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Nazar Vyacheslavovich Chepurnyi (Ukrainian: Назар Вячеславович Чепурний; born 3 September 2002)[1] is a Ukrainian artistic gymnast. He represented Ukraine at the 2024 Summer Olympics. He was part of the gold medal winning team at the 2024 European Championships and the silver medal winning team at the 2019 Junior World Championships. Individually on vault he is the 201 World University Games champion, 2018 Youth Olympic silver medalist, and the 2023 World and 2024 European bronze medalist. Additionally he is the 2019 Junior World champion on horizontal bar.
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| Full name | Nazar Vyacheslavovich Chepurnyi | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Country represented |  Ukraine | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 3 September 2002 Cherkasy, Ukraine | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Residence | Kyiv, Ukraine | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Discipline | Men's artistic gymnastics | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Level | senior international elite | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Years on national team | 2016–present (UKR) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Club | Olympia Youth Sports School | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Head coach(es) | Gennady Sartynskyi | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Chepurnyi competed at the junior European Championships held in Bern, Switzerland.[2]
Chepurnyi competed at the Ukraine International Cup where he placed first in the all-around. He competed at the junior European Championships alongside Illia Kovtun, Vladyslav Hrynevych, Dmytro Shyshko, and Roman Vashchenko where he helped Ukraine finish fifth as a team; he finished ninth in the all-around. Chepurnyi next competed at Gymnasiade in Marrakesh. He finished second in the all-around behind Diogo Soares and third on rings but won the gold medal on horizontal bar.[3] He also won the bronze medal in the rings and the silver medal in the all-around event.[3]
Chepurnyi was selected to represent Ukraine at the 2018 Youth Olympic Games. He was part of the mixed multi-discipline team that won gold. He qualified to four individual finals: the all-around, floor exercise, vault, and parallel bars. He finished sixth in the all-around and fourth on both floor exercise and parallel bars. He won the silver medal on vault behind Brandon Briones.[4][5]
Chepurnyi competed at the Ukraine International Cup and the Ukrainian Championships where he finished second in the all-around behind Illia Kovtun. He was selected to compete at the inaugural junior World Championships in Győr alongside Kovtun and Volodymyr Kostiuk. While there Chepurnyi helped Ukraine finish second behind Japan and individually he placed seventh in the all-around. He qualified to three event finals: floor exercise, parallel bars, and horizontal bar. He won the bronze on floor exercise behind Ryu Sung-hyun and Félix Dolci, finished seventh on parallel bars, and won the gold medal on the horizontal bar.[1][6][7] He next competed at the European Youth Olympic Festival in Baku, Azerbaijan. He, alongside Kovtun and Kostiuk, won the gold medal in the team competition. Chepurnyi placed sixth in the all-around and fourth on vault but won three individual medals: gold on floor exercise and pommel horse and silver on rings behind Mukhammadzhon Iakubov.[8]
Chepurnyi competed at the World Challenge Cups in Varna and Cairo. He won the gold medal on vault at each and also won a bronze medal on pommel horse in Cairo. He ended up winning the 2020–2021 series title on vault.[9] Chepurnyi was selected to compete at the World Championships; he qualified to the vault final in first place. However, during the event final he crashed his second vault and finished seventh.
Chepurnyi competed at the Cottbus World Cup in February. On the first day of qualifications Russia launched a full-scale invasion of Chepurnyi's home country of Ukraine. Despite news of the war he won silver on vault behind Artur Davtyan.[10] Chepurnyi next competed at the Doha World Cup where he once again won silver on vault behind Davtyan.[11] At the Cairo World Cup Chepurnyi won his third consecutive silver medal on vault behind Davtyan.[12] Chepurnyi finished the World Cup circuit competing at the Baku World Cup where he won his long awaited gold on vault.[13]
In April Chepurnyi competed at the Cairo World Cup where he won silver on vault behind Artur Davtyan. In August he competed at the World University Games where he helped Ukraine finish 11th as a team. Individually he won gold on vault.[14] At the 2023 World Championships in Antwerp Chepurnyi helped Ukraine finish twelfth as a team during qualifications which earned them a team berth to the 2024 Olympic Games. Individually Chepurnyi qualified to the vault final. During the final earned a score of 14.766 to win the bronze medal behind Jake Jarman of Great Britain and Khoi Young of the United States.[15]
In December Chepurnyi was awarded with the title Merited Master of Sports of Ukraine for his achievements at the World Championships. [16]
Chepurnyi started the year competing at the World Cups in Cairo and Baku; he won silver and gold on vault respectively. He competed at the 2024 European Championships alongside Illia Kovtun, Igor Radivilov, Radomyr Stelmakh, and Oleg Verniaiev; together they qualified to the team final in first place. During apparatus finals Chepurnyi won bronze on vault behind Jake Jarman and Artur Davtyan.[17] During the team final Chepurnyi contributed scores on floor exercise, vault, and parallel bars towards Ukraine's first place finish.[18]
Chepurnyi competed at the 2024 Olympic Games alongside Kovtun, Radivilov, 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 Chepurnyi contributed scores on floor exercise and vault towards Ukraine's fifth place finish.[19] He finished sixth on vault, five-hundredths (0.05) of a point behind bronze medalist Harry Hepworth.[20]
| Year | Event | Team | AA | FX | PH | SR | VT | PB | HB |
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| Junior | |||||||||
| 2014 | |||||||||
| Kyiv Open Championships |  | ||||||||
| 2015 | Ukrainian Championships |  | | ||||||
| «Dnipro Waves» Championships | | ||||||||
| Beresh Cup | | ||||||||
| 2016 | |||||||||
| European Junior Championships | 7 | 10 | 5 | 6 | |||||
| International Junior Team Cup | 9 | | | | | | | | |
| 2017 | Barborka Cup | | 4 | ||||||
| Ukraine International Cup | | | | | | ||||
| Junior Japan International | 11 | 5 | 6 | ||||||
| 2018 | Ukraine International Cup |  | | | | | | | |
| European Junior Championships | 5 | 9 | |||||||
| Gymnasiade | | 4 | | 4 | | ||||
| President's Cup | | | 4 | | | | | ||
| Youth Summer Olympics Qualifier | 12 | ||||||||
| Youth Summer Olympics | | 6 | 4 | | 4 | ||||
| Swiss Cup Juniors | | | |||||||
| 2019 | Ukraine International Cup | | | | | | | ||
| Ukrainian Championships | | | | | | | | ||
| Junior World Championships | | 7 | | 7 | | ||||
| Euro Youth Olympic Festival | | 6 | | | | 4 | |||
| Senior | |||||||||
| 2020 | Ukrainian Championships | 29 | | | |||||
| 2021 | Ukrainian Championships | 5 | 6 | 4 | |||||
| Ukraine International Cup | | 7 | | | |||||
| Varna Challenge Cup | | ||||||||
| Cairo Challenge Cup | | | 4 | ||||||
| World Championships | 7 | ||||||||
| Sport School Championships | | | | ||||||
| 2022 | Cottbus World Cup | | |||||||
| Doha World Cup | | ||||||||
| Cairo World Cup | | 7 | |||||||
| Baku World Cup | | ||||||||
| 2023 | Ukrainian Championships | 4 | | ||||||
| Cairo World Cup | | ||||||||
| World University Games | 11 | | |||||||
| Mersin Challenge Cup | | | |||||||
| World Championships | 12 | | |||||||
| 2024 | Cairo World Cup | | |||||||
| Baku World Cup | | ||||||||
| European Championships | | | 6 | ||||||
| Olympic Games | 5 | 6 | |||||||
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