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Nikolai Kuksenkov

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In this name that follows Eastern Slavic naming customs, the patronymic is Yulievich and the family name is Kuksenkov.
Nikolai Kuksenkov
Full nameNikolai Yulievich Kuksenkov
Alternative name(s)Mykola Yuliyovych Kuksenkov
Country represented Russia
Former countries represented Ukraine
Born (1989-06-02) 2 June 1989 (age 35)
Kiev, Ukraine SSR, Soviet Union
Height172 cm (5 ft 8 in)
Weight64 kg (141 lb)
DisciplineMen's artistic gymnastics
ClubDynamo
Assistant coach(es)Igor Kalabushkin
Medal record
Representing  Russia
Men's artistic gymnastics
Olympic Games
Silver medal – second place 2016 Rio de Janeiro Team
World Championships
Silver medal – second place 2018 Doha Team
European Games
Gold medal – first place 2015 Baku Team
European Championships
Gold medal – first place 2014 Sofia Team
Gold medal – first place 2016 Bern Team
Gold medal – first place 2018 Glasgow Team
Summer Universiade
Gold medal – first place 2013 Kazan Team
Gold medal – first place 2013 Kazan All-around
Gold medal – first place 2013 Kazan Pommel horse
Representing  Ukraine
European Championships
Bronze medal – third place 2009 Milan Horizontal bar
Bronze medal – third place 2011 Berlin All-around
Summer Universiade
Gold medal – first place 2011 Shenzhen All-around
Silver medal – second place 2011 Shenzhen Horizontal bar

Nikolai Yulievich Kuksenkov (Russian: Николай Юльевич Куксенков, Ukrainian: Микола Юлійович Куксенков; born 2 June 1989) is a retired Russian gymnast who won a silver medal in the team event at the 2016 Summer Olympics. He competed for Ukraine for many years and moved to Russia after the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, where he placed fourth in the all-around and fourth with the team.[1]

Personal life

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Kuksenkov was born on 2 June 1989 in Kiev, Ukraine SSR, Soviet Union. He received Russian citizenship on 23 April 2013.[2]

Career

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For Ukraine

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Kuksenkov was a member of the junior Ukrainian team that won team gold at the European Championships. In 2008, he finished 4th in all-around at the 2008 European Championships, Kuksenkov missed qualifying in the Ukrainian Team for the 2008 Summer Olympics because of an injury where he underwent surgery and took a while for the recovery. He won gold in All-around and silver in Horizontal Bar at the 2011 Summer Universiade. He won bronze medal in All-around at the 2011 European Championships.

He competed for Ukraine's national team at the 2012 Summer Olympics in the Men's artistic team all-around and the Men's artistic individual all-around.[3] The Ukrainian team, consisting of Kuksenkov, Igor Radivilov, Vitalii Nakonechnyi, Oleg Stepko and Oleg Verniaiev finished in 4th place in the team final. They were initially awarded 3rd position although a successful appeal from the Japanese team over one of their athletes scores resulted in Japan being promoted from 4th to 2nd place, displacing Ukraine from the medals.[4] In the individual final Kuksenkov also finished in 4th position, again just missing out on a medal.[3]

For Russia

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In December 2012, Kuksenkov decided to switch to the Russian team for family reasons.[citation needed] Now competing for Russia, he returned to international competition at the 2013 Summer Universiade, in Kazan. Kuksenkov, alongside the Russian team (Emin Garibov, David Belyavskiy, Denis Ablyazin and Nikita Ignatyev) won Russia the team gold medal. He won gold medal in Pommel Horse and defended his All-around title in Kazan winning another gold medal.

On May 19–25, at the 2014 European Championships in Sofia, Kuksenkov contributed scores of 15.133 (pommel horse), 15.066 (rings), 14.866 (parallel bar) and 14.833 (horizontal bar) for Russia and along with teammates (Denis Ablyazin, Aleksandr Balandin, Nikita Ignatyev, David Belyavskiy) won Russia the Team Event gold medal with a total score of 267.959 ahead of Great Britain. At the 2014 World Championships in Nanning, Kuksenkov also competed along teammates (Denis Ablyazin, David Belyavskiy, Nikita Ignatyev, Daniil Kazachkov and Ivan Stretovich) with Team Russia finishing 5th in the Team Final.

