Mığır Mığıryan

Mığır Mığıryan doing sports on the campus of Robert College (1912)

Mıgırdiç Mıgıryan or Mıgırdiç Mıgıryan (completely Turkish Mıgırdiç Mığıryan , Armenian Մկրտիչ Մկրյան Mkrtitsch Mkrjan * 12. September 1882 in Üsküdar , then Ottoman Empire ; † 20th century ) was one of the two athletes that the Ottoman Empire at the 1912 Summer Olympics in Stockholm and thus represented when it first took part in the Olympic Games . He took part in the disciplines shot put , discus throw , ambidextrous shot put, pentathlon and decathlon . Besides him, the country was represented by the athlete Vahram Papazyan , also an ethnic Armenian .

Life

Mığır Mığıryan was of Armenian descent and came from a wealthy family. He grew up in Üsküdar and Istanbul and attended Robert College in neighboring Arnavutköy (now a district of Istanbul). One of his classmates was Vahram Papazyan.

When the Ottoman Empire (Turkish Empire) by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) in 1911 "official" to the organized by the IOC Olympic Games has been approved, the President gave the Turkish Olympic Committee Selim Sırrı Tarcan ads in local newspapers İkdam and Sabah on to To recruit athletes for the 1912 Olympic Games in Sweden . Mığıryan applied to the ads.

He was accepted and participated in five different sports disciplines in the 1912 Olympic Games. Thus Mığır Mığıryan holds the record for most sports disciplines that a Turkish athlete completed in Olympic history.

Nothing is known about his further life.

Olympic games

At the Summer Olympics in Stockholm in 1912, the two Ottoman citizens and athletes Mığır Mığıryan and Vahram Papazyan were the only ones who represented their country and carried the Ottoman flag at the opening ceremony. Both had to find their own way to finance their participation costs, as there were no grants from the state or the Olympic Committee. While Papazyan received financial support from an Armenian sports club and a charity event, Mığıryan's expenses were raised by his family.

At the Summer Games, Mığıryan managed to complete all five sports. In the decathlon against the famous athlete Jim Thorpe , he suffered a wrist injury and had to give up.

Results

discipline	Passage		Semifinals		final
discipline	Result	rank	Result	rank	Result	rank
Shot put	N / A		10.63	19th	eliminated
Discus throw	N / A		32.98	34	eliminated
Bullet with two hands	N / A		19.78	7th	eliminated
Pentathlon	N / A				Elim-3 67	23
Decathlon	N / A				1527.750	29

Web links

Mığır Mığıryan in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
Armenian Sport Life in the Pre-WWI Ottoman Empire at the Armenian Genocide Museum & Institute (English)

Individual evidence

↑ Rober Koptaş : Olimpiyat tarihinin gayrı resmi sayfası. (No longer available online.) Agos , June 26, 2012, archived from the original on October 28, 2012 ; Retrieved February 4, 2013 (Turkish). 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. @1@ 2
↑ Olimpiyat Stadyumlarında İlk Türk Bayrakları. Ministry of Youth and Sports of the Republic of Turkey, archived from the original on December 3, 2010 ; Retrieved on February 4, 2013 (Turkish): "Osmanlı Olimpiyat Cemiyeti artık kurulmuştu ve bu iki sporcu bu derneğin verdiği belgelerle resmen bir Olimpiyat Oyunları'na ilk kez katılıyorlardı. Bu sporcularımız Vahram Papazyan ve Mırgırdıç Mıgıryan Efendiler idi. "
^ Erik Bergvall: The fifth Olympiad: the official report of the Olympic games of Stockholm, 1912 . Ed .: Swedish Olympic Committee. ( online PDF [accessed February 4, 2013]).
↑ ^a ^b Ayşe Hür: Olimpiyatlardaki Osmanlılar. (No longer available online.) Haber Rüzgarı, archived from the original on January 16, 2014 ; Retrieved February 6, 2013 . 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. @1@ 2
↑ Vahram Papazyan . In: Millî Eǧitim Basımevi (ed.): Türk ansiklopedisi . 25, 1946, p. 417. Retrieved February 4, 2013. “Bunlardan Vahram Papazyan, Stokholm sefirimizin eşi tarafından kırmızı atlet fanilesinin üzerine dikilen beyaz Ay - yıldız altında yarışan ilk atletimiz oldu. Türkiye'nin ilk defa bir OO'nda devletçe gönderilen resmî bir sporcu kafilesiyle temsili "
^ Bill Mallon, Jeroen Heijmans: Historical dictionary of the Olympic movement . 4th edition. Scarecrow Press, Lanham, Md., ISBN 978-0-8108-7522-7 ("Armenia's first connection with the modern Olympics can be traced to the 1912 Olympics, when two Armenian track and field athletes represented Turkey. These two athletes, Mığır Mığıryan and Haret Papazyan, comprised the entire Turkish team in 1912, but they had, in fact, been sent to Stockholm by the Armenian General Sports Union. ").
↑ Soner Yalçın : Siz kimi kandırıyorsunuz! 1st edition. Doğan Kitap, Şişli, Istanbul 2008, ISBN 978-975-991-709-8 , p. 138 ( online [accessed on February 4, 2013] "Peki: kendi paralarıyla 1912 Stockholm Olimpiyatlarına giden ve Ay Yıldızlı bayrağımızı uluslararası turnuvada ilk dalgalandıranlar Vahram Papazyan ve Mıgırdiç Mıgırdiç Mıgıryan du adınuz?").

