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| Born | 8 August 1992 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.62 m (5 ft 4 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Gymnastics career | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Discipline | Men's artistic gymnastics | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Country represented |  Armenia (2008–present) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Head coach(es) | Hakob Serobyan | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Artur Vahrami Davtyan (Armenian: Արթուր Դավթյան, born August 8, 1992) is an Armenian gymnast. He is the 2020 Olympic bronze medalist,[1] 2024 Olympic silver medalist[2] and the 2022 World Champion in vault. He is also the 2019 European Games vault champion and is an eight-time European Championships medalist.
Early life
[edit]Artur Davtyan was born on August 8, 1992, in Yerevan, Armenia. He started doing gymnastics at the age of 7 in 1998. Since 2008, he has been a member of the Armenian national gymnastics team. He is the brother of fellow national team member Vahagn Davtyan.[3]
Junior gymnastics career
[edit]At the 2009 Youth Olympic Festival in Tampere, Finland, Davtyan, along with fellow Armenians Vahan Vardanyan and Arthur Tovmasyan, placed sixth in the team event among 23 teams.[4] Individually, Davtyan placed sixth in the all-around, seventh on vault, sixth on parallel bars, and ninth on rings.[5]
The following year at the 2010 Junior European Championships, Davtyan won the title on vault with a score of 15.462 and won bronze on pommel horse. Additionally he placed seventh on rings and nineteenth in the all-around.[6]
Senior gymnastics career
[edit]2011–2012
[edit]Davtyan became age-eligible for senior level competition in 2011. He made his senior debut at the 2011 European Championships where he placed twentieth in the all-around. He competed at the 2011 World Championships where he placed ninety-fifth in the qualification round and did not advance to any finals.
In January 2012, Davtyan took part in the Olympic Test Event where he earned his berth to compete at the 2012 Summer Olympics.[7] He next competed at the Doha World Challenge Cup where he placed second on vault and fourth on 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] He competed at the 2012 European Championships where he placed eleventh on vault but did not qualify for the event final.[10][11] At the 2012 Olympic Games Davtyan finished fifteenth on vault and thirty-sixth in the all-around during the qualification round; he did not advance to any event final.[12][13]
2013–2016
[edit]Davtyan won bronze on vault at the 2013 European Championships, his first senior-level European Championship medal. At the 2014 Doha World Challenge Cup, he won gold on vault, earning his first international title at the senior level. At the 2014 World Championships he placed forty-fourth in the all-around during the qualification round.
At the 2015 Doha World Challenge Cup Davtyan won three medals, gold on vault, silver on rings, and bronze on pommel horse. He followed that up at the 2015 European Championships where he placed fourth on both vault and pommel horse. At the 2015 World Championships Davtyan placed thirty-second in the all-around during the qualification round.
In early 2016 Davtyan competed at the Olympic Test Event where he earned his second Olympic berth. He followed that up at the 2016 European Championships where he won silver on vault, his second European Championships medal.[14] At the 2016 Olympic Games Davtyan finished eleventh on vault and was the third reserve for the vault final.
2017–2021
[edit]Davtyan competed at numerous World Cups throughout 2017, winning a silver on vault and a bronze on pommel horse in Doha. At the 2017 World Championships he qualified to the all-around final, his first ever World Championship event final, where he ultimately finished thirteenth.
Davtyan competing on pommel horse in 2021
At the 2018 World Championships, Davtyan was initially the first reserve for the all-around final; however Canadian René Cournoyer withdrew and Davtyan was substituted in. Additionally he qualified for the vault final, his first apparatus final at a World Championships. He ended up finishing ninth in the all-around and seventh on vault.
Davtyan competed at the 2019 European Games where he won gold on vault.[15] At the 2019 World Championships he finished thirty-seventh in the all-around during the qualification round, which earned him an individual berth to the 2020 Summer Olympics, marking his third Olympic appearance. The Olympic Games, however, were postponed until 2021 due to the global COVID-19 pandemic.
Davtyan on the pommel horse at the 2020 Olympic Games
At the 2021 European Championships, Davtyan won gold on pommel horse.[14] At the 2021 Cairo World Cup, Davtyan performed a new pommel horse element, which was officially named after him in the Code of Points.[16]
At the postponed 2020 Olympic Games, Davtyan won bronze on vault, earning 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.[17]
2022–2024
[edit]At the 2022 World Cups in Cottbus, Doha, and Cairo, Davtyan won gold on vault at each. At the 2022 European Championships he won silver on vault behind Jake Jarman. He ended the year at the 2022 World Championships, where he won his first World title on vault and the first World title in artistic gymnastics for an independent Armenia.
