor exercise and 8th after a fall on horizontal bars.

Nagornyy was the most decorated male artistic gymnast at this Youth Olympics Game with a total of three gold, one silver, and one bronze medal.

In event finals he won gold on floor ahead of 2014 World Champion Denis Ablyazin and also won silver medals on vault, rings and parallel bars.

Nagornyy's first year as a senior gymnast was 2015.

At the 2015 Russian National Championships, his team finished in 4th, and he finished 5th in the all-around.

In the event finals, he tied for gold with Denis Ablyazin on both floor and vault and won bronze on parallel bars and high bar.

He was then selected to compete floor and vault at the 2015 European Championships.

Nagornyy qualified first for the vault final at the 2015 European Championships with a 15.050.

At the 2015 World Championships in Glasgow Nagornyy competed floor and vault in the Team Final to contribute to the Russian Team's 4th-place finish.

In Event Finals he became European Champion on Floor with a score of 15.566, also placing 6th in the Vault final with an average of 14.916 after a mistake on his second vault, and 7th in the Parallel Bars final with a score of 14.100 after a fall.

In September 2016, Nagorny joined the National Guard of Russia.

At the 2016 Russian National Championships Nagornyy's Team placed 3rd, winning the bronze medal.

Nagornyy was part of the Russia team for the 2016 European Championships.

In qualifications he competed on every event except high bar, helping Russia to qualify in first place for the Team Final and qualifying to 3 Event Finals: Floor, Vault and Parallel Bars.

In Team finals he again competed on 5 events, helping the team to win gold with a score of 271.378, nearly 3 points ahead of Great Britain.

On August 6–16, Nagornyy competed with the Russian Team (together with Ivan Stretovich, Denis Ablyazin, Nikolai Kuksenkov and David Belyavskiy) at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, he contributed scores of 15.000 in floor, 14.866 in rings, 15.400 vault; helping the Russian men's team win the silver medal with a total of 271.453 points.

Nagornyy also qualified in the vault finals where he finished in 5th place.

On December 18, 2018, Nagornyy married fellow Russian gymnast Daria Spiridonova.

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.

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 (save and protect me), a reference to a common Russian Orthodox phrase.

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.

In December 2020, he became the head of the Young Army Cadets National Movement.

In March 2022, he offered to forward gifts to Russian soldiers participating in the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine.

Nagornyy began gymnastics aged six, encouraged by his grandmother.

His favorite gymnasts are Alexei Nemov and Kohei Uchimura.