Eduard Azaryan
Eduard Albertowitsch Azarjan (born April 11, 1958 in Yerevan ) is a former Armenian gymnast who competed for the Soviet Union in the 1970s.
Eduard Asarjan won the bar gymnastics competition at the World Cup in Sao Paulo in 1978 . At the World Gymnastics Championships in Strasbourg in 1978 , the Soviet team with Nikolai Andrianow , Alexander Ditjatin , Alexander Tkachev , Gennady Kryssin , Eduard Azaryan and Vladimir Markelov won the silver medal behind the Japanese. In 1979 Azarjan won the all-round competition at the Spartakiad of the Peoples of the USSR in front of Nikolai Andrianow.
At the 1980 Olympic Games in Moscow , the Soviet squad won the team competition with Alexander Ditjatin, Nikolai Andrianow, Alexander Tkachev, Eduard Azarjan, Bohdan Makuz and Vladimir Markelow. In the individual all-around fight Ditjatin won before Andrianow. In the team competition serving as qualification for the final, Tkachev and Azaryan were tied in fourth place behind the Bulgarian Stoyan Deltschew . Since only three gymnasts per group moved into the final of the individual all-around competition, only Tkachev was allowed to compete and kept his fourth place from the qualification. Azaryan finished fifth in the qualification on four machines, but since Ditjatin, Andrianow or Tkachev were each ahead of him, Azarjan did not reach a machine final.
Edward's father Albert Asarjan was the best ring gymnast in the world in the 1950s with two Olympic victories and two world championship titles . Eduard was the only of four children of Albert Asarjan who was internationally successful in sport.
literature
- Volker Kluge : Summer Olympic Games. The Chronicle III. Mexico City 1968 - Los Angeles 1984 . Sportverlag Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-328-00741-5 , in particular note 357, page 847
Web links
- Eduard Asarjan in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
Footnotes
- ↑ World Championships in Gymnastics on sport-komplett.de
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Azarianan, Edward |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Azarjan, Eduard Albertowitsch (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | soviet gymnast |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 11, 1958 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Yerevan |