Gymnast Nikita Nagorny devotes most of his time to honing sportsmanship. In training, he gives all the best, goes home tired both mentally and physically. The athlete is convinced that in order to achieve high results, natural inclinations alone are not enough: success in sports comes only to workers.
From the biography of Nikita Nagorny
The future champion was born on February 12, 1997. His hometown is Rostov-on-Don. Here he spent his childhood, playing for SDYUSSHOR №2. When sports results began to grow, Nikita moved to the capital of Russia. O. I. Nechepurenko, A. I. Zabelin, V. V. Fudimov.
Since 2016, Nikita Vladimirovich Nagorny is not only a gymnast, but also a serviceman of the Russian Guard. His rank is junior lieutenant. It is not the first year that Nikita has to defend the honor of the country at international competitions, entering battles for awards.
Sports achievements of Nikita Nagorny
In 2014, Nikita received bronze in the all-around at the national championship among juniors. After that, he went to the European Championship. Here he took second place in the Russian national team and took gold in the vault. Nikita was chosen to participate in the Youth Olympic Games in Nanjing, where he added three gold medals, one silver and one bronze to his collection of awards.
Since 2015, Nagorny has been a member of the Russian national team. At the national championship in 2015, Nikita, as part of the Moscow national team, took third place, took gold in floor exercises and vault. He distinguished himself in exercises on the crossbar and uneven bars, becoming a bronze medalist in these types.
The growth of results gave Nikita the opportunity to become a participant in the European Championship, held in Montpellier. Here the young athlete consolidated his success by winning the vault.
Nikita Nagorny is the European champion in floor exercise. The Russian gymnast won this title in May 2016 in Bern.
In August 2016, Nagorny took part in the Olympic Games held in Rio de Janeiro. As part of the national team, he won a silver medal here. Based on the results of his participation in these competitions, Nagorny was awarded the Order of Merit for the Fatherland, 1st degree.
Nikita Nagorny - International Master of Sports.
Nikita Nagorny - video blogger
Several years ago, Nikita started a video blog where he tells a wide audience about his life. The most popular videos from this channel are gaining more than 300 thousand views.
Nikita admits that at some point he was simply tired of performing in half-empty stands. Even at the metropolitan competitions, the spectators were sometimes only the athletes themselves. Nagorny believed that the creation of a YouTube channel would attract new viewers. However, Nikita does not consider himself a blogger. He calls himself an informant for those who still do not know that there are spectacular sports in addition to hockey, football, biathlon and basketball.
Nikita's videos resonated with a wide audience. He began to receive comments and messages. Nagorny is proud that now there are those who decided to send their children to gymnastics after watching his channel.
Seeing how the audience of Nikita's blog is growing, many athletes followed his example and began to create something similar. The gymnast dreams of organizing a meeting with the channel's subscribers. Nikita does not believe in millions of admirers of his work. So far, he is satisfied with more modest results.
Nagorny's plans include the creation of a video program where other athletes will take part, including not only gymnasts. The piggy bank of potential plots is constantly replenished. It is a pity that intensive training leaves very little time for working with a networked audience, Nikita laments.
The creation of the channel was not without conflicts. Some coaches reproached the athlete for giving the wrong shots, distorting reality and only striving to become famous. Nikita came to the conclusion that a simple rejection of the new is at work here. After all, the information that Nagorny puts on the network can lead to changes in the world of gymnastics.
There were also ill-wishers among the athletes. Some of them believe that vlogging distracts from the training process. And yet, many people congratulate Nikita on his undoubted success in this area.
In sports work, the support of the fans helps a gymnast. Athletes get a lot of positive emotions when they feel that other people are rooting for them. Nikita likes it when children come to competitions: little fans do not hesitate to express their feelings, make noise, shout, applaud. Looking at them, adults also become more active in the stands.
Nikita Nagorny: champion and man
The athlete himself considers himself a serious person. And on others it sometimes makes the impression of a gloomy and stern boy. In their youth, Nikita and his friends listened to Basta with pleasure. He has always liked rap and hip-hop.
Nikita is very fond of reading. He is fascinated by books on psychology and business. But there is almost no time left for fiction. Since childhood, Nagorny's favorite book has been "Spartacus".
The gymnast's parents still live in Rostov-on-Don. They do not work: Nikita provides them with material support. But Moscow has long become a hometown for Nagorny, although he does not forget his real homeland.
The main life goals of a young athlete are related to the Olympic Games. He gladly participates in competitions of various levels, but he considers each to be only a stepping stone to the Olympic podium.