personal data
SURNAME	Mığıryan, Mığır
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Mığıryan, Mıgırdiç (full name); Mıgıryan, Mıgır; Մկրտիչ Մկրյան (Armenian); Mkrjan, Mkrtitsch
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	ottoman olympic athlete
DATE OF BIRTH	September 12, 1882
PLACE OF BIRTH	Üsküdar , Ottoman Empire
DATE OF DEATH	20th century

[Agos-1] Rober Koptaş : Olimpiyat tarihinin gayrı resmi sayfası. (No longer available online.) Agos , June 26, 2012, archived from the original on October 28, 2012 ; Retrieved February 4, 2013 (Turkish). 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. @1@ 2

[TCspor-2] Olimpiyat Stadyumlarında İlk Türk Bayrakları. Ministry of Youth and Sports of the Republic of Turkey, archived from the original on December 3, 2010 ; Retrieved on February 4, 2013 (Turkish): "Osmanlı Olimpiyat Cemiyeti artık kurulmuştu ve bu iki sporcu bu derneğin verdiği belgelerle resmen bir Olimpiyat Oyunları'na ilk kez katılıyorlardı. Bu sporcularımız Vahram Papazyan ve Mırgırdıç Mıgıryan Efendiler idi. "

[Bergvall-3] Erik Bergvall: The fifth Olympiad: the official report of the Olympic games of Stockholm, 1912 . Ed .: Swedish Olympic Committee. ( online PDF [accessed February 4, 2013]).

[hur-4] Ayşe Hür: Olimpiyatlardaki Osmanlılar. (No longer available online.) Haber Rüzgarı, archived from the original on January 16, 2014 ; Retrieved February 6, 2013 . 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. @1@ 2

[Basimevi-5] Vahram Papazyan . In: Millî Eǧitim Basımevi (ed.): Türk ansiklopedisi . 25, 1946, p. 417. Retrieved February 4, 2013. “Bunlardan Vahram Papazyan, Stokholm sefirimizin eşi tarafından kırmızı atlet fanilesinin üzerine dikilen beyaz Ay - yıldız altında yarışan ilk atletimiz oldu. Türkiye'nin ilk defa bir OO'nda devletçe gönderilen resmî bir sporcu kafilesiyle temsili "

[Mallon-6] Bill Mallon, Jeroen Heijmans: Historical dictionary of the Olympic movement . 4th edition. Scarecrow Press, Lanham, Md., ISBN 978-0-8108-7522-7 ("Armenia's first connection with the modern Olympics can be traced to the 1912 Olympics, when two Armenian track and field athletes represented Turkey. These two athletes, Mığır Mığıryan and Haret Papazyan, comprised the entire Turkish team in 1912, but they had, in fact, been sent to Stockholm by the Armenian General Sports Union. ").

[Yalcin-7] Soner Yalçın : Siz kimi kandırıyorsunuz! 1st edition. Doğan Kitap, Şişli, Istanbul 2008, ISBN 978-975-991-709-8 , p. 138 ( online [accessed on February 4, 2013] "Peki: kendi paralarıyla 1912 Stockholm Olimpiyatlarına giden ve Ay Yıldızlı bayrağımızı uluslararası turnuvada ilk dalgalandıranlar Vahram Papazyan ve Mıgırdiç Mıgırdiç Mıgıryan du adınuz?").