Nikita Nagornyy, David Belyavskiy, Denis Ablyazin and Artur Dalaloyan won the gold medal in the men's artistic team all-around event at Tokyo 2020.

This was the first time Russian gymnasts have won the event since Atlanta 1996.

The ROC team won by the smallest of margins, finishing ahead of Japan by 0.103 points.

The winner of the event is determined by a combined score on six different gymnastics apparatus: floor, pommel horse, rings, vault, parallel bars and the horizontal bar.

Nagornyy was born in Rostov-on-Don in 1997 and married fellow gymnast, Daria Spiridonova, in 2018.

He took up gymnastics when he was six, under the encouragement of his grandmother.

The 24-year-old competed at the 2014 Youth Olympic Games in Nanjing and established himself as a promising athlete, winning three gold medals in the pommel horse, rings and the parallel bars, in addition to a silver and bronze in the all-around and the vault respectively.

Nikita Nagornyy's performance on the horizontal bar helped the ROC team to an overall score of 262.500 in the men's artistic team all-around event at Tokyo 2020, securing them the gold medal ©Getty Images
Nikita Nagornyy's performance on the horizontal bar helped the ROC team to an overall score of 262.500 in the men's artistic team all-around event at Tokyo 2020, securing them the gold medal ©Getty Images

Across the Olympic Games, World Championships and European Championships, Nagornyy has won 12 gold medals, four silvers and two bronzes, cementing his status as one of the world's best gymnasts.

Nagornyy is credited as the first gymnast to complete the triple back pike.

It is a move with a difficulty score of 0.9 and is only the second move with as high a difficulty score after The Miyachi.

Belyavskiy is an experienced gymnast born in 1992 in Votkinsk.

At Rio 2016, he won a silver and a bronze medal, before clinching the elusive gold this summer.

Across eight World Championship appearances, Belyavskiy has one gold, two silvers and one bronze.

Belyavskiy can put his gymnastics career down to the influence of his grandmother after she took him to a school where gymnastics and fitness were taught.

David Belyavskiy parallel bars routine achieved a score of 15.333 in the men's artistic team all-around final at Tokyo 2020 ©Getty Images
David Belyavskiy parallel bars routine achieved a score of 15.333 in the men's artistic team all-around final at Tokyo 2020 ©Getty Images

His teacher organised a fitness competition that he won and sent him to a gymnastics club.

From there, he was determined to become an Olympic champion.

For his performances at Rio 2016, Belyavskiy received the Order for Merits to the Fatherland.

He also holds the title of Honoured Master of Sport in the Russian Federation and was named Most Elegant Gymnast at the 2016 European Championships.

In 2017, the 29-year-old opened a gym in Yekaterinburg in Russia aimed at supporting young gymnasts.

The third member of the team, Ablyazin, was born in Penza and, prior to Tokyo 2020, had won five Olympic medals.

Denis Ablyazin performed routines on the floor, rings, and vault in the men's artistic team all-around event at Tokyo 2020 ©Getty Images
Denis Ablyazin performed routines on the floor, rings, and vault in the men's artistic team all-around event at Tokyo 2020 ©Getty Images

At London 2012, he won a silver in the vault and a bronze in the floor.

He followed that up with a bronze in the parallel bars and silver in the team event at Rio 2016.

When he was younger, Ablyazin was a keen ice hockey player and wanted to become a professional.

However, he tried multiple sports as a child and was set on gymnastics after winning a gold medal at a youth version of Spartakiad, a former international event sponsored by the Soviet Union.

In 2016, Ablyazin married former gymnast and two-times world champion Ksenia Semyonova, before separating two years later.

Last year, he opened a shop in Penza selling gymnastics equipment.

Artur Dalaloyan performed on all the apparatus in the men's artistic team all-around event at Tokyo 2020 ©Getty Images
Artur Dalaloyan performed on all the apparatus in the men's artistic team all-around event at Tokyo 2020 ©Getty Images

Dalaloyan, the final member of the ROC's victorious Olympic team, was born in Moldova to an Armenian father and a Moldovan mother before his parents moved to Novosibirsk in Russia.

At the 2018 World Championships, he won the all-around and floor titles, a silver in the team event and vault, and a bronze in the parallel bars.

He then won silver in the all-around in the 2019 World Championships, with a gold in the team event. 

He also won another silver in the vault and a bronze in the high bar.

Prior to Toko 2020, Dalaloyan suffered an injury to his Achilles tendon but still managed to compete in all six events.

The Tiraspol-born athlete competed at the 2017 World Championships despite having a broken foot.

However, he could not fight through a torn meniscus in his knee in 2016 that ruled him out of the Olympic Games.

Just like Russian sabre fencer Sofia Pozdniakova, Dalaloyan studied Sport and Tourism at the Smolensk State Academy of Physical Education.