Yuri Ryazanov
Yuri Sergeyevich Ryazanov (Russian Юрий Сергеевич Рязанов; born March 21, 1987 in Vladimir, † October 20, 2009 near Worscha at Sobinka ) was a Russian gymnast, who was considered one of the greatest talents turn his country. At a height of 1.70 meters his competition weight was 69 kilograms.
Life
Yuri Ryazanov began in 1992 under the former Soviet champion Igor Kalabuschkin with the gymnastics. The first success was at the Junior European Championships in 2005 granted him in his home country, where he won two medals. Just one year later Ryazanov was appointed to the Russian national team of seniors and entered international competition at Shanghai in appearance, where he reached the final each on pommel horse and the rings and took a fifth and eighth place. Also in 2006, he took part in the first World Championships in Aarhus, Denmark, where he qualified for the all-around finals and took a 16th place and won the silver medal with the team. On the floor, pommel horse, parallel bars, high bar and rings he missed one finals.
At the European Championships 2007 in Amsterdam Ryazanov won bronze ( 89.000 points) in the all-around behind the Russian European champion Maxim Dewjatkowski ( 90 250 ) and the German Hambüchen ( 89 675 ) his first individual medal at international senior championships. He also started on the floor, pommel horse, parallel bars, high bar and rings, but did not reach an apparatus final. In the following World Championships in Stuttgart Ryazanov did not get beyond a 13th place in the all-around finals and reached again no apparatus finals.
A year later he won the European Championships in Lausanne in eighth position on the rings, after a final court narrowly missed in previous competitions and was included in the squad for the Olympic Games. In Beijing, Ryazanov again presented the strongest in the all around, where he but a 17th place in qualifying not came out and reached no apparatus finals. With the Russian Mr. squad as the reigning European champion, he missed the victory of China a medal and finished third in the team event together with Maxim Dewjatowski, Anton Golotsutskov, Sergei Chorochordin, Nikolai Kryukov and Alexander Pluschnikow a sixth place. At the World Cup in Moscow the same year he won the bronze medal on the parallel bars.
In the 2009 season, Ryazanov presented stronger than ever. At the European Championships in late March in Milan, the athletes won bronze again after 2007 ( 88,200 points) in the all-around behind the winner Hambüchen ( 89 175 ) and the British Daniel Keatings ( 88 275 ). In the following World Championships in mid-October Ryazanov benefited from an injury-related cancellation Hambüchen and won with 88,400 points bronze in the all around behind Japanese Kohei Uchimura World Champion ( 91,500 points) and Keating ( 88 925 ). It was the first all-around medal by a Russian gymnast in world championships since the World Championship victory Nikolaj Krjukows in 1999.
Yuri Ryazanov was a member of CSKA Moscow and was last trained by Yevgeny Nikolko and its discoverer Igor Kalabuschkin. He studied at the Sports University in his native city. 2009 started Ryazanov in the Bundesliga twice for Fabian Hambüchen club KTV Straubenhardt. Although he spoke little English, he was regarded by the German coaches as communicative.
Five days after the success at the World Championships in London Ryazanov came at the age of 22 years in a car accident near his home town of Vladimir killed when his car crashed on a highway head-on with an oncoming car.