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Biography
Ihor Vitaliyovych Radivilov (Ukrainian: Ігор Віталійович Радівілов; born 19 October 1992) is a Ukrainian gymnast. He is the 2012 Olympics vault bronze medalist.
Personal life
Radivilov was born on 19 October 1992 in Mariupol. On 4 September 2016, he married to Ukrainian gymnast Angelina Kysla.
Career
Radivilov won silver medal in vault at the 2012 European Championships in Montpellier, France. He competed for the national team at the 2012 Summer Olympics in the men's artistic team all-around and the men's vault. He earned a bronze medal in the vault final at 2012 Summer Olympics with a score of 16.316. He also finished in 4th place in the team all-around final as part of the Ukrainian team along with Mykola Kuksenkov, Oleh Stepko, Vitalii Nakonechnyi and Oleh Vernyayev.
Radivilov won gold in rings at the 2013 European Championships. At the 2013 Summer Universiade in Kazan, he and the Ukrainian team (Vernyayev, Stepko, Petro Pakhnyuk and Maksym Semiankiv) finished second in the team final. He won bronze in the rings and vault finals behind Russian gymnast Denis Ablyazin.
In May 19-25 2014, at the 2014 European Championships in Sofia. Radivilov contributed scores of 14.266 (floor), 15.300 (rings) and 14.700 (vault), helping his country win the team bronze medal with a total score of 262.087 points, behind Great Britain. In event finals, Radivilov won the silver medal in vault (15.050) behind Denis Ablyazin.
At the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, Radivilov debuted a new vault in the event finals: a handspring triple front somersault, which had the highest difficulty score of 7.0. Although he sat down on landing, his feet did touch first and thus a score was given, which subsequently contributed to the International Gymnastics Federation (FIG) in formally naming the skill after him, "The Radivilov". However due to the potential danger and injuries associated with training and performing this skill, the FIG have since officially banned it from competition and removed it from the 2017-2020 Code of Points for gymnastics.