Armenian Sportsmen by Armine Safaryan https://padlet.com/arminsafaryan/wcifo6bcbtz2 A wide array of sports are played in Armenia. Popular Sports in Armenia include football, basketball, volleyball and hockey. Our country sends athletes to the Olympics in boxing, wrestling, weightlifting, judo, gymnastics, diving, swimming and shooting. Armenia's mountainous terrain provides great opportunities for the practice of sports like skiing and rock climbing. Being a landlocked country, water sports can only be practiced on lakes, notably Lake Sevan. Armenia has been very successful at chess, weightlifting, and wrestling at the international level. Armenia is also an active member of the international sports community, with full membership in the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA), Federation of International Bandy (FIB), and International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF). en-us 2018-02-09 21:20:24 UTC 2026-01-12 00:48:19 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-uploads.storage.googleapis.com/109645049/e12af47653bd9cccc46195687c32f875/sport_graphics_running_906109.gif Artur Abraham https://padlet.com/arminsafaryan/wcifo6bcbtz2/wish/167117741 Artur Abraham is an Armenian-german professional boxer. He is a former two-weight world champion, having held the IBF middleweight title from 2005 to 2009. He has gained much popularity in Germany and appears regularly in various formats on German television. On 9 April 2010, Abraham took to the dance show Let's Dance on RTL with partner Nina Uszkureit, but left after the first episode of the show in order to concentrate fully on his boxing career.
Abraham plans on opening a boxing school in Armenia following his future retirement. He will also have foreign language classes for students at the boxing school, such as English and German. "If a boxer knows no foreign language, he cannot have success internationally," Abraham noted.

                 By Iryna Aloyan]]> 2017-04-19 19:14:42 UTC https://padlet.com/arminsafaryan/wcifo6bcbtz2/wish/167117741 Henrikh Mkhitaryan saro_saro_2004 https://padlet.com/arminsafaryan/wcifo6bcbtz2/wish/167268614 Henrikh Mkhitaryan is an Armenian professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for English club Manchester United, as well as captaining the Armenia national team. Mkhitaryan is Armenia's all-time top goalscorer, scoring 20 goals in 62 international matches since his debut in January 2007, including their first hat-trick. His previous clubs include Pyunik, where he came through the youth system, Metalurh Donetsk, Shakhtar Donetsk and Borussia Dortmund.                      ]]> 2017-04-20 14:15:01 UTC https://padlet.com/arminsafaryan/wcifo6bcbtz2/wish/167268614 Vic Darchinyan narek_harutyunyan88 https://padlet.com/arminsafaryan/wcifo6bcbtz2/wish/167704758 Vakhtang "Vic" Darchinyan is an Armenian Australian professional boxer. He is a former two-weight world champion, having held the IBF flyweight title from 2004 to 2007; the IBF super flyweight title from 2008 to 2009; and the unified WBA (Super), WBC, and lineal super flyweight titles from 2008 to 2010. Additionally, he has held a record four IBO titles in three weight classes from 2005 to 2011. A southpaw boxer with a unique fighting style, Darchinyan became the first ethnic Armenian to win a world title when he knocked out then-undefeated IBF flyweight champion Irene Pacheco in 2004.]]> 2017-04-23 19:32:51 UTC https://padlet.com/arminsafaryan/wcifo6bcbtz2/wish/167704758 The story of Henrikh Mkhitaryan... arminsafaryan https://padlet.com/arminsafaryan/wcifo6bcbtz2/wish/170010713 2017-05-04 17:44:09 UTC https://padlet.com/arminsafaryan/wcifo6bcbtz2/wish/170010713 Levon Aronian https://padlet.com/arminsafaryan/wcifo6bcbtz2/wish/182387510 Levon Aronian is a chess grandmaster and one of the highest-ranked players to ever play the game. As the top-ranked player on the team, he led several Armenian national teams to Chess Olympiad championships - three times into winning gold.
CNN and the BBC reported that Aronian is considered the David Beckham of chess in Armenia.]]> 2017-08-23 17:08:36 UTC https://padlet.com/arminsafaryan/wcifo6bcbtz2/wish/182387510 Artur Aleksanyan https://padlet.com/arminsafaryan/wcifo6bcbtz2/wish/230242678 Artur Aleksanyan is an Armenian Greco-Roman wrestler. He is an Olympic Champion (2016) and bronze medalist (2012), a three-time World Champion (2014, 2015, 2017), and a three-time European Champion (2012, 2013, 2014). Aleksanyan is the second Olympic gold medalist of Armenia since regaining independence in 1991 and is the most decorated Olympian of independent Armenia as well. He has been nicknamed the "Polar Bear" and is one of the most renowned Armenian athletes of the 21st century.
Aleksanyan was born on 21 October 1991 in Gyumri . He started Greco-Roman Wrestling in 2000 under the guidance of his father Gevorg Aleksanyan, an honored coach of Armenia. He competed in several junior tournaments and became a Junior World Champion at 84 kg in 2010. In 2011, Aleksanyan moved up a weight class to 96 kg and began competing as a senior.
 By Irina Aloyan]]> 2018-02-10 05:41:07 UTC https://padlet.com/arminsafaryan/wcifo6bcbtz2/wish/230242678 Nazik Avdalyan https://padlet.com/arminsafaryan/wcifo6bcbtz2/wish/230242874 Avdalyan won a gold medal at the 2009 World Weightlifting  Championship. Avdalyan is the first ever weightlifter from the independent Republic of Armenia to win a gold medal at the World Weightlifting and the first ever woman from Armenia to win a world championship in any sport.
Armenian Sport Journalists Federation conducted an annual survey among 52 Armenian sport journalists who voted Nazik Avdalyan the best Armenian sportswoman of 2009. Avdalyan won by a record 520 points.
On April 26, 2010, Avdalyan got in a car crash on Yerevan-Gyumri motorway and was taken to Gyumri hospital. She had received multiple bone fractures and a spine injury. Advalyan was transferred to Yerevan's Erebuni medical centre for additional examination and underwent lumbar surgery on April 28. After the rehabilitation process, Avdalyan said she will be able to compete in sports again in 2013. After seven years of absence Avdalyan made a huge comeback and won a gold medal at the 2016 World  Weightlifting  Championship
By Irina Aloyan

