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| Full name | Daria Sergeyevna Nagornaya | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Born | (1998-07-08)8 July 1998 (age 27) Novocheboksarsk, Russia | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 156 cm (5 ft 1 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Spouse | [3] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Gymnastics career | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sport | Women's artistic gymnastics | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Country represented |  Russia(2010–2020) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Club | Sambo 70 / Central Army Sports Club (CSKA)[1] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Head coach | Tatiana Fomkina[1][2] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Retired | 17 February 2021 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Daria Sergeyevna Nagornaya (néeSpiridonovaRussian:Дарья Сергеевна Нагорнаяnée Спиридонова; born 8 July 1998) is a Russian formerartistic gymnast. Primarily an uneven bars specialist, she is the2015 World Champion, the2015 European Champion, the2014 World bronze medalist, and a four-timeRussian national (2014–17) champion on the apparatus. She represented Russia at the2016 Summer Olympics, winning a silver medal in theteam competition. She was also a member of the gold-medal-winning team at the2016 European Championships, the silver-medal-winning teams at the2018 and2019 World Championships, and the bronze-medal-winning teams at the2014 World and2014 European championships.
Spiridonova made her international debut at the 2012 Pre-Olympic Youth Cup in Bergisch-Gladbach, Germany, where she won the all-around gold medal.
In 2013 she won gold with her team and silver on uneven bars at theRussian Junior Championships. She competed at the Olympic Hopes, winning gold with her team and on uneven bars, bronze in the all-around, and placing fifth on vault.[4] She went on to compete at the KSI Cup, winning gold medals with her team and in the all-around.[5]
Spiridonova's senior debut came at the2014 Cottbus World Cup, but she did not make any event finals. She then competed at theRussian Championships in April, winning gold on uneven bars, silver with her team and on balance beam, and placing fifth in the all-around, and seventh on floor exercise.[6]
At the2014 European Championships, Spiridonova competed on uneven bars, balance beam, and floor exercise. She scored 14.900 on uneven bars which qualified her to the event finals in fourth place. She also scored a 14.058 on balance beam and 11.900 on floor exercise after a fall. In the team final, Spiridonova contributed scores of 15.066 on uneven bars, 12.300 on balance beam and 13.100 on floor exercise towards the Russian team's bronze medal finish.
Individually, she won the bronze medal in the uneven bars final with a score of 15.283. In October she placed first ahead ofLarisa Iordache at the Arthur Gander Memorial, her first international win at the senior level. Days later, she partnered up with male Russian gymnastNikita Ignatyev to win her second international title at theSwiss Cup. At the Massila Master, she claimed the first all-around crown of her career.
Spiridonova competed at the 2015 Russian Championships in Penza, Russia. She won silver with her team, as well as placing fourth in the all around, winning gold on the uneven bars, and silver on the balance beam. Due to her strong performance, Spiridonova was selected to compete at the2015 European Championships in Montpellier, France. She placed thirteenth in the all around final after complications on balance beam and floor exercise. Despite this she went on to win gold on the uneven bars, beating out the reigning European uneven bars championBecky Downie.
At the2015 World Championships Spiridonova won gold on uneven bars in an unprecedented four way tie alongside compatriotViktoria Komova, AmericanMadison Kocian, andFan Yilin of China.[7]
Spiridonova competed at theRussian National Championships where she won a silver medal with her team and tied for gold on the uneven bars withDaria Skrypnik. At the conclusion of the National Championships, Spiridonova, along withAliya Mustafina,Angelina Melnikova,Seda Tutkhalyan, andKsenia Afanasyeva, was selected to compete for Russia at the2016 European Championships. She helped Russia qualify to the team final in second place and finished in fourth on the uneven bars with a score of 14.733. Although she originally did not qualify to the final due to two-per-country limitations, she did replace teammate Melnikova in the uneven bars final because of her strength on the event. In the team final she contributed a score of 15.333 on uneven bars, helping Russia win the gold medal with an overall score of 175.212. She won the silver medal on the uneven bars, losing to theBecky Downie.
At the 2016 Russian Cup, Spridonova finished fourth with her team and won bronze on the uneven bars. At the conclusion of the Russian Cup, Spiridonova, along with Mustafina, Tutkhalyan, Melnikova, andMaria Paseka, was selected to representRussia at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. In the midst of theTeam Russia Doping Scandal, both the men's and women's gymnastics teams were cleared to compete days before the Games began.