In June 2015, Kuksenkov competed in the 2015 European Games, winning gold in the Team Competition (with teammates David Belyavskiy and Nikita Ignatyev).[5]

In April 2016, Kuksenkov became the subject of turmoil with the news spreading that he had tested positive for meldonium in a failed drugs test.[6] The announcement came a day after he was crowned the Russian National champion,[7] leading to his withdrawal from the remainder of the competition.[8] He was temporarily suspended from Competition, however On April 13, the World Anti-Doping Agency gave amnesty to athletes with the presence of less than 1 microgram of meldonium in doping samples in tests conducted on athletes before March 1, 2016 is acceptable, WADA cites due to uncertainties and lack of studies for how long meldonium stays in the body.,[9] his suspension was lifted and he was allowed to train with the Russian Team for the 2016 European Championships.

At the 2016 European Championships in May, Kuksenkov competed on pommel horse (15.066), parallel bars (14.266) and high bar (14.200) to help the Russia team gold with a score of 271.378. He also qualified to the pommel horse final where he finished 5th with a score of 14.566 after a fall.

Kuksenkov won his first Olympic silver medal at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Team event (together with Denis Ablyazin, Nikita Nagornyy, Ivan Stretovich and David Belyavskiy).[10]

In December 2019, Kuksenkov announced his retirement from competitive gymnastics in an Instagram post, stating that he would start working as a coach for the National Russian team.[11][12]

Competitive history

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Year Event Team AA FX PH SR VT PB HB
2006 World Championships 21st
2009 World Championships 9th
2010 World Championships 4th
2011 European Championships 3rd 4th 6th
World Championships 5th 7th
2012 Olympic Games 4th 4th
2013 Universiade 1st 1st 1st
World Championships
2014 European Championships 1st 4th 5th
World Championships 5th 9th 8th 6th
2015 National Championships 1st 2nd 5th 2nd 2nd 1st
European Championships 11th
European Games 1st
World Championships 4th 6th
2016 National Championships 4th 1st
European Championships 1st 5th
Olympic Games 2nd
2017 Russian Cup 4th 8th
2018 National Championships 2nd 33rd 2nd 3rd
Russian Cup 2nd 8th
European Championships 1st 5th
World Championships 2nd

See also

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References

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  1. ^ "Medal Count - Olympic Results & Medalists - IOC". Archived from the original on 3 January 2013. Retrieved 3 April 2016.
  2. ^ "ФЦП-пресс - Николай Куксенков стал гражданином России - Новости". Archived from the original on 2013-07-06. Retrieved 2013-04-24.
  3. ^ a b "Mykola Kuksenkov". BBC Sport. Retrieved 11 September 2012.
  4. ^ "Olympics gymnastics: Team bronze for Britain after appeal". BBC Sport. Archived from the original on 30 July 2012. Retrieved 11 September 2012.
  5. ^ "I. EUROPEAN GAMES 2015 - Men's Artistic Gymnastics Competitions". gymmedia.com. gymmedia. Retrieved 20 June 2015.
  6. ^ "AFP: Gymnastics - Russian Kuksenkov positive for meldonium". uatoday.tv. Retrieved 3 April 2016.
  7. ^ "Top Russian gymnast Nikolai Kuksenkov fails drug test as meldonium found in sample". Retrieved 3 April 2016.[permanent dead link]
  8. ^ "Russia's best male gymnast Nikolai Kuksenkov fails drug test for meldonium". The Sydney Morning Herald. 2 April 2016. Retrieved 3 April 2016.
  9. ^ Dmitriy Rogovitskiy (13 April 2016). "Doping-WADA announces meldonium amnesty". Reuters. Archived from the original on April 16, 2016.
  10. ^ "Russian men's gymnastics team win silver in multidiscipline competitions". Itar-Tass. Retrieved 2016-08-09.
  11. ^ Baladzhaeva, Liubov (26 December 2019). "Nikolai Kuksenkov announced retirement". GymNovosti. Retrieved 12 September 2020.
  12. ^ Kuksenkov, Nikolai. "Nikolai Kuksenkov on Instagram". Instagram. Archived from the original on 2021-12-24. Retrieved 12 September 2020.
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