Artem Dolgopyat

In this name that follows Eastern Slavic naming customs, the patronymic is Olegovichand the family name is Dolgopyat.

Artem Dolgopyat
Артем Долгопят ארטיום דולגופיאט‎
Dolgopyat at Beit HaNassi in August 2021
Personal information
Full name	Artem Olegovich Dolgopyat
Country represented	Israel
Born	(1997-06-16) 16 June 1997 (age 27) Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine
Residence	Netanya, Israel
Height	1.64 m (5 ft 5 in) [1]
Weight	59 kg (130 lb) [1]
Discipline	Men's artistic gymnastics
Club	Maccabi Tel Aviv
Gym	Wingate Institute
Head coach(es)	Sergey Vaisburg [2]
Medal record Representing   Israel Men's artistic gymnastics Event 1st 2nd 3rd Olympic Games 1 1 0 World Championships 1 2 0 European Championships 2 4 1 Maccabiah Games 2 0 1 Total 6 7 2 Olympic Games 2020 Tokyo Floor Exercise 2024 Paris Floor Exercise World Championships 2023 Antwerp Floor Exercise 2017 Montreal Floor Exercise 2019 Stuttgart Floor Exercise European Championships 2020 Mersin Floor Exercise 2022 Munich Floor Exercise 2018 Glasgow Floor Exercise 2019 Szczecin Floor Exercise 2023 Antalya Floor Exercise 2024 Rimini Floor Exercise 2020 Mersin Vault Maccabiah Games 2017 Tel Aviv Floor Exercise 2017 Tel Aviv Pommel Horse 2017 Tel Aviv Vault FIG World Cup Event 1st 2nd 3rd World Cup 5 0 0 World Challenge Cup 5 5 0 Total 10 5 0

Artem Olegovich Dolgopyat (Hebrew : ארטיום אולגוביץ' דולגופיאט; Ukrainian : Артем Олегович Долгопят, romanized: Artem Olehovych Dolhopiat; born 16 June 1997) is an Israeli artistic gymnast who specializes in the floor exercise.

He is the 2020 Olympic champion and the 2023 World champion in the floor exercise. He also won two silver medals at the 2017 and 2019 World Championships in the floor exercise, and is the 2020 and 2022 European champion of that exercise. Dolgopyat won the silver medal in Men's floor representing Israel at the 2024 Paris Olympics.

Early life

Artem Dolgopyat was born in Dnipropetrovsk (now Dnipro), Ukraine. Dolgopyat's father Oleg, a former gymnast, is Jewish, and Dolgopyat's mother Angela Bilan is not Jewish. ^{[3] [4] [5]}

In 2009, at the age of 12, Dolgopyat immigrated with his family to Israel, where they first lived in Lod and then in Rishon LeZion. ^{[6] [3] [7]} He joined the gymnastics team of Maccabi Tel Aviv where he was trained by Israeli coach Sergey Vaisburg. ^{[8] [9]} His parents divorced in 2012. ^[10] 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. ^{[11] [12]} 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. ^{[13] [14] [15] [12]} He lives in Netanya, Israel, with his fiancee, Maria Sakovich, a translator in four languages. ^{[4] [16] [7]}

Athletic career

Dolgopyat trains in Israel at the Wingate Institute. ^[6]

Early career; Israeli junior champion

By the age of 12, when he moved to Israel, Dolgopyat was already a two-time national champion in Ukraine for his age group. ^[12]

In August 2014, at the age of 17, Dolgopyat competed in the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics in Nanjing, China, and finished 5th in vault, 7th in floor exercise, and 10th in the individual all-around event. ^[17]

2015–16; Israeli champion

On September 19, 2015, Dolgopyat competed in 'Grand Prix Osijek' in Croatia, and won the gold medal in floor exercise, scoring 14.800. ^{[18] [19]}

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. ^[14]

At the end of 2016, he took three months off from the sport, due to back pain. ^[11]

2017; Maccabiah Champion

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. ^{[20] [21]}

On May 20, 2017, Dolgopyat won the silver medal in the 2017 Grand Prix Osijek after scoring 14.700. ^[22]

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. ^[23]

In October 2017, at the 2017 Artistic Gymnastics World Championships held in Montreal, Canada, Dolgopyat won the silver medal in the floor exercise after scoring 14.533, behind Japan's three-time world champion Kenzō Shirai, while competing with an injured right foot. ^{[3] [2] [24] [25] [26]} He garnered the best Israeli result ever at the World Artistic Gymnastics Championships as he became the second Israeli gymnast to win a medal in the Championships (after his mentor and trainer Alex Shatilov, who won bronze medals in 2009 and 2011), and the first to win a silver medal. ^[2]

He was named the 2017 Israeli Sportsman of the Year. ^[2]

2018

Dolgopyat in 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. ^[27]

That year, he also won a number of medals on floor; gold from World Challenge Cup Paris, ^[28] gold from World Challenge Cup Szombathely, ^[29] silver from World Challenge Cup Koper, ^[30] and silver from World Challenge Cup Osijek. ^[31]

2019–20; European Champion

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. ^{[32] [33]}

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 ^[34]

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. ^[35] 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. ^[36] On the vault, Dolgopyat scored an average of 14.483 in the final and finished third. ^[37]

2020 Tokyo Olympics; Olympic Champion

At the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, he won gold for Israel on the floor exercise. ^{[38] [39] [40] [41] [42]} It was Israel's first Olympic medal in gymnastics, and second-ever gold medal at the Olympics. ^[2] Dolgopyat competed on the pommel horse and the floor exercise. He did not qualify to the pommel horse final after scoring 12.766 in qualifications. On the floor exercise, he qualified to the final in first place after scoring 15.200. On the floor exercise final, he scored 14.933, same as Rayderley Zapata from Spain, but finished first due to a higher difficulty score. ^[43] He said: "I wanted to cry on the medal podium but couldn’t, because I was in a storm of emotions. I cried on the inside." ^[44] Immediately after his win he said that his next dream was to win the medal again at the 2024 Paris Olympics. ^[44] His father said he was ecstatic at his son's success, and then added "No matter what, he could’ve done much better, but we don’t judge the winners.” ^[44]

Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett interrupted the weekly Israeli Cabinet meeting and called Dolgopyat, to congratulate him on winning his gold medal. ^[44] Dolgopyat received a hero’s reception at the Tel Aviv airport upon returning to Israel. ^[45]

2021–22; European Champion

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. ^[46]

At the 2022 Senior European Championships in Munich, Germany, he won the gold medal in the floor exercise. ^{[2] [47]}

2023; World Champion

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 Artistic Gymnastics World Championships in Antwerp, Belgium, he won the gold medal in the floor exercise. ^{[2] [48]} He had withdrawn from the all-around final where he was the 8th qualifier, in order to rest before the floor final.

2024–present; 2024 Paris Olympics

Dolgopyat represented Israel at the 2024 Paris Olympics in gymnastics at the Bercy Arena. ^[49]

He won the silver medal in Men's floor with a score of 14.966 in the final; it was his second Olympic medal. ^[50]

Achievements

Source: ^[41]

Year	Tournament	City	Apparatus	Place	Ref.
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		[51]
			Vault
	European Championships	Munich	Floor
	World Challenge Cup	Paris	Vault
2023	World Cup	Cottbus	Floor
	European Championships	Antalya	Floor
	World Championships	Antwerp	Floor
2024	Olympic Games	Paris	Floor

See also

• List of select Jewish gymnasts
• Sports in Israel

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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.