Vahram Papazyan

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Vahram Papazyan (1912)

Full name Vahram Hepet S. Papazyan
nation Ottoman Empire 1844Ottoman Empire Ottoman Empire
birthday September 12, 1892
place of birth Üsküdar ,  Ottoman Empire
size 173 cm
Weight 71 kg
date of death March 7, 1986
Place of death Emerson ,  USA
Career
discipline Middle distance run
Best performance 1500 m: 4: 08.8 min; 3000 m: 8: 46.8 min
society Robert College Istanbul

Vahram Hepet S. Papazyan ( Armenian Վահրամ Փափազեան ; * September 12, 1892 in Üsküdar , Ottoman Empire ; †  March 7,  1986 in Emerson , New Jersey / USA ) was one of the two athletes who won 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 800-meter and 1500-meter races for men. Besides him, the country was represented by the athlete Mığır Mığıryan , also an ethnic Armenian .

Life

Vahram Papazyan was of Armenian descent and was born the son of a newspaper seller. He grew up in Üsküdar and Istanbul and attended Robert College in neighboring Arnavutköy (now a district of Istanbul). One of his classmates was Mığır Mığıryan. Every morning Papazyan first ran from his parents' apartment in the Bebek district to the “ High Gate ” to pick up newspapers and bring them to his father's kiosk. Then he ran to college in Arnavutköy, so that he ran a lot every day.

At the age of 13 he took part as a middle-distance runner in the so-called Olympic Intermediate Games in Athens in 1906 . Papazyan came 8th in the 800-meter run, but did not finish in the 1500-meter run. He was the youngest participant in the 1906 Athens Intermediate Olympics.

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 . Papazyan immediately responded to the complaint, expressing his desire to represent his home country at the international games. To cover the cost of his travels, he asked for financial support from the Armenian sports club Ardavast , of which he was a member. The association then organized a play in the Greek Theater in Arnavutköy in order to both raise the necessary funding and raise awareness for Papazyan. Papazyan played a minor role himself. The entire cost of his participation in the Olympics could be covered.

After graduating from Robert College in 1913, he was instrumental in founding the Armenian General Athletic Association .

The genocide of the Armenians in 1915 survived Papazyan. He left his homeland and settled in Beirut , which was then a vilayet of Syria . There he married Annette Egavian and had two sons named Robert and Harold and two daughters named Yolanda and Diane. Eventually he and his family moved to the United States , where he became an electrical engineer . Papazyan worked for Eddy & Co. in Providence , Rhode Island , for 35 years before retiring.

Vahram Papazyan died at the age of 93 in the Armenian retirement home in Emerson, New Jersey. His grave is in the Swan Point Cemetery in Providence.

Olympic games

At the Summer Olympics in Stockholm in 1912, the two Ottoman citizens and athletes Vahram Papazyan and Mığır Mığıryan 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.

In the competitions Papazyan was eliminated in both the 800-meter run and the 1500-meter run. According to the Turkish Ministry of Youth and Sports, he had a "fabulous pace" in the 1,500 meter run and led the race. However, with 20 yards to go, Papazyan got dizzy and collapsed. According to a later report by one of his grandsons, however, the following reason for the failure should have existed:

“I remember stories about my grandfather, Vahram Papazian, who ran the Decathlon in the 1912 Olympics in Stockholm. Grandpa would tell us how, suddenly, two lengths ahead of the nearest contender, it dawned on him that if he won, the Turkish flag would be raised. So he stopped. "

“I remember stories about my grandfather, Vahram Papazyan, who competed in the decathlon at the 1912 Stockholm Olympics. Grandfather told us how suddenly, as he was two lengths ahead of his next competitor, it occurred to him that the Turkish flag would be hoisted if he won. So he stopped walking. "

In a letter Papazyan wrote while in Beirut, he reported that he was disappointed in attending the Olympics that Turkish flags had not been displayed as part of the Olympic decoration in Stockholm. He then turned to the local Turkish embassy, ​​expressed his concerns and expressed the intention to leave the games, whereupon the ambassador had the omission remedied the next day and the athlete began his disciplines.

