Artem Dolgopyat
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Club | Maccabi Tel Aviv | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Head coach(es) | Sergey Vaisburg [2] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Artem Olegovich Dolgopyat (
Early life
Artem Dolgopyat was born in
In 2009 at the age of 12, Dolgopyat immigrated with his family to Israel, where they lived in Lod.[5][8] He joined the gymnastics team of Maccabi Tel Aviv where he was trained by Israeli coach Sergey Vaisburg.[9][10] His parents divorced in 2012.[11] He attended the Shevah Mofet school in Tel Aviv, Israel; however he later dropped out of high school due to language difficulties and the burden of training.[12][13] He later studied at Tel Aviv University.[2]
He enlisted in the Israel Defense Forces, served at the Tel HaShomer base, and became a sergeant.[14][15][16][13] He lives with his fiancee, Maria Sakovich, a translator in four languages.[6][17][8]
Athletic career
Early career
By the age of 12, when he moved to Israel, Dolgopyat was already a two-time national champion in Ukraine for his age group.[13]
In August 2014, at the age of 17, Dolgopyat competed in the
2015-16
On September 19, 2015, Dolgopyat competed in 'Grand Prix Osijek' in Croatia, and won the gold medal in floor exercise, scoring 14.800.[19][20]
Later that year, Dolgopyat won the floor exercise in the Israeli Championship for the first time, defeating Israeli Olympian Alexander Shatilov, who later became his mentor and friend.[15]
At the end of 2016, he took three months off from the sport, due to back pain.[12]
2017
On April 22, 2017, Dolgopyat competed for his first time in the European Artistic Gymnastics Championships in Cluj-Napoca, Romania, and finished 4th in the floor exercise with a score of 14.33, one place behind bronze medalist Shatilov.[21][22]
On May 20, 2017, Dolgopyat won the silver medal in the 2017 Grand Prix Osijek after scoring 14.700.[23]
In July 2017, Dolgopyat competed in the 2017 Maccabiah Games in Israel, where he won two gold medals in the floor exercise and pommel horse, and a bronze medal in the vault.[24]
In October 2017, at the
He was named the 2017 Israeli Sportsman of the Year.[2]
2018
In August 2018 at the 2018 European Championships in Glasgow, Scotland, he won the silver medal in the floor exercise after scoring 14.466.[28]
That year, he also won a number of medals on floor; gold from World Challenge Cup Paris,[29] gold from World Challenge Cup Szombathely,[30] silver from World Challenge Cup Koper,[31] and silver from World Challenge Cup Osijek.[32]
2019-20
At the 2019 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships held in Stuttgart, Germany, Dolgopyat won the silver medal for the second time on floor exercise with a score of 15.200 behind Carlos Yulo of the Philippines, who scored a 15.300. Dolgopyat and Yulo were both awarded the same execution score of 8.800, but the latter had a higher difficulty score of 6.5 versus the former's 6.4, which resulted in Yulo securing this win.[33][34]
That year, Dolgopyat also competed at the 2019 European Championships held in Szczecin, Poland, and won the silver medal in the floor exercise after scoring 14.900 in the final[35]
At the 2020 European Championships in Mersin, Turkey, he won two medals; gold on the floor exercise with a score of 15.000 and bronze on the vault.[36] Dolgopyat became the second Israeli gymnast to win a European gold. He qualified to the floor final from the second place with a score of 14.933 and finished first in the final after scoring 15.000.[37] On the vault, Dolgopyat scored an average of 14.483 in the final and finished third.[38]
2020 Summer Olympics
At the
Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett interrupted the weekly Israeli Cabinet meeting and called Dolgopyat, to congratulate him on winning his gold medal.[48] Dolgopyat received a hero’s reception at the Tel Aviv airport upon returning to Israel.[49]
2021-22
Along with fellow Israeli gymnastic gold medalist Linoy Ashram he was named No. 47 on The Jerusalem Post's Top 50 Most Influential Jews of 2021.[50]
At the 2022 Senior European Championships in Munich, Germany, he won the gold medal in the floor exercise.[2]
2023
In March 2023 he tore a ligament in his knee during training.[2] Still, at the 2023 European Championships in Antalya, Turkey, he won the silver medal in the floor exercise.[2] After the tournament, he took 10 weeks away from gymnastics to rehabilitate his knee injury and an Achilles tendon injury.[2]
At the 2023
2024-present
Dolgopyat will represent Israel at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris in Men's individual all-around starting on July 27, 2024, with a final on July 31.[53]
Achievements
Source:[42]
Year | Tournament | City | Apparatus | Place | Ref. |
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2015 | World Challenge Cup | Osijek | Floor | ||
2017 | World Challenge Cup | Osijek | Floor | ||
World Championships | Montreal | Floor | |||
2018 | World Challenge Cup | Osijek | Floor | ||
Koper | Floor | ||||
European Championships | Glasgow | Floor | |||
World Challenge Cup | Szombathely | Floor | |||
Paris | Floor | ||||
World Cup | Cottbus | Floor | |||
2019 | World Cup | Baku | Floor | ||
European Championships | Szczecin | Floor | |||
World Challenge Cup | Osijek | Floor | |||
Szombathely | Floor | ||||
Paris | Floor | ||||
World Championships | Stuttgart | Floor | |||
2020 | European Championships | Mersin | Floor | ||
Vault | |||||
2021 | World Challenge Cup | Varna | Floor | ||
World Cup | Doha | Floor | |||
Olympic Games | Tokyo | Floor | |||
2022 | World Cup | Doha | Floor | ||
Cairo | Floor | ||||
Vault | |||||
Baku | Floor | [54] | |||
Vault | |||||
European Championships | Munich | Floor | |||
World Challenge Cup | Paris | Vault | |||
2023 | World Cup | Cottbus | Floor | ||
World Championships | Antwerp | Floor |
See also
- List of select Jewish gymnasts
- Sports in Israel
References
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External links
- Artem Dolgopyat at the International Gymnastics Federation
- Artem Dolgopyat at Olympedia
- Artem Dolgopyat at Olympics.com
- Artem Dolgopyat at the Olympic Committee of Israel (in Hebrew) (English translation)
- Artem Dolgopyat at The-Sports.org
- Artem Dolgopyat video from the 2017 World Championships
- Artem Dolgopyat on Instagram
- "The Road to Olympic Gold: Artem Dolgopyat's Story," i24NEWS English.