]]> 2018-02-10 05:50:19 UTC https://padlet.com/arminsafaryan/wcifo6bcbtz2/wish/230242874 David Nalbandian https://padlet.com/arminsafaryan/wcifo6bcbtz2/wish/230243116 David Pablo Nalbandian an Argentine retired professional tennisplayer and former world No. 3. He was runner-up at the 2002 Wimbledon  Championships and the winner of the Tennis Masters Cup in 2005. He has also won two Masters 1000 events. Nalbandian is the only Argentine player in history who ever reached the semi-finals or better at all four Grand Slam tournaments and reached the men's singles final at Wimbledon.
By Irina Aloyan]]> 2018-02-10 06:00:39 UTC https://padlet.com/arminsafaryan/wcifo6bcbtz2/wish/230243116 Arsen Julfalakyan https://padlet.com/arminsafaryan/wcifo6bcbtz2/wish/230243340 Arsen Julfalakyan is an Armenian Greco-Roman wrestler. He is an Olympic silver medalist, World and European Champion, and three-time Olympian.
In the years 2001, 2003, and 2004, Julfalakyan won the Junior Armenian Championship, and won the Cadet European Championships in 2003 and 2004 and the Junior World Championships in 2007.
Arsen, age 21, competed at the 2008 Summer Olympics. He was eliminated in his second match, coming in tenth place.
Julfalakyan was a member of the Armenian Greco-Roman wrestling team at the 2008 Wrestling World Cup.The Armenian team came in third place. Julfalakyan personally won a bronze medal.
Julfalakyan won the gold medal at the 2009 European Wrestling Championships in Vilnius and the silver medal in the 2010 World  Wrestling Championships in Moscow.
Julfalakyan was a member of the Armenian Greco-Roman wrestling team at the 2010 Wrestling World Cup. The Armenian team came in third place. Julfalakyan personally won a gold medal.  
By Irina Aloyan
]]> 2018-02-10 06:10:39 UTC https://padlet.com/arminsafaryan/wcifo6bcbtz2/wish/230243340 Armen Nazaryan ghazaryan_mary https://padlet.com/arminsafaryan/wcifo6bcbtz2/wish/230279170 In 1993, Nazaryan became a Espoir World Wrestling Champion and won a silver medal at the senior 1993 word wrestling championships This marked the debut of Armenia in the world wrestling championship Nazaryan had won the first ever medal for the independent Republic of Armenia at the World Wrestling Championships.
The following year, Nazaryan won a gold medal at the 1994 European Wrestling Championships, as both a senior and a espoir. Nazaryan became the first European Wrestling Champion from independent Armenia in the country's debut in theeuropean wrestling championship. Turning 21 in the coming year, Nazaryan would soon become no longer eligible to compete in younger tournaments and competed only as a senior from then on.
Nazaryan repeated both the European Wrestling Championships gold medal and World Wrestling Championships silver medal in 1995, the former making him only the second European Wrestling Champion from Armenia. Because of his international success, Nazaryan was eligible to compete at the 1996 Summer Olympics.

