Oleg Vernyayev
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| Alternative name(s) | Oleg Verniaiev | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Country represented |
 Ukraine | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born |
September 29, 1993 Donetsk, Ukraine | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 5 ft 3 in (1.60 m) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 55 kg (121 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Discipline | Men's artistic gymnastics | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Club | Armed Forces of Ukraine | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Head coach(es) | Gennady Sartynsky | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Oleg Yuriyovych Vernyayev (Ukrainian: Олег Юрійович Верняєв, Russian: Олег Юрьевич Верняев; born 29 September 1993, in Donetsk) is a Ukrainian artistic gymnast. He represented Ukraine at the 2012 Summer Olympics where he finished fourth with the team and eleventh in the all-around. He is the 2014 World Champion and 2014 European Champion on the parallel bars.
Personal Life
Vernyayev was educated at the Donetsk State Institute of Health, Physical Education and Sport. He speaks Russian and is coached by Gennady Sartynsky.[1]
Career
2011
During the 2011 Summer Universiade Verniaiev competed in the Men's Vault final, finishing in 7th position with a score of 15.262.[2] He was also part of the Ukrainian team that finished 5th in the Men's Team Final.[3] At the 2011 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships he competed in the Team all-around event, teaming with Mykola Kuksenkov, Vitalii Nakonechnyi, Oleg Stepko, Igor Radivilov and Roman Zozulya, finishing in 5th position. He scored 14.461 on floor, 13.866 on pommel horse, 14.833 on vault. and 13.800 on parallel bars.[4]
2012
Verniaiev finished in 6th position in the 2012 American Cup with a score of 88.132.[5] 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 position. He also contested the Parallel Bars final, finishing in 2nd place with a score of 15.66, 0.1 points behind the winner Marcel Nguyen.[6]
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 placed Oleg Stepko.[7]
He 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. In qualification he scored 88.964 to finish in 13th place. In the team final Ukraine finished in 4th position with a score of 271.526, missing out on a medal by less than 0.2 points. Ukraine were initially awarded 3rd place for a bronze medal however, following an appeal from Japan over a Pommel Horse score, they were awarded an extra 0.7 points, allowing them to move from 4th place to 2nd knocking Ukraine out of the medals in the process. He finished in 11th place in the individual all-around final with a score of 88.931.
2013
Verniaiev won the Ukrainian National Championships, He finished took the silver medal in individual all-around at the 2013 American Cup, He then won the bronze medal in all-around at the 2013 European Championships in Moscow, Russia.
At the 2013 Summer Universiade, Verniaiev led his Ukrainian team (Igor 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.
2014
In May 2014, at the 2014 European Championships in Sofia, Vernyayev contributed scores of 15.100 (foor), pommel horse (14.400), rings (14.900), vault (14.783), 15.591 (parallel bars) and 14.600 (horizontal bar), helping Team Ukraine win the Team bronze medal with a total score of 262.087 points behind Great Britain. In event finals, Vernyayev won the gold in parallel bars (15.966) and won bronze medal in vault (14.916) points.[8]
He won gold in parallel bars at the 2014 World Championships in Nanning. After the wrong anthem 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."[9]
2015
In March Vernyayev won the American Cup in Arlington, TX. He won with a score of 90.597, 0.499 over silver medalist and 2013 World Championships all-around silver medalist Ryohei Kato of Japan. USA's Donnell Whittenburg took 3rd.
At the 2015 European Artistic Gymnastics Championships Vernyayev 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, Vernyayev was part of the Ukrainian team, winning silver in the Team Final behind Russia. Vernyayev 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 placed 6th in the Floor Final with 14.233, and 5th on Pommel Horse (13.833), Parallel Bars (14.633) and High Bar (14.900)
Olympic results
2012 London Olympics
| Event | Position |  |
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Total |
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| Individual all-around | 11 | 14.533 (13) |
13.966 (14) |
14.866 (=7) |
16.233 (2) |
15.033 (12) |
14.300 (17) |
88.931 |
| Team all-around | 4 | 14.866 (16) |
16.266 (3) |
15.600 (2) |
14.466 (20) |
271.526 (team total) |
References
- ↑ Oleg Verniaiev. london2012.com
- ↑ (PDF) http://match.sz2011.org/pdf/GA/GAM005101/GAM005101.C73I.ENG.1.0.pdf. Retrieved August 2, 2012. Missing or empty
|title=(help) - ↑ (PDF) http://web.archive.org/web/20111121072350/http://match.sz2011.org/pdf/GA/GAM499000/GAM499000.C73A.ENG.1.0.pdf. Archived from the original (PDF) on November 21, 2011. Retrieved August 2, 2012. Missing or empty
|title=(help) - ↑ MEN'S TEAM FINAL WED 12 OCT 2011. 43rd ARTISTIC GYMNASTICS WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS Tokyo (JPN) 7–16 October 2011. gymnasticsresults.com
- ↑ Men Competition II Saturday, March 3. 2012 AT&T American Cup. usagym.org
- ↑ SENIORS APPARATUS FINALS. SUN 27 MAY 2012. 30th EUROPEAN ARTISTIC GYMNASTICS TEAM CHAMPIONSHIPS JUNIORS AND SENIORS. MONTPELLIER (FRA) 23–27 May 2012. gymnasticsresults.com
- ↑ Lichikova, Vernayev Win Ukrainian Nationals. The All Around (2012-06-27). Retrieved on 2012-10-18.
- ↑ "Ablyazin, Wilson Dominate European Finals". international gymnast. Retrieved 25 May 2014.
- ↑ "Ukrainian gymnasts return with medals from championship in China". Ukraine Today. 15 October 2014.
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