Hrihoriy Misyutin
Ukrainian gymnast (born 1970)
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Hryhoriy Anatoliyovych Misyutin (Ukrainian: Григорій Анатолійович Місютін; born 29 December 1970) is a Ukrainian artistic gymnast, formerly representing the Soviet Union and the Unified Team. At the 1992 Summer Olympics, he won a gold medal in the team event and four individual silver medals. He is the 1991 World all-around, rings, and team champion. He is also the 1992 World horizontal bar champion, the 1993 World floor exercise champion, and the 1995 World vault champion. He helped Ukraine win the team bronze medal at the 1996 Summer Olympics.
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| Full name | Hryhoriy Anatoliyovych Misyutin | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Alternative name | Grigory Misutin | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 29 December 1970 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 166 cm (5 ft 5 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Discipline | Men's artistic gymnastics | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Country represented |  Ukraine | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Former countries represented |  Soviet Union | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Gymnastics career
At the 1991 World Championships, Misyutin helped the Soviet Union win its fourth straight World team title. He also qualified for the all-around final in second place, behind teammate Vitaly Scherbo.[1] He went on to win the all-around title ahead of Scherbo,[2] and he won another gold medal on the rings.[3] At the 1992 World Championships, he won a gold medal on the horizontal bar and a bronze medal on the rings.[4]
Misyutin won a gold medal alongside the Unified Team at the 1992 Summer Olympics.[5] He then won the silver medal in the all-around final, behind Scherbo.[6] In the floor exercise final, he tied with Yukio Iketani for the silver medal,[7] and he won the vault silver medal behind Scherbo.[8] He tied with Andreas Wecker for the silver medal on the horizontal bar.[9]
At the 1993 World Championships, Misyutin won the floor exercise title.[10] He won three gold medals at the 1994 Goodwill Games– on the floor exercise, pommel horse, and vault.[11][12] He tied with Russia's Alexei Nemov for the vault title at the 1995 World Championships.[13] There, he also won a bronze medal on the floor exercise.[14]
Misyutin won a bronze medal on the floor exercise at the 1996 World Championships, behind Vitaly Scherbo and Aleksey Voropayev.[15] He then represented Ukraine at the 1996 Summer Olympics and helped the team win the bronze medal by less than a point ahead of Belarus.[16] Individually, he advanced to the floor exercise final, but he placed last after making mistakes.[17] After the 1996 Olympics, he retired and, in 2004, moved to Saarland, Germany, to coach.[18]
