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Kovtun Finishes Fourth in Individual All-Around Final at 2024 Olympics

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Ukrainian gymnast Ilya Kovtun showed the fourth result in the final of the individual all-around at the 2024 Olympics. Also competing for the individual all-around medals was Oleg Vernyaev, who came in eighth.

In this discipline, athletes had to compete on six apparatuses. A total of 24 athletes qualified for the finals.

Kovtun and Verniaev: how they performed at the 2024 Olympics

The Olympic champion in the individual all-around was Japanese Oka Shinnosuke, who beat two representatives of China on the podium — Zhang Boheng and Xiao Ruoteng.

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Ilya Kovtun was 0.200 points behind Ruoteng.The Ukrainian scored 86.165 points for his performance on six apparatus. But Tokyo Olympic champion Daiki Gashimoto finished the competition in only sixth place.

The Ukrainians began their performance with exercises on the pommel horse. Verniaev received 14.833 points, and Kovtun — 14.633 points. In the exercises on the rings, both of our gymnasts showed a result of less than 14 points. In the vault, Verniaev received 14.400 points, and Kovtun — 14.266.

The most productive exercises for the Ukrainians were on the parallel bars: Kovtun finished the performance with a lead of 15.400 points and became the best gymnast in the discipline, and Verniaev showed a result 0.4 points lower than Ilya.

After four rotations, Verniaev and Kovtun were leading in the overall standings — took first and second places, respectively. However, after the performances on the horizontal bar, the Ukrainians dropped out of the virtual table of winners. Verniaev was rated for his performance on the horizontal bar at only 12.700 points. Kovtun received 13.833 points from the judges.

In the floor exercise, Kovtun showed 14.700 points, which allowed him to finish fourth with a total of 86.165 points. Oleg Vernyaev finished his performance with 13.933 points in the floor exercise and took eighth place in the all-around standings.

For both gymnasts, their performances at the Olympics are not yet over. They will also compete for medals in Paris on individual apparatus: both will perform in parallel bars.

Kovtun will also compete for medals in floor exercises, and Verniayev in pommel horse exercises. Two more of our gymnasts, Nazar Chepurnoy and Igor Radivilov, will compete in vault.

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