Poor Nazarjan (wrestler)

Poor Nazarjan medal table
Wrestler
Armenia / Bulgaria
Olympics Greco-Roman style
gold	1996 Atlanta	up to 52 kg
gold	2000 Sydney	up to 58 kg
bronze	2004 Athens	up to 60 kg
Greco-Roman style world championships
silver	1993 Stockholm	up to 52 kg
silver	1995 Prague	up to 52 kg
bronze	1997 Wroclaw	up to 58 kg
bronze	1998 Gävle	up to 58 kg
bronze	1999 Athens	up to 58 kg
gold	2002 Moscow	up to 60 kg
gold	2003 Créteil	up to 60 kg
gold	2005 Budapest	up to 60 kg
Greco-Roman style European championships
gold	1994 Athens	up to 52 kg
gold	1995 Besançon	up to 52 kg
silver	1996 Athens	up to 52 kg
gold	1998 Minsk	up to 58 kg
gold	1999 Sofia	up to 58 kg
silver	2000 Moscow	up to 58 kg
gold	2002 Seinäjoki	up to 60 kg
gold	2003 Belgrade	up to 60 kg
silver	2008 Tampere	up to 60 kg

Armen Lyudwigowitsch Nazarjan ( Bulgarian Армен Назарян , Armenian Արմեն Նազարյան , born March 9, 1974 in Masis , Armenian SSR ) is a Bulgarian wrestler of Armenian origin and two-time Olympic champion. Nasarjan started for Bulgaria in 1997 in the Greco-Roman style in the class up to 58 kg (since 2002 60 kg).

As early as the early 1990s he celebrated his first successes as Espoir. In 1993 he was world champion in Athens and European champion in Istanbul in 1994.

At the age of nineteen, Nasarian started in 1993 for the first time at the Senior World Championships in Stockholm. He finished second behind Raúl Martínez Alemán from Cuba.

In his long career, Nazarjan has so far participated in three Olympiads, in which he won the gold medal in 1996 and 2000. In 2004 he won the bronze medal. Nazarjan was able to win a gold medal at the Olympic Games for both Armenia and Bulgaria. In addition to these successes, he won three world championships and five European championships. Nasarjan has been a member of the FILA International Wrestling Hall of Fame since September 2005 .

His most frequent and strongest opponents include and were the German Alfred Ter-Mkrtchyan , Wilajte Agajew from Azerbaijan, Bunyamin Emik from Turkey, the Kazakh Yuri Melnitschenko and the Armenian Karen Mnatskanjan and the Japanese Makoto Sasamoto.

His son Edmond is also a wrestler.

successes

As espoir

• 1992, 3rd place , EM of the Espoirs in Székesfehérvár , GR, up to 52 kg, behind Magomed Magomedow , Russia and Aljaksandr Paulau , Belarus
• 1993, 1st place , Espoirs World Championships in Athens , GR, up to 52 kg, in front of Brandon Paulson , USA and Boris Srulevich , Israel
• 1994, 1st place , European Championship of Espoirs in Istanbul , GR, up to 52 kg, ahead of Ercan Yıldız , Turkey and Oleg Nemtschenko , Russia

As a senior

• 1993, 2nd place , World Championships in Stockholm , GR, up to 52 kg, behind Raúl Martínez Alemán , Cuba and in front of Alfred Ter-Mkrtchyan , Germany
• 1994, 1st place , EM in Athens , GR, up to 52 kg, ahead of Farhat Mageramow , Belarus and Alfred Ter-Mkrtchyan
• 1994, 15th place , World Championships in Tampere , GR, up to 52 kg, winner: Alfred Ter-Mkrtchyan ahead of Natig Aiwasow , Azerbaijan
• 1995, 1st place , EM in Besançon , GR, up to 52 kg, ahead of Alfred Ter-Mkrtchyan and Andrij Kalaschnykow , Ukraine
• 1995, 2nd place , World Championships in Prague , GR, up to 52 kg, behind Samuel Danieljan , Russia and in front of Alfred Ter-Mkrtchyan
• 1996, 2nd place , EM in Athens , GR, up to 52 kg, behind Andrij Kalaschnykow and in front of Alfred Ter-Mkrtchyan
• 1996, gold medal , OS in Atlanta , GR, up to 52 kg, after victories over Andrij Kalaschnykow, Ha Tae-yeon , South Korea , Samuel Danieljan, Lazaro Rivas Scull , Cuba and Brandon Paulson , USA

Starting for Bulgaria since 1997:

