Gajane Chiloyan

Gayane Tschilojan ( Armenian Գայանե Չիլոյան at World Athletics Gayane Chiloyan * 27. September 2000 in Yerevan ) is an Armenian athlete that on the Sprint specializes. With a height of 1.64 m, her competition weight at the 2016 Olympic Games was 54 kg.

Gajane Chiloyan started ballet at the age of nine , which she did not like. At the age of ten she started to train for athletics at the suggestion of her aunt.

At the 2015 Armenian Championships in Artaschat , she ran an Armenian record in the 100-meter run of 11.54 s on May 28 . The next day she ran another Armenian record in the 200-meter run with 23.16 s, with which she qualified for the Olympic Games (the Olympic norm was 23.20 s).

At the 1st European Youth Championships in Tbilisi in July 2016 , she won the first run with 24.30 s and reached sixth place in the final with another 24.30 s. At the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro in August of the same year , she started as a 15-year-old, making her the youngest Armenian participant in the Olympic Games. She retired there in the 200-meter run with 25.03 s in the first run. At the U18 World Athletics Championships in Nairobi in 2017 , she was first in the first heat of the 200-meter run with 24.64 s and finished eighth in the final with 24.64 s. She won gold medals at the U20 Balkaniaden in Istanbul : in 2017 with 12.28 s in the 100-meter run and in 2018 in the 400-meter run with a time of 55.56 s.

Personal best

open air

• 100-meter run: 11.54 s on May 28, 2016 in Artaschat (Armenian record)
• 200-meter run: 23.16 s on May 29, 2016 in Artaschat (Armenian record)
• 400-meter run : 55.40 s on June 9, 2008 in Schaan
• 4 x 100 meter relay : 49.61 s on June 24, 2017 in Marsa

Hall

• 60-meter run : 7.56 s on February 25, 2017 in Belgrade
• 200-meter run: 24.70 s on February 18, 2017 in Istanbul
• 4 x 400 meter relay : 3:49:48 min on February 27, 2016 in Istanbul

Web links

• Gajane Tschilojan in the database of World Athletics (English)
• Gajane Tschilojan at sports-reference.com (English)
• Presentation of Gajane Chiloyan on the website of the National Olympic Committee of Armenia (Armenian)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Athletes' website at the 2016 Olympic Summer Games (English)
2. ↑ Gayane Chiloyan: Great honor to be the youngest Armenian Olympian at Rio 16 . Article on panorama.am of June 4, 2016 (English)
3. ↑ Runner Gayane Chiloyan becomes champion at Balkan States championship ( Memento of the original from July 10, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Article on the Armenian Diaspora website from June 5, 2017 
4. ↑ Ermeni atlet Gayane Chiloyan İstanbul'da altın madalya kazandı . Message on the website of the Armenian News Agency from June 22, 2018 (Turkish / Armenian)