Yevhen Yudenkov
Ukrainian gymnast (born 1993)
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Yevhen Viktorovych Yudenkov (Ukrainian: Євген Вікторович Юденков; born 10 April 1993)[1] is a Ukrainian artistic gymnast. He represented Ukraine at the 2020 Summer Olympics and won a gold medal in the team event at the 2020 European Championships.
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Yudenkov in 2021 | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Full name | Yevhen Viktorovych Yudenkov | |||||||||||||||||
Alternative name | Yevgen Yudenkov | |||||||||||||||||
| Nickname | Zhenya | |||||||||||||||||
| Born | 10 April 1993 Donetsk, Ukraine | |||||||||||||||||
| Height | 172 cm (5 ft 8 in) | |||||||||||||||||
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| Discipline | Men's artistic gymnastics | |||||||||||||||||
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Head coach | Andriy Khrustaliov | |||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Gymnastics career
At the 2016 Ljubljana World Challenge Cup, Yudenkov won silver medals on both the still rings and the parallel bars.[2] He began the 2017 season with a bronze medal on the still rings at the Baku World Cup.[3] He advanced to the all-around final at the 2017 European Championships and finished 15th.[4] He then won a silver medal with the Ukrainian team at the 2017 Summer Universiade. Individually, he finished sixth in the all-around final and eighth in the parallel bars final.[5] He then won a bronze medal on the still rings at the Szombathely World Challenge Cup.[6]
Yudenkov missed the 2018 European Championships, and the majority of the 2018 season, due to shoulder surgery.[7][8] He competed in the all-around final at the 2019 European Championships and finished 19th.[9] At the 2019 World Championships, he helped Ukraine finish eighth in the team final and qualify for the 2020 Summer Olympics.[8]
Yudenkov became a European champion in the team competition at the 2020 European Championships in Mersin, Turkey.[10] Additionally, he placed fifth in the pommel horse and still rings finals.[11] At the 2020 Szombathely World Challenge Cup, he won bronze medals on the still rings and parallel bars.[12]
Yudenkov was selected to represent Ukraine at the 2020 Summer Olympics alongside Illia Kovtun, Igor Radivilov, and Petro Pakhnyuk,[13] and they finished seventh in the team final.[14]
Yudenkov left Ukraine in April 2022 due to the Russian invasion and began training in Vélizy-Villacoublay, France.[15]
