Yuri Sergeyevich Ryazanov

Yuri Sergeyevich Ryazanov medal table
Russia
World championships
silver	2006 Aarhus	team
bronze	2009 London	All-around
European championships
bronze	2007 Amsterdam	All-around
gold	2008 Lausanne	team
bronze	2009 Milan	All-around
Russian championships
silver	2005	Horizontal bar
silver	2006	team
silver	2007	All-around
silver	2007	Ingots
silver	2007	team
bronze	2007	Rings
silver	2008	All-around
silver	2008	Ingots
silver	2008	team
bronze	2009	All-around

Yuri Sergejewitsch Ryazanow ( Russian Ю́рий Серге́евич Ряза́нов ; born March 21, 1987 in Vladimir ; † October 20, 2009 near Worscha near Sobinka ) was a Russian gymnast who was considered one of the greatest gymnasts in his country. With a height of 1.70 meters, his competition weight was 69 kilograms.

Life

Yuri Ryazanov began gymnastics in 1992 under the former Soviet master Igor Kalabushkin . His first success came in 2005 at the European Junior Championships in his home country, where he won two medals. Just a year later, Ryazanov was appointed to the Russian national team for seniors and appeared internationally at the World Cup in Shanghai, where he reached the finals on the pommel horse and on the rings and finished fifth and eighth respectively. Also in 2006 he took part for the first time in the World Championships in Aarhus , Denmark , where he qualified for the all-around final and finished 16th and won the silver medal with the team. On the floor, pommel horse, parallel bars, horizontal bar and on the rings, he missed a final participation.

At the European Championships 2007 in Amsterdam, Ryazanov won his first individual medal at international senior championships with bronze (89,000 points) in the all-around competition behind Russian European champion Maxim Dewjatkowski (90,250) and German Fabian Hambüchen (89,675). He also started on the floor, pommel horse, parallel bars, horizontal bar and on the rings, but did not reach a device finale. At the following world championships in Stuttgart, Ryazanov did not get beyond a 13th place in the all-around final and again did not reach a device final.

A year later he finished eighth on the rings at the European Championships in Lausanne, having narrowly missed a final place in previous competitions, and was included in the squad for the Summer Olympics . In Beijing Ryazanov again presented himself strongest in the all-around competition, but where he did not get beyond a 17th place in the qualification and also did not reach a device final. With the Russian men's team as the reigning European champion, he missed a medal in China's victory and finished sixth in the team competition together with Maxim Dewjatowski, Anton Golozuzkow, Sergei Chorochordin, Nikolai Krjukow and Alexander Pluschnikow. At the World Cup in Moscow in the same year he won the bronze medal on parallel bars.

In the 2009 season, Ryazanov presented himself stronger than ever. At the European Championships in Milan at the end of March, the athlete won bronze again after 2007 (88,200 points) in the all-around competition behind the winner Fabian Hambüchen (89,175) and the British Daniel Keatings (88,275). At the following world championships in mid-October, Ryazanov benefited from an injury-related cancellation of Hambüchen and won with 88,400 points bronze in the all-around competition behind the Japanese world champion Kōhei Uchimura (91,500 points) and Keatings (88,925). It was the first all-around medal by a Russian gymnast at world championships since Nikolaj Krjukov won the world championship in 1999.

Yuri Ryazanov was a member of CSKA Moscow and was most recently trained by Yevgeny Nikolko and his discoverer Igor Kalabuschkin. He studied at the sports college in his hometown. In 2009 Ryazanov started twice in the Bundesliga for Fabian Hambüchen's club KTV Straubenhardt . Although he spoke little English, the German coaches considered him communicative.

Five days after his success at the World Championships in London, Ryazanov at the age of 22 was killed in a traffic accident near his hometown Vladimir when his car collided head-on with an oncoming car on an expressway.

Web links

• Yuri Sergejewitsch Ryazanow in the database of the Fédération Internationale de Gymnastique (English)
• Profile at CSKA Moscow (Russian)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Turner Ryazanov in a fatal accident at Spiegel Online , October 20, 2009 (accessed October 22, 2009)
2. ↑ Profile  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at cska.ru (accessed on October 21, 2009)  
3. ↑ Profile ( Memento of the original from October 23, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at vladimir-gym.ru (Russian; accessed October 21, 2009) 
4. ↑ Profile at peoples.ru (Russian; accessed October 21, 2009)
5. ↑ ^{a b} Straubenhardter Turner in shock - Ryazanov dead at pz-news.de, October 21, 2009 (accessed on February 10, 2018)