At the2016 Olympic Games Spiridonova helped Russia qualify to the team final in third place. She also qualified to the uneven bars final in fourth place. In the team final she contributed a score of 15.100 on uneven bars, helping Russia win the silver medal with an overall score of 176.688. In the uneven bars final she fell on one of her transition skills and finished in eighth place.
On 17 October Russia announced the team to compete at the2018 World Championships and Spirdonova was chosen as the alternate.[8] She received a silver medal with the team behind the USA and ahead of China. On 18 December Spiridonova married fellow Russian gymnastNikita Nagornyy.[9]
Spiridonova was out for the majority of the season due to a comminuted ankle fracture she sustained in late 2018.[10] In August she returned to competition at theRussian Cup where she only competed on uneven bars and balance beam.[11] She won gold on uneven bars, finishing ahead of2019 Junior World Uneven Bars ChampionVladislava Urazova and2019 European Games Uneven Bar ChampionAngelina Melnikova.[12] Shortly after the conclusion of the Russian Cup Spiridonova was named to the nominative team for the2019 World Championships alongside Melnikova,Lilia Akhaimova,Angelina Simakova (later replaced byMaria Paseka),[13]Anastasia Agafonova, andAleksandra Shchekoldina.[14]
Duringqualifications at the World Championships she competed on the uneven bars and helped Russia qualify to the team final in third place behind the United States and China. Individually she qualified to the uneven bars final in second place behindreigning World ChampionNina Derwael of Belgium. Despite Valentina Rodionenko's, the head coach of the Russian Women's gymnastics team, low expectations for the team,[15] they won the silver medal in theteam final, with Spiridonova contributing the second highest uneven bars score of the day (behindBecky Downie of Great Britain).[16] During the uneven bars final Spiridonova finished in sixth place.
In late January Spiridonova was listed on a nominative roster that was released for theMelbourne World Cup, scheduled to take place on 20 February. While there she placed third on uneven bars behindDiana Varinska of Ukraine andGeorgia Godwin of Australia. She later competed at theBaku World Cup; during qualifications she finished fourth on uneven bars and therefore qualified to the event finals.[17] However event finals were canceled due to the2020 coronavirus outbreak in Azerbaijan.[18]
On 17 February 2021 Spiridonova announced on herInstagram page that she retired from gymnastics.[19]
On December 18, 2018, she married Olympic gymnastics championNikita Nagorny. On June 21, 2023, the couple welcomed their first child, a son named Mark.[21]
| Year | Event | Team | AA | VT | UB | BB | FX |
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| 2011 | National Championships (CMS) |  | | 5 | |||
| 2012 | Pre-Olympic Youth Cup |  | |||||
| 2013 | National Championships (MS) |  | |||||
| Olympic Hopes | | 5 | | ||||
| KSI Cup | | |
| Year | Event | Team | AA | VT | UB | BB | FX |
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| 2014 | Cottbus World Cup | ||||||
| National Championships | | 5 | | | 7 | ||
| European Championships | | | |||||
| Russian Cup | | | | | |||
| World Championships | | | |||||
| Arthur Gander Memorial | | ||||||
| Swiss Cup | | ||||||
| Massilia Cup (Master Massilia) | | | | ||||
| 2015 | National Championships | | 4 | | | ||
| European Championships | 13 | | |||||
| Rusudan Sikharulidze tournament | | ||||||
| Russian Cup | | | | | 6 | ||
| World Championships | 4 | | |||||
| Toyota International Cup | | 5 | |||||
| 2016 | DTB Pokal Team Challenge Cup | | |||||
| National Championships | | 7 | | 5 | |||
| European Championships | | | |||||
| Russian Cup | 4 | | |||||
| Olympic Games | | 8 | |||||
| Elite Gym Massilia (Master) | | 6 | 5 | ||||
| 2017 | Reykjavik International Games | | |||||
| National Championships | | 7 | | 8 | |||
| DTB Pokal Team Challenge Cup | | ||||||
| City of Jesolo Trophy | | 18 | 7 | ||||
| Universiade | | 8 | | 8 | |||
| 2018 | National Championships | | 11 | ||||
| Russian Cup | 14 | 6 | |||||
| World Championships | [a] | ||||||
| Cottbus World Cup | 4 | ||||||
| Toyota International | | ||||||
| 2019 | Russian Cup | | 8 | ||||
| World Championships | | 6 | |||||
| 2020 | Melbourne World Cup | | |||||
| Baku World Cup | 4 |
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