ARTS AND CULTURE

Artem Dolgopyat

Athlete

Artem Olegovich Dolgopyat is a Ukrainian-born Israeli artistic gymnast. Dolgopyat won the gold medal for floor exercise at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics which took place in August 2021. He is also the 2020 European Champion for floor exercise and the winner of two silver medals at the 2017 and 2019 World Championships. Following his Olympic triumph, Dolgopyat arrived back to a hero’s welcome in Israel. “This is really the warmest welcome I ever got in my life,” he said, as a large crowd cheered him at Ben Gurion Airport. “I want to cry from all the excitement, even more than the medal.” (Photo: Wikimedia / Creative Commons License)