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Artur Davtyan

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Artur Davtyan
Artur Davtyan at the 2015 European Championships
Personal information
Country represented Armenia
Born (1992-08-08) 8 August 1992 (age 32)
Yerevan, Armenia
Height1.62 m (5 ft 4 in)
DisciplineMen's artistic gymnastics
Years on national team2008–present (ARM)
Head coach(es)Hakob Serobyan
Medal record
Men's artistic gymnastics
Representing  Armenia
Event 1st 2nd 3rd
Olympic Games 0 1 1
World Championships 1 0 0
European Championships 2 3 2
European Games 1 0 0
Total 4 4 3
Olympic Games
Silver medal – second place 2024 Paris Vault
Bronze medal – third place 2020 Tokyo Vault
World Championships
Gold medal – first place 2022 Liverpool Vault
European Championships
Gold medal – first place 2021 Basel Pommel Horse
Gold medal – first place 2023 Antalya Vault
Silver medal – second place 2016 Bern Vault
Silver medal – second place 2022 Munich Vault
Silver medal – second place 2024 Rimini Vault
Bronze medal – third place 2013 Moscow Vault
Bronze medal – third place 2023 Antalya Pommel Horse
European Games
Gold medal – first place 2019 Minsk Vault
FIG World Cup
Event 1st 2nd 3rd
Apparatus World Cup 8 1 2
World Challenge Cup 4 3 4
Total 12 4 6

Artur Vahrami Davtyan (Armenian: Արթուր Դավթյան, born August 8, 1992) is an Armenian gymnast. He is a member of the Armenia national team in gymnastics. Davtyan is the 2020 Olympic bronze medalist,[1] 2024 Olympic silver medalist[2] and the 2022 World Champion on vault. Additionally he is the 2019 European Games vault champion and is a six-time European Championships medalist.

Early life

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Artur Davtyan was born on August 8, 1992, in Yerevan, Armenia. In 1998, at the age of 7, he began to do gymnastics. Since 2008, he is a member of the Armenian national gymnastics team. He is the brother of fellow national team member Vahagn Davtyan.[3]

Career

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Youth

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In 2009, at the Youth Olympic Festival in Tampere, Finland, Davtyan, along with fellow Armenians Vahan Vardanyan and Arthur Tovmasyan, took 6th place in the team event among 23 teams.[4] In the individual competition, Davtyan took the same place in 6th place in the all-around, 7th place in the vault, 6th place on the parallel bars and 9th place in the exercises on the rings.[5] A year later, at the Junior European Championships in Birmingham, with a score of 15,462, Davtyan became champion in the vault. In addition, he came in 4th place in the exercises on the rings with a result of 13,975, ninth place on the uneven bars and seventh in the exercises on the pommel horse.[6]

Adult

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Davtyan debuted on adult competition in 2011, at the individual 2011 European Artistic Gymnastics Championships that were held in Berlin, where he participated in all disciplines. Championship for the Armenian sportsman emerged successful. Being the youngest member of the all-around, Davtyan took 20th place. In other disciplines, Davtyan could not overcome the qualifying threshold. Of all the exercises, his best result was 14th place in the vault.

In January 2012, Davtyan took part in an international qualifying tournament, held in London. In the vault, showing the best result of the disciplines in which he participated, Davtyan gaining 15.450 points and won second place. In the all-around, with 84.2 points, he finished 12th. According to the results of the tournament, the Armenian athlete received a ticket to the Olympic Games in 2012.[7]

In March 2012, the third phase of the Artistic Gymnastics World Cup in Doha, Davtyan, with the result of 15,725, was second in the vault, with a score of 14,575, and the fourth in the exercises on the pommel horse.[8] Davtyan was awarded the Aspire Academy Award for best young gymnasts of the Doha World Cup. He shared the award with Diana Bulimar.[9]

In the same year, the Armenian athletes once again took part in the 2012 European Men's Artistic Gymnastics Championships, held in Montpellier, where in the all-around, he finished fifth.[10][11] At the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, he was unsuccessful. Davtyan injured his leg and could not overcome the qualifying stage.[12][13]

Davtyan won bronze on Vault at the 2013 European Championships, silver on Vault in 2016,[14] and in gold on Pommel Horse in 2021.[14] He also earned bronze on Vault at the 2019 Doha World Cup,[14] gold on Vault at the 2019 European Games in Minsk,[15] and, in 2017, silver on Vault and bronze on Pommel Horse at the 2017 Doha World Cup.[14] In 2015, he earned three medals at the 2015 Doha World Challenge Cup: gold on Vault, silver on Rings, and bronze on Pommel Horse.[14]

Davtyan earned the bronze medal in the vault at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, both his first individual Olympic medal and the first Olympic medal for Armenia in artistic gymnastics. Davtyan's medal was also the first for Armenia at the 2020 Olympics.[16]

At the 2021 Cairo World Cup in Cairo, Davtyan performed a new pommel horse element, which was officially named the Davtyan after him.[17]

Davtyan won silver on vault at the 2024 Summer Olympics, the first medal for Armenia at the 2024 Olympics.[18]