• 1997, 3rd place , World Championships in Breslau , GR, up to 58 kg, after defeats against Victor Capacho , Colombia and Yuri Melnichenko , Kazakhstan and victories over Park Chi-ho , South Korea, Koba Guliaschwili , Georgia , Ruslan Chakimow , Ukraine, Dennis Hall , USA and Vilayet Agayev , Azerbaijan
• 1998, 1st place , EM in Minsk , GR, up to 58 kg, after victories over Wilayet Agajew, István Majoros , Hungary , Alfred Ter-Mkrtchyan and Rafik Simonjan , Russia
• 1998, 3rd place , WM in Gävle , GR, up to 58 kg, after a defeat against Juri Melnitschenko and victories over David Maia Braga Dacosta , Portugal , Peter Stjernberg , Sweden , Aigars Jansons , Latvia , Igor Petrenko , Belarus , Schamseddin Chudaiberdiew , Uzbekistan , Rafik Simonjan and Yuri Melnichenko
• 1999, 1st place , EM in Sofia , GR, up to 58 kg, after victories over Istvan Majoros, Koba Guliaschwili, Ergüder Bekisdamat , Turkey and Valeri Nikonorow , Russia
• 1999, 3rd place , World Championships in Athens , GR, up to 58 kg, after victories over Uludamirbek Asilbekow , Kyrgyzstan , Dennis Hall, Vilayet Agayev and Istvan Majoros and two victories over Igor Petrenko and one defeat against Yuri Melnichenko
• 2000, 2nd place , EM in Moscow , GR, up to 58 kg, behind Istvan Majoros and in front of Rıfat Yıldız , Germany and Norbert Futo , Yugoslavia
• 2000, gold medal , OS in Sydney , GR, up to 58 kg, after victories over Makoto Sasamoto , Japan , Brett Cash , Australia , Nepes Gukulow , Turkmenistan , Rifat Yildiz and Kim In-sub , South Korea
• 2001, 4th place , World Championships in Patras , GR, up to 58 kg, after victories over Alfred Ter-Mkrtchyan, Irakli Chochua , Georgia, Istvan Majoros and Makoto Sasamoto and defeats against Karen Mnatsakanjan , Armenia and Roberto Monzon Gonzalez , Cuba
• 2002, 1st place , EM in Seinäjoki , GR, up to 60 kg, after victories over Thomas Kathan , Austria , Henrik Stahl , Sweden, Natig Aiwasow, Karen Mnatsakanjan and Rustem Mambetow , Russia
• 2002, 1st place , World Championships in Moscow , GR, up to 60 kg, after victories over Christos Gikas , Greece , Dowletberdi Mamedow , Turkmenistan, Bahman Tayebi-Kermani , Iran , James Gruenwald , USA, Olexandr Tschwoschtsch , Ukraine and Włodzimierz Zawadzki , Poland
• 2003, 1st place , EM in Belgrade , GR, up to 60 kg, after victories over Bunyamin Emik , Turkey , Ion Gaimer , Macedonia , Karen Mnatsakanjan, Aljaksandr Sliwinski , Belarus and Suren Geworkian , Ukraine
• 2003, 1st place , World Championships in Créteil , GR, up to 60 kg, after victories over Dowletberdi Mamedow, Alexander Tsertsvadze , Australia, Jarkko Ala-Huikku , Finland , Akaki Chachua , Georgia, James Gruenwald and Roberto Monzon Gonzalez
• 2004, bronze medal , OS in Athens , GR, up to 60 kg, after victories over Ashraf El Garably , Egypt , Makoto Sasamoto and Alexei Shevzov , Russia and defeats against Olxandr Tschwoschtsch and Jung Ji-hyun , South Korea
• 2005, 1st place , World Championships in Budapest , GR, up to 60 kg, after victories over Edgaras Venckaitis , Lithuania , Laszlo Kliment , Hungary , Dilshod Aripov , Uzbekistan , Petr Svehla , Czech Republic and Ali Ashkani Agboloag , Iran
• 2006, 22nd place , World Championships in Guangzhou , GR, up to 60 kg, after a defeat against Bunyamin Emik
• 2008, 2nd place , EM in Tampere , GR, up to 60 kg, after victories over Alberto Martinez , Spain , Davor Štefanek , Serbia and Aslan Abdullin , Russia and a defeat against Jarkko Ala-Huikku
• 2008, 7th place , OS in Beijing , GR, up to 60 kg, after victories over Dawit Bedinadze , Georgia and Makoto Sasamoto and defeats against Vitali Rəhimov , Azerbaijan and Jiang Sheng , People's Republic of China

More results

Nasarjan won the 1995 World Military Games in the class up to 57 kg. At a test tournament organized by FILA in Nikea in 1998 , he came fifth after victories over Nikos Tsagarakis from Greece and Alfred Ter-Mkrtchyan and defeats against Igor Petrenko and Sinan Hanli from Germany.

Individual evidence

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Web links

• Profile of Armen Nasarjan at the Institute for Applied Exercise Science
• Armen Nazarjan in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )