Biography of athlete David Belyavsky

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David Belyavsky is a Russian gymnast who competed in the Olympics. He managed to get a silver medal in 2016 in the team championship. The athlete also received a bronze medal for exercises on uneven bars. Won bronze and uneven bars at the European Championships. In 2015, he won the European Games in Baku.

Biography of David Belyavsky

David was born in the city of Votkinsk, Udmurtia, on February 23, 1992. From childhood, the boy grew up as a very active child, he was restless. In addition, it was unusually flexible. He was able to do splits, bridges and other simple exercises with great ease.

David was brought up by his grandmother, Lyudmila Viktorovna. She also went in for sports at one time, maybe the love for this lifestyle was passed on to her grandson through the genes. If ordinary grandmothers watch various TV shows on TV, then David's grandmother was fond of only sports channels, mainly gymnastics. And he, along with her, watched the gymnasts with great pleasure. They are for him.were an example, almost wizards. David was a big fan of Alexei Nemov.

Early years

While studying in the second grade, David Belyavsky signed up for gymnastics. But he attended the school section for about a month. He didn't leave her because he wasn't interested in it. Simply, according to his teacher, he knew everything that they could teach him in the section. He advised the boy to send to a sports school. Grandmother listened to the advice and took David to the Votkinsk sports youth school "Znamya". There, Sergei Zakirov became his coach. After that, David began to look at gymnastics not as entertainment, but as a profession. For days on end, he disappeared in training, from early morning until late at night. He was on a par with his classmates, but the coach wanted to find the best among his students.

David Belyavsky had the best qualities for an athlete: a great desire to achieve his goals, strive for the best results.

Moving to Yekaterinburg

When the boy was about twelve years old, he was noticed by the famous coach Peter Kitaysky from the city of Yekaterinburg. And when he was fourteen, he moved there and entered the school of the Olympic reserve. That was the impetus for great victories. It was very difficult for David to move, he really missed his home and friends, but he understood that this was necessary for career growth. Peter Kitaisky recalls that at first the boy was very shy, even too modest.

Children who studied with him tried to helpDavid to adapt to local conditions so that he can more easily endure separation from home. But since Belyavsky really liked what he was doing, and there were some successes in this, this helped him. He almost always set himself the goal of winning, and mostly succeeded.

In 2008, he declared himself, became a silver medalist in artistic gymnastics in Switzerland, this was when he was part of the Russian junior team. The team consisted of Garibov Emin, Belyavsky David, Pakhomenko Igor, Matvey Petrov and Ignatenkov Kirill, they scored 263 points. They also got a good result for the crossbar, for the horse, for the rings, bars and vault. In the vault, David also won a silver medal.

In 2009, David became a four-time champion at the Youth Olympic Festival in Tampere, Finland. He won the first place in the all-around in floor exercises and on the rings.

When there were competitions in artistic gymnastics in Japan, David Belyavsky won gold for the jump, silver for the horizontal bar and bronze for the pommel horse. But in the all-around, he made several mistakes in the exercises on the rings, and therefore took fourth place.

Russian Championship

In the vault, he received silver at the Russian Championship, after which he entered the Russian team at the European Championship in Birmingham. But due to natural phenomena, they were unable to fly out and take part in the competition.

At the Cup of Russia, which was held inthe city of Chelyabinsk, David got into the final on five shells. When there was an all-around final, he was in the lead, but then became the fourth, as he fell on a horse because he put his hand incorrectly. But he managed to get gold in floor exercises, overtaking the best gymnast in Europe Anton Golotsutskov, but becoming the second in the vault. Thus, the gymnast David Belyavsky joined the team for the World Championships, where Russia took sixth place.

Other victories

When the London Olympics were held in 2009, David took sixth place in the team championship, fifth in the overall championship, and seventh on horseback. This merit was received by the athlete when he was part of the team.

As part of the Russian national team, gymnast Belyavsky received silver in the Olympics, which was held in Rio de Janeiro, for team all-around, and bronze for exercises on uneven bars. In addition, the athlete has many more awards in his piggy bank. He was also awarded a Certificate of Merit from the President of the Russian Federation for the achievements in sports at the XXVII World Summer Universiade in Kazan in 2013.