]]> 2018-02-10 15:30:12 UTC https://padlet.com/arminsafaryan/wcifo6bcbtz2/wish/230279170 Oksen Mirzoyan ghazaryan_mary https://padlet.com/arminsafaryan/wcifo6bcbtz2/wish/230279901 He was born in the village of  Angeghakot Sisian Oblast Armenian SSR. In 1965, his family moved to the village Baghramyan, Echmiadzin region. In 1977, he began weight training under the guidance of Ashot Vilasyana. In the following year, he was able to perform with the normal masters of sports of the USSR.In 1981, Mirzoyan became a member of the USSR national weightlifting team. Mirzoyan became a European and World Champion in 1983 by winning gold medals at the 1983 Word  Championships and 1983 European Weightlifting Championships, both in Moscow. In the course of both the competitions, Mirzoyan set new world records in the snatch, clean and jerk and the total exercise, all in the bantamweight (56 kg) division. Due to the 1984 Summer Olympics boycott Mirzoyan was unable to participate that year. As the reigning World Champion, he would have been the favorite to win the Olympic gold medal.
Mirzoyan had begun to pass his prime. Over the next few years he had started coming behind Bulgarian rivals Mitko Grablev and Neno Terziyski in competitions. In early 1988, Terziyski failed a doping test, resulting in a ban from weightlifting. At the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul Mirzoyan came in second place, behind the original first-place winner Grablev. However, Grablev also tested positive for doping and was disqualified. Thus, the title of Olympic Champion and the Olympic gold medal went on to Oksen Mirzoyan.

]]> 2018-02-10 15:38:48 UTC https://padlet.com/arminsafaryan/wcifo6bcbtz2/wish/230279901 Hripsime Khurshudyan alisa_avetisyan_03 https://padlet.com/arminsafaryan/wcifo6bcbtz2/wish/230538613 Hripsime was born in the village Kasakh in the Nairi region of Armenian SSR.  She has been training in weightlifting since she was under the honored coach of Armenia, Sarmen Yesayan. Khurshudyan won a silver medal at the 2006 European Weightlifting Championships. She became the first woman weightlifter from the independent Republic of Armenia to win a medal at the European Weightlifting Championships. The following year, she and Meline Daluzyan became the first Armenian female weightlifters to become European Champions at the 2007 European Weightlifting Championships. Khurshudyan also became a Junior World Champion in 2007.  ]]> 2018-02-12 11:49:13 UTC https://padlet.com/arminsafaryan/wcifo6bcbtz2/wish/230538613 Hrant Shahinya https://padlet.com/arminsafaryan/wcifo6bcbtz2/wish/233965026
Hrant Shahinyan began studying gymnastics under Harutyun Gargaloyana after moving to Yerevan. In 1939, he became the undisputed champion of the USSR among juniors.


As a member of the Soviet Union national team, Shahinyan competed at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki.


Shahinyan had qualified for every event. The Soviet team won the Team All-Around gold medal. Afterwards Shahinyan competed in the Individual All-Around, where he won the silver medal, coming in second to Viktor Chukarin, who would not only prove to be Shahinyan's rival, but the most decorated Olympian of the 1952 Olympics. Shahinyan was unable to best Chukarin in the pommel horse either. He tied in second with stablemate Yevgeny Korolkov, resulting in two silver medalists. Shahinyan came in fourth place in the parallel bars. When it came time for the still rings, Shahinyan scored higher than Chukarin and the rest of the participants to win the gold medal of the event and became the Olympic Champion in rings.[3][4]


Two years later at the 1954 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships, Shahinyan became a World Champion in the pommel horse by winning the gold medal of the event and the Soviet team won the gold medal in the Team All-Around once again. Shahinyan also won a bronze medal in the Individual All-Around.


In 1958, Shahinyan founded the Youth Gymnastic Olympic Sports School in the Armenian capital Yerevan, and became the director of the sports school. In 1975, Shahinyan arrived in Damascus to manage the Syrian gymnastics national team for almost 5 years until 1980. Later, he returned to Armenia and lived there until his death in 1996
by Narine
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