Throughout 2023, Davtyan once again won gold on vault at the World Cups in Cottbus, Doha, and Cairo. Additionally he won gold on vault at the World Challenge Cups in Varna and Osijek and at the 2023 European Championships. At the 2023 World Championships he qualified to the vault final in third place; however during the final he messed up on his first vault and ultimately finished in sixth. Additionally he finished in sixteenth in the all-around during the qualification round which earned him an Olympic berth to his fourth Olympic Games; he withdrew from the final in order to focus on the apparatus finals.
Davtyan started 2024 competing at the World Cups in Cairo and Cottbus where he won gold on vault. At the 2024 European Championships he won silver on vault behind Jarman. At the 2024 Olympic Games, Davtyan won silver on vault behind Carlos Yulo of the Philippines, earning his second Olympic medal and the first medal for Armenia at the 2024 Olympics.[18]
2025–present
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Davtyan at the 2025 World Championships
Davtyan began 2025 competing at numerous World Cups, winning four gold medals and one bronze medal on vault. He won gold on vault at the 2025 European Championships, beating Jarman and Nazar Chepurnyi. At the 2025 World Championships he won silver on vault, once again behind Yulo.
Competitive history
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Davtyan (left) on the vault podium at the 2022 European Championships
References
[edit]- ^ Արթուր Դավթյանը՝ Օլիմպիական խաղերի բրոնզե մեդալակիր (in Armenian). www.escs.am/am. Archived from the original on 3 August 2021. Retrieved 2 August 2021.
- ^ "Մարմնամարզիկ Արթուր Դավթյանը՝ Օլիմպիական խաղերի փոխչեմպիոն". Hetq. Retrieved 4 August 2024.
- ^ "The Doha decider: inside a doubly significant weekend in Artistic Gymnastics". www.gymnastics.sport. Retrieved 2024-08-07.
- ^ Две медали на Олимпийском фестивале (in Russian). www.golos.am. Archived from the original on 27 February 2012. Retrieved 28 February 2013.
- ^ Լոնդոն-2012. Հայ օլիմպիականները. Արթուր Դավթյան (in Armenian). sport.news.am. Retrieved 28 February 2013.
- ^ Результаты юношеского чемпионата Европы. (in Russian). www.longinestiming.com. Archived from the original on 25 October 2014. Retrieved 28 February 2013.
- ^ Արթուր Դավթյանը ուղեգիր նվաճեց (in Armenian). www.armsport.am. Archived from the original on 16 March 2012. Retrieved 28 February 2013.
- ^ Цоу дважды победил на этапе Кубка мира по спортивной гимнастике (in Russian). www.championat.com. Retrieved 28 February 2013.
- ^ "Cei mai buni tineri gimnasti ai concursului" (in Romanian). dianabulimar.wordpress.com. 31 March 2012. Retrieved 28 February 2013.
- ^ "30th EUROPEAN ARTISTIC GYMNASTICS TEAM CHAMPIONSHIPS". www.longinestiming.com. Archived from the original on 27 December 2013. Retrieved 28 February 2013.
- ^ Արթուր Դավթյանը 5-րդն է բազմամարտում (in Armenian). sport.news.am. Retrieved 28 February 2013.
- ^ 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.
- ^ "Men's Qualification". www.london2012.com. Archived from the original on 8 December 2012. Retrieved 28 February 2013.
- ^ a b "Davtyan, Artur--FIG Athlete Profile". FIG. Retrieved 28 February 2022.
- ^ "Minsk 2019 European Games Result Book" (PDF). EuropeanGymnastics.com. Retrieved 28 February 2022.
- ^ "Element named after Armenia's Artur Davtyan is added to gymnastics' moves". NEWS.am Sport. 21 July 2022. Retrieved 21 July 2022.
- ^ "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.
- ^ MassisPost (2024-08-04). "BEAKING NEWS: Armenia's Artur Davtyan Wins Silver in Olympic Gymnastics • MassisPost". MassisPost. Retrieved 2024-08-05.
External links
[edit]- Artur Davtyan at World Gymnastics
- Artur Davtyan at Olympics.com
- Artur Davtyan at Olympedia
- Artur Davtyan at InterSportStats
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