Web links

Commons : Vahram Papazyan  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h i 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. "
  2. ↑ a b Olimpiyat tarihinin gayrı resmi sayfası. Agos , July 26, 2012, accessed on September 19, 2019 (Turkish): “Türkiye'den Olimpiyatlara ilk resmi katılımın 100. yıldönümü. Bundan tam yüz yıl önce, 1912'de, Osmanlı vatandaşı iki Ermeni sporcu, Mıgırdiç Mıgıryan ve Vahram Papazyan, Stockholm'de düzenlenen 5. Olimpiyat Oyunları'nda, atletizm alanında ülkemiziş ”
  3. ↑ Coubertin / Selim Siri ve Türkiye- Uluslararası Olimpiyad Komitesi (IOC) ilişkileri. (No longer available online.) Turkish National Olympic Committee, archived from the original on January 29, 2013 ; 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@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.olimpiyatkomitesi.org.tr
  4. ^ Young and old get set for Olympics (July 25, 2012). Gulf News .
  5. ↑ a b c d e f Vahram S. Papazian; ran in the 1912 Olympics . In: Providence Journal . , Rhode Island11. March 1986, p. C-02.
  6. ↑ Rober Koptaş : Olimpiyat tarihinin gayrı resmi sayfası. Agos, July 26, 2012, accessed on September 19, 2019 (Turkish): "1915'te yaşanan katliamlar sırasında hayatta kalabilen ve daha sonra Beyrut'a yerleşen Vahram Papazyan"
  7. ↑ Millî Eǧitim Basımevi (ed.): Türk ansiklopedisi. 25, 1946, p. 417.
  8. ^ Bill Mallon, Jeroen Heijmans: Historical dictionary of the Olympic movement . 4th ed. Scarecrow Press, Lanham, Md., ISBN 978-0-8108-7522-7 .
  9. ↑ a b Hayk Demoyan: Armenian Sport in Ottoman Empire . Tigran Mets, Yerevan 2009, p. 220 .
  10. ↑ Soner Yalçın : Siz kimi kandırıyorsunuz! 1. baskı. Edition. Doğan Kitap, Şişli / Istanbul 2008, ISBN 978-975-991-709-8 , p. 138 ( online [accessed February 4, 2013] Quote = Peki: kendi paralarıyla 1912 Stockholm Olimpiyatlarına giden ve Ay Yıldızlı bayrağımızı uluslararası turnuvada ilk dalgalandıranlar Vahram Papazyan ve Mıgırdiç Mıgıuçan du).
  11. ^ Erik Bergvall: The fifth Olympiad: the official report of the Olympic games of Stockholm, 1912 . Ed .: The fifth Olympiad: the official report of the Olympic games of Stockholm, 1912. Swedish Olympic Committee ( la84foundation.org [PDF; accessed February 4, 2013]).
  12. ^ Stories of my Grandfather . In: AIM: Armenian International Magazine . tape 4 . AIM, Glendale, California 1993, pp. XLVII ( limited preview in Google Book Search [accessed February 4, 2013]).
  13. ↑ Olimpiyat tarihinin gayrı resmi sayfası. Agos, July 26, 2012, accessed on September 19, 2019 (Turkish): “Sabah Stockholm'e vardığımda, sokakların ve büyük binaların olimpiyatlara katılan irili ufaklı ülkelerin bayraklarıyla donatıldığını gördüm. Ama hiçbir yerde Türk bayrağı yoktu. Bu durum beni çok üzdü. Nihayetinde vatanımın, Türkiye'nin temsilcisiydim ve ülkeme karşı gösterilen bu çirkin tavır, benim için bir aşağılamaydı. Barınmam için bana ayrılan mekâna varmadan, bir araba tuttum ve doğrudan Türk elçiliğine gittim. Öfkemi anlatacak ve hemen bir çare bulunmasını rica edecektim. "
personal data
SURNAME Papazyan, Vahram
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Papazyan, Vahram Hepet S. (full name); Papazian, Vahram (different spelling)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Ottoman Olympic middle-distance runner
DATE OF BIRTH September 12, 1892
PLACE OF BIRTH Üsküdar , Ottoman Empire
DATE OF DEATH March 7, 1986
Place of death Emerson , New Jersey , United States