Nikita Nagornyy (RUS) sets standard of expectations

2019 World and European all-around champion Nikita Nagornyy (RUS) has set the standard of expectations in the lead-up to the Olympic Games as he qualified in first place for the all-around final. Nagornyy also advances to five out of the six available apparatus finals: floor, pommel horse, rings, vault and parallel bars.

The Russian all-arounder competed strong across all six apparatus to finish with a total of 87.097 points. Nagornny’s teammates David Belyavskiy (85.398) and Aleksandr Kartsev (84.731) finished in second and third. Kartsev won’t advance to the all-around final due to the two-per-country rule, but with his score he placed first among the eligible gymnasts to obtain a ticket to the Tokyo Olympics. However, this will depend on the World Cup series were one more competition needs to take place in Doha and where teammate Vladyslav Poliashov is currently second on parallel bars with the maximum score of 90 behind . Turkey’s Adem Asil, who finished in fourth place in the all-around, is the second eligible gymnast and is sure of his ticket to Tokyo following a stunning all-around performance to score 84.032 points. Nicola Bartolini of Italy is next in line. The FIG will officially communicate the Olympic qualifiers after the conclusion of the World Cup series.

Although top all-around qualifier Nagornyy secured himself five apparatus finals, he didn’t qualify in the top spot in any of the events. Teammate Kirill Prokopev qualified in first for the final on floor exercise (15.066). 2016 Olympic rings champion Eleftherios Petrounias (GRE) was the top qualifier on still rings with a massive score of 15.366 to finish well ahead of Italy’s Salvatore Maresca (14.933). 2018 European pommel horse champion Rhys McClenaghan (IRL) qualified in first place for the pommel horse final, scoring a superb 14.766 points while Andrey Medvedev from Israel took the top spot on vault (14.666). German gymnasts Lukas Dauser and Andreas Toba took first place on parallel bars (15.166) and horizontal bar (14.433), respectively.

 

Top 8 all-around

1) Nikita NAGORNYY (RUS) – 87.097

2) David BELYAVSKIY (RUS) – 85.398

3) Ahmet ONDER (TUR) – 84.131

4) Adem ASIL (TUR) – 84.032

5) Pablo BRAEGGER (SUI) – 82.665

6) Nicola BARTOLINI (ITA) – 82.157

7) Robert TVOROGAL (LTU) – 81.831

8) Ivan TIKHONOV (AZE) – 81.432

 

Qualified to apparatus finals:

Floor Exercise

1 – Kirill PROKOPEV (RUS) 15.066

2 – Nikita NAGORNYY (RUS) 15.066

3 – Benjamin GISCHARD (SUI) 14.666

4 – Adem ASIL (TUR) 14.600

5 – Yahor SHARAMKOU (BLR) 14.566

6 – Nicola BARTOLINI (ITA) 14.558

7 – Dimitar DIMITROV (BUL) 14.533

8 – Ahmet ONDER (TUR) 14.466

 

Pommel horse

1) Rhys MC CLENAGHAN (IRL) – 14.766

2) Joshua NATHAN (GBR) – 14.533

3) Gagik KHACHIKYAN (ARM) – 14.300

4) Artur DAVTYAN (ARM) – 14.266

5) Joe FRASER (GBR) – 14.166

6) David BELYAVSKIY (RUS) – 14.133

7) Nikita NAGORNYY (RUS) – 14.066

8) Illia KOVTUN (UKR) – 14.066

 

Still rings

1) Eleftherios PETROUNIAS (GRE) – 15.366

2) Vahagn DAVTYAN (ARM) – 14.966

3) Salvatore MARESCA (ITA) – 14.933

4) Artur AVETISYAN (ARM) – 14.833

5) Igor RADIVILOV (UKR) – 14.800

6) Vinzenz HOECK (AUT) – 14.766

7) Ibrahim COLAK (TUR) – 14.733

7) Nikita NAGORNYY (RUS) – 14.733

 

Vault

1 – Andrey MEDVEDEV (ISR) 14.666

2 – Nikita NAGORNYY (RUS) 14.583

3 – Giarnni REGINI-MORAN (GBR) 14.583

4 – Artur DAVTYAN (ARM) 14.566

5 – Loris FRASCA (FRA) 14.550

6 – Courtney TULLOCH (GBR) 14.516

7 – Yahor SHARAMKOU (BLR) 14.483

8 – Igor RADIVILOV (UKR) 14.483

 

Parallel Bars

1) Lukas DAUSER (GER) – 15.166

2) Ferhat ARICAN (TUR) – 15.133

3) Christian BAUMANN (SUI) – 14.933

4) David BELYAVSKIY (RUS) – 14.866

5) Nikita NAGORNYY (RUS) – 14.833

6) Pablo BRAEGGER (SUI) – 14.833

7) Ahmet ONDER (TUR) – 14.800

8) Illia KOVTUN (UKR) – 14.666

 

Horizontal Bar

1) Andreas TOBA (GER) – 14.433

2) Pablo BRAEGGER (SUI) – 14.100

3) Carlo MACCHINI (ITA) – 14.066

4) Christian BAUMANN (SUI) – 13.833

5) Krisztian BALAZS (HUN) – 13.800

6) David BELYAVSKIY (RUS) – 13.733

7) Ahmet ONDER (TUR) – 13.733

8) Adem ASIL (TUR) – 13.700

 

You can find the complete results on https://www.europeangymnastics.com/event/2021-european-championships-artistic-gymnastics/results

The competition continues tomorrow with the all-around finals for both men and women.