Competitive history

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Year Event Team AA FX PH SR VT PB HB
Junior
2009 European Youth Olympic Festival 6 6 5 8 6
2010
European Championships 19 3rd place, bronze medalist(s) 7 1st place, gold medalist(s)
Senior
2011
European Championships 20
World Championships 95
2012 Olympic test event 36 6
Doha Challenge Cup 2nd place, silver medalist(s)
Olympic Games 36
2013 Doha Challenge Cup 3rd place, bronze medalist(s)
European Championships 8 3rd place, bronze medalist(s)
2014 Doha Challenge Cup 1st place, gold medalist(s)
European Championships 35
World Championships 44
2015 Doha Challenge Cup 3rd place, bronze medalist(s) 2nd place, silver medalist(s) 1st place, gold medalist(s)
European Championships 4 4
World Championships 32
2016 Doha Challenge Cup 4
Olympic test event 13
European Championships 2nd place, silver medalist(s)
Olympic Games R3
2017 Doha World Cup 4 3rd place, bronze medalist(s) 2nd place, silver medalist(s) 8
European Championships 6 5
Summer Universiade 5 4 7
Paris Challenge Cup 8 6
World Championships 13
2018
European Championships R1
World Championships 32 9 7
2019 Doha World Cup 3rd place, bronze medalist(s)
European Championships 8
European Games 5 6 1st place, gold medalist(s)
World Championships 37
2021
European Championships 1st place, gold medalist(s) 6
Olympic Games 3rd place, bronze medalist(s)
2022 Cottbus World Cup 1st place, gold medalist(s)
Doha World Cup 1st place, gold medalist(s)
Cairo World Cup 7 1st place, gold medalist(s) 6
European Championships 6 2nd place, silver medalist(s)
World Championships 1st place, gold medalist(s)
2023 Cottbus World Cup 1st place, gold medalist(s)
Doha World Cup 1st place, gold medalist(s)
Cairo World Cup 7 1st place, gold medalist(s)
European Championships 4 3rd place, bronze medalist(s) 1st place, gold medalist(s)
Varna Challenge Cup 6 3rd place, bronze medalist(s) 3rd place, bronze medalist(s) 1st place, gold medalist(s) 5
Osijek Challenge Cup 2nd place, silver medalist(s) 1st place, gold medalist(s) 8
World Championships WD 6
2024 Cairo World Cup 1st place, gold medalist(s)
Cottbus World Cup 1st place, gold medalist(s)
European Championships 2nd place, silver medalist(s)
Olympic Games 2nd place, silver medalist(s)

References

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  1. ^ Արթուր Դավթյանը՝ Օլիմպիական խաղերի բրոնզե մեդալակիր (in Armenian). www.escs.am/am. Archived from the original on 3 August 2021. Retrieved 2 August 2021.
  2. ^ "Մարմնամարզիկ Արթուր Դավթյանը՝ Օլիմպիական խաղերի փոխչեմպիոն". Hetq. Retrieved 4 August 2024.
  3. ^ "The Doha decider: inside a doubly significant weekend in Artistic Gymnastics". www.gymnastics.sport. Retrieved 2024-08-07.
  4. ^ Две медали на Олимпийском фестивале (in Russian). www.golos.am. Archived from the original on 27 February 2012. Retrieved 28 February 2013.
  5. ^ Լոնդոն-2012. Հայ օլիմպիականները. Արթուր Դավթյան (in Armenian). sport.news.am. Retrieved 28 February 2013.
  6. ^ Результаты юношеского чемпионата Европы. (in Russian). www.longinestiming.com. Archived from the original on 25 October 2014. Retrieved 28 February 2013.
  7. ^ Արթուր Դավթյանը ուղեգիր նվաճեց (in Armenian). www.armsport.am. Archived from the original on 16 March 2012. Retrieved 28 February 2013.
  8. ^ Цоу дважды победил на этапе Кубка мира по спортивной гимнастике (in Russian). www.championat.com. Retrieved 28 February 2013.
  9. ^ "Cei mai buni tineri gimnasti ai concursului" (in Romanian). dianabulimar.wordpress.com. 31 March 2012. Retrieved 28 February 2013.
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  11. ^ Արթուր Դավթյանը 5-րդն է բազմամարտում (in Armenian). sport.news.am. Retrieved 28 February 2013.
  12. ^ Ալբերտ Ազարյան. "Արթուր Դավթյանը վնասվածքի պատճառով չկարողացավ լիարժեք հանդես գալ" (in Armenian). ArmFootball.com. Archived from the original on 27 December 2013. Retrieved 28 February 2013.
  13. ^ "Men's Qualification". www.london2012.com. Archived from the original on 8 December 2012. Retrieved 28 February 2013.
  14. ^ a b c d e "Davtyan, Artur--FIG Athlete Profile". FIG. Retrieved 28 February 2022.
  15. ^ "Minsk 2019 European Games Result Book" (PDF). EuropeanGymnastics.com. Retrieved 28 February 2022.
  16. ^ "Tokyo Olympics: Armenia's Artur Davtyan Wins Bronze Medal in Gymnastics". Massis Post. 2 August 2021. Archived from the original on 2 August 2021. Retrieved 2 August 2021.
  17. ^ "Element named after Armenia's Artur Davtyan is added to gymnastics' moves". NEWS.am Sport. 21 July 2022. Retrieved 21 July 2022.
  18. ^ MassisPost (2024-08-04). "BEAKING NEWS: Armenia's Artur Davtyan Wins Silver in Olympic Gymnastics • MassisPost". MassisPost. Retrieved 2024-08-05.
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