Oleg Vernyayev

In the team final Ukraine finished in 4th with a score of 271.526, missing out on a medal by less than 0.2 points.

Ukraine was initially awarded 3rd place for a bronze medal, however following an appeal from Japan over a pommel horse score, the Japanese team was awarded an extra 0.7 points, allowing them to move from 4th place to 2nd, knocking Ukraine out of the medals in the process.

In qualification he scored 88.964 to finish in 13th place.

He was victorious in the all-around final of the Ukrainian Championships, scoring 90.300 points and winning by a margin of 2.65 points over 2nd place Oleg Stepko.

Oleg Yuriyovych Verniaiev (Олег Юрійович Верняєв; born 29 September 1993) is a Ukrainian artistic gymnast.

During the 2011 Summer Universiade Verniaiev competed in the men's vault final, finishing in 7th with a score of 15.262.

He was also part of the Ukrainian team that finished 5th in the men's team final.

At the 2011 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships he competed in the team all-around event with Nikolai Kuksenkov, Vitaliy Nakonechnyi, Oleg Stepko, Igor Radivilov and Roman Zozulya, finishing in 5th.

He scored 14.461 on floor, 13.866 on pommel horse, 14.833 on vault, and 13.800 on parallel bars.

Verniaiev finished in 11th place in the individual all-around final with a score of 88.931.

Verniaiev finished 6th in the 2012 American Cup with a score of 88.132.

At the 2012 European Men's Artistic Gymnastics Championships he participated in the team all-around final for the Ukrainian team that finished in 5th.

Verniaiev competed for the national team at the 2012 Summer Olympics in the men's artistic team all-around, alongside Nikolai Kuksenkov, Vitalii Nakonechnyi, Oleg Stepko and Igor Radivilov, and the men's artistic individual all-around.

Verniaiev won the Ukrainian National Championships in 2013.

He took the silver medal in the individual all-around finals at the 2013 American Cup.

He won the bronze medal in the individual all-around at the 2013 European Championships in Moscow, Russia.

At the 2013 Summer Universiade, Verniaiev led his Ukrainian team (Ihor Radivilov, Oleg Stepko, Petro Pakhnyuk and Maksym Semiankiv) to a second-place finish in the team final, and qualified for the all-around final.

He won the all-around bronze medal (tied with Russian gymnast David Belyavskiy).

He won another bronze medal in the parallel bars final.

In March, Verniaiev won the American Cup in Arlington, Texas with a score of 90.597, 0.499 over silver medalist and 2013 World Championships all-around silver medalist Ryōhei Katō of Japan.

Verniaiev also became the FIG World Cup series champion.

Verniaiev is also the 2014 World parallel bars champion, the 2015 European individual all-around champion and the 2017 European individual all-around champion.

In May 2014, at the 2014 European Championships in Sofia, Bulgaria, Verniaiev contributed scores of 15.100 (floor), 14.400 (pommel horse), 14.900 (rings), 14.783 (vault), 15.591 (parallel bars), and 14.600 (horizontal bar), helping Ukraine win the team bronze medal with a total score of 262.087 points behind Great Britain.

In event finals, Verniaiev won the gold medal on the parallel bars (15.966) and won the bronze medal on vault (14.916).

He won gold on the parallel bars at the 2014 World Championships in Nanning, China.

After the wrong anthem (the anthem of Uzbekistan) was played during the medal ceremony, he said "It was written in my face that I didn't like it. They came up and apologised for the anthem and promised to change it for TV broadcast. But I thought it would be incorrect, because I screwed up my face and it will be even worse if the anthem is replaced."

He also made the parallel bars final, finishing in 2nd place with a score of 15.66, 0.1 points behind the winner Marcel Nguyen.

At the 2015 European Artistic Gymnastics Championships Verniaiev won the individual all-around with a score of 89.582, beating 2013 champion David Belyavskiy.

He also qualified to the parallel bars final where he won the gold medal with a score of 15.866.

At the 2015 European Games, Verniaiev was part of the Ukrainian team, winning silver in the team final behind Russia.

Verniaiev qualified into the all-around, floor, pommel horse, vault, parallel bars and high bar finals.

He won the all-around final with a score of 90.332, and the vault final with a score of 15.266.

He is the 2016 Olympic parallel bars champion and individual all-around silver medalist.

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.

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.