Gymnastics

Gymnastics is a group of sport that includes physical exercises requiring balance, strength, flexibility, agility, coordination, artistry and endurance.
The movements involved in gymnastics contribute to the development of the arms, legs, shoulders, back, chest, and abdominal muscle groups. Gymnastics evolved
from exercises used by the ancient Greeks that included skills for mounting and dismounting a horse. The most common form of competitive gymnastics is artistic
gymnastics (AG); for women, the events include floor, vault, uneven bars, and balance beam; for men, besides floor and vault, it includes rings, pommel horse,
parallel bars, and horizontal bar. The governing body for competition in gymnastics throughout the world is the Federation Internationale de Gymnastique (FIG).
Eight sports are governed by the FIG, including gymnastics for all, men's and women's artistic gymnastics, rhythmic gymnastics (women's branch only),
trampolining (including double mini-trampoline), tumbling, acrobatic, aerobic, parkour and para-gymnastics. Disciplines not currently recognized by FIG include
wheel gymnastics, aesthetic group gymnastics, TeamGym, men's rhythmic gymnastics (both the Spanish form which is identical to the women's version and the
Japanese version which is a different sport) and mallakhamba. Participants in gymnastics-related sports include young children, recreational-level athletes,
and competitive athletes at all skill levels.

Here are popular Ukrainian gymnasts

Liliia Podkopayeva (born 15 August 1978) is a Ukrainian former artistic gymnast. She is the 1995 world all-around champion, and the 1996 Olympic all-around and
floor exercise champion. Often thought of as a complete athlete, Podkopayeva was known for combining power, style, and balletic grace.
In March 1993, Lilia won her only National All Around Title in Ukraine. In April 1993, Podkopayeva competed at the World Artistic Gymnastics Championships in Birmingham,
England. She qualified for the vault final, but crashed on her first attempt and finished last with a score of 8.893.
In July, Podkopayeva competed at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia. In the team final, she contributed a combined compulsory and optional score of
78.061 toward the Ukrainian team's fifth-place finish. She then won the all-around final with a score of 39.255. In event finals, she placed fifth on uneven bars (9.787), second on balance beam (9.825), and first on floor (9.887).
She was the fourth gymnast to win the Olympic all-around title as the reigning world champion, and the first gymnast to win the all-around without winning a team medal.
She was also the last female gymnast to win the all-around title and an event-final gold medal until Simone Biles did this in 2016. In 2019, Podkopayeva joined the
coaching staff at Marcus Jewish Community Center of Atlanta's Perimeter Gymnastics.

Igor Radivilov (born 19 October 1992) is a retired Ukrainian gymnast and four-time Olympian, having competed at the 2012, 2016, 2020, and 2024 Olympic Games. Although he competed on all
apparatuses, he was best known as a vault and rings specialist. 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 fourth place in the team all-around final as part of the Ukrainian team along with Mykola Kuksenkov, Oleg Stepko, Vitalii Nakonechnyi and Oleg Verniaiev. Ukraine also takes pride on Radivilov
being their first Olympic medalist born in the post-Soviet era. Radivilov competed at the 2024 Olympic Games alongside Chepurnyi, Kovtun, Stelmakh, and Verniaiev. During the qualification round he
helped Ukraine qualify to the team final and individually he qualified to the vault final. During the team final Radivilov contributed scores on rings and vault towards Ukraine's fifth place finish.
In the vault final Radivilov fell on his first vault and finished the final in eighth place. On December 1, 2024 Radivilov announced his retirement from gymnastics, ending his career with one Olympic
medal, four World Championships medals, and fourteen European Championships medals.

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