Denis Ablyazin

Denis Ablyazin
Personal information
Full nameDenis Mikhailovich Ablyazin
Nickname(s)The Lord of the Rings
Born (1992-08-03) August 3, 1992
Penza, Russia
Height1.60 m (5 ft 3 in)
Gymnastics career
DisciplineMen's artistic gymnastics
Country
represented
Russia
ClubDinamo Penza
Gym"Burtases"
Head coach(es)Anatoly Zabelin
Assistant coach(es)Sergei Starkin
Medal record
Representing  Russia &  ROC
Event 1st 2nd 3rd
Olympic Games 1 4 2
World Championships 2 1 1
European Championships 8 4 2
Summer Universiade 1 2 0
Total 12 11 5
Representing  ROC
Olympic Games
2020 Tokyo Team
2020 Tokyo Vault
Representing  Russia
Olympic Games
2012 London Vault
2016 Rio de Janeiro Vault
2016 Rio de Janeiro Team
2012 London Floor Exercise
2016 Rio de Janeiro Rings
World Championships
2014 Nanning Floor Exercise
2019 Stuttgart Team
2017 Montreal Rings
2014 Nanning Rings
European Championships
2013 Moscow Vault
2014 Sofia Team
2014 Sofia Floor Exercise
2014 Sofia Rings
2014 Sofia Vault
2016 Bern Team
2019 Szczecin Rings
2019 Szczecin Vault
2012 Montpellier Team
2015 Montpellier Rings
2015 Montpellier Vault
2016 Bern Rings
2012 Montpellier Rings
2012 Montpellier Vault
Summer Universiade
2013 Kazan Team
2013 Kazan Rings
2013 Kazan Vault

Denis Mikhailovich Ablyazin (Russian: Денис Михайлович Аблязин, IPA: [dʲɪˈnʲis ɐˈblʲæzʲɪn], born 3 August 1992) is a Russian artistic gymnast. Ablyazin is Olympic Champion 2020 in Tokyo and a seven-time Olympic Games medalist. At the 2012 London Olympics he won silver in vault and bronze in floor. At the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympics, he won silver with the Russian men's team, a silver in vault and bronze in rings.

He is also three-time European vault champion (2013, 2014 and 2019), the 2014 European champion on floor and rings and the 2014 World Champion on floor.