Polish artistic gymnast

Leszek Robert Blanik (born 1 March 1977 in Wodzisław Śląski) is a Polish gymnast, World and Olympic champion in vault. He was the first to perform a handspring double front vault in piked position which now has been named after him.

Contents

• 1 Olympics
• 2 World championships
• 3 Awards
• 4 References
• 5 External links

Olympics

Blanik picked up a bronze in vault at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney.

On 18 August 2008, he won the gold medal in men's vault at the Olympics in Beijing, becoming the first Polish Olympic champion in a gymnastics event.

World championships

Blanik won a gold medal in vault at the 2007 World Championships in Stuttgart, earning him an individual berth to the 2008 Beijing Olympics. He also has two World silver medals, from 2002 in Debrecen, and 2005 in Melbourne.

Awards

For his sport achievements, Blanik received:
Knight's Cross of the Order of Polonia Res*uta (5th Cl*) in 2008.
Golden Cross of Merit in 2000.

References

External links

• Official website at the Wayback Machine (archived December 29, 2011)
• Leszek BLANIK at the International Gymnastics Federation
• Blanik (vault animation)

• 1955: :Adalbert Dickhut:(GER)
• 1957: :Yuri *ov:(URS)
• 1959: :Yuri *ov:(URS)
  1959 ::William T*sson:(SWE)
• 1961: :Giovanni Carminucci:(ITA)
• 1963: :Přemysl Krbec:(TCH)
• 1965: :Viktor Lisitsky:(URS)
• 1967: :Viktor Lisitsky:(URS)
• 1969: :Viktor Klimenko:(URS)
• 1971: :Nikolai Andrianov:(URS)
• 1973: :Nikolai Andrianov:(URS)
• 1975: :Nikolai Andrianov:(URS)
• 1977: :Jiří Tabák:(TCH)
  1977 ::Ralph Bärthel:(GDR)
• 1979: :Bohdan Makuts:(URS)
• 1981: :Bohdan Makuts:(URS)
• 1983: :Dmitry Bilozerchev:(URS)
• 1985: :Sylvio Kroll:(GDR)
• 1987: :Yuri Korolyov:(URS)
• 1989: :Valentin Mogilny:(URS)
• 1990: :Vitaly Scherbo:(URS)
• 1992: :Vitaly Scherbo:(BLR)
• 1994: :Vitaly Scherbo:(BLR)
• 1996: :Vitaly Scherbo:(BLR)
• 1998: :Ioannis Melissanidis:(GRE)
• 2000: :Ioan Silviu Suciu:(ROU)
• 2002: :Dmitry Kasperovich:(BLR)
  2002 ::Marian Drăgulescu:(ROU)
• 2004: :Marian Drăgulescu:(ROU)
• 2005: :Jevgēņijs Saproņenko:(LAT)
• 2006: :Marian Drăgulescu:(ROU)
• 2007: :Anton Golotsutskov:(RUS)
• 2008: :Leszek Blanik:(POL)
• 2009: :Thomas Bouhail:(FRA)
• 2010: :Tomi Tuuha:(FIN)
• 2011: :Thomas Bouhail:(FRA)
• 2012: :Flavius Koczi:(ROU)
• 2013: :Denis Ablyazin:(RUS)
• 2014: :Denis Ablyazin:(RUS)
• 2015: :Nikita Nagornyy:(RUS)
• 2016: :Oleg Vernyayev:(UKR)
• 2017: :Artur Dalaloyan:(RUS)
• 2018: :Artur Dalaloyan:(RUS)
• 2019: :Denis Ablyazin:(RUS)
• 2020: :Igor Radivilov:(UKR)
• 2021: :Igor Radivilov:(UKR)