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Eduard Azaryan

Personal information

Born

11 April 1958 (1958-04-11) (age 66)
Yerevan, Armenian SSR, Soviet Union

Residence

Yerevan, Armenia

Height

1.75 m (5 ft 9 in)

Weight

68 kg (150 lb)

Gymnastics career

Discipline

Men's artistic gymnastics

Country represented

Soviet Union

Club

SKA Yerevan

Medal record

Olympic Games

	1980 Moscow	Team competition
World Championships
	1978 Strasbourg	Team competition

Eduard Azaryan (Armenian: Էդուարդ Ազարյան, born 11 April 1958) is a former Soviet Armenian artistic gymnast. He is an Olympic Champion and four-time Soviet Champion. Azaryan was awarded the Honoured Master of Sport of the USSR title in 1980. He is the son of Albert Azaryan.

Biography

Eduard started gymnastics in his early childhood under the guidance of his father, a three-time Olympic champion Albert Azaryan. In 1978, Eduard Azaryan became USSR champion in the team all-around and joined the USSR national gymnastics team. In the same year, Azaryan won a bronze medal at the World Cup in the individual all-around and a silver medal at the 1978 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships in the team all-around.

Azaryan competed at the 1980 Summer Olympics in every artistic gymnastic event. He won a gold medal in the team all-around.

References

"1980 Summer Olympics". databaseOlympics.com. Archived from the original on 19 January 2013. Retrieved 6 December 2012.
Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Eduard Azaryan". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 2 December 2016.

External links

Eduard Azarian at Olympics.com
Eduard Azaryan at Olympic.org (archived)
Eduard Azaryan at Olympedia (archive)
sportgymnastics.ru at the Wayback Machine (archived 4 July 2012) (in Russian)

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Summary
1904: Mixed team (ZZX) 1908: Sweden (SWE) 1912: Italy (ITA) 1920: Italy (ITA) 1924: Italy (ITA) 1928: Switzerland (SUI) 1932: Italy (ITA) 1936: Germany (GER) 1948: Finland (FIN) 1952: Soviet Union (URS) 1956: Soviet Union (URS) 1960: Japan (JPN) 1964: Japan (JPN) 1968: Japan (JPN) 1972: Japan (JPN) 1976: Japan (JPN) 1980: Soviet Union (URS) 1984: United States (USA) 1988: Soviet Union (URS) 1992: Unified Team (EUN) 1996: Russia (RUS) 2000: China (CHN) 2004: Japan (JPN) 2008: China (CHN) 2012: China (CHN) 2016: Japan (JPN) 2020: ROC 2024: Japan (JPN)
1980 Soviet Union (URS): Nikolai Andrianov, Eduard Azaryan, Alexander Dityatin, Bogdan Makuts, Vladimir Markelov, Aleksandr Tkachyov

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