In 2011, Harutyun Merdinyan was the first gymnast to win a European Championships medal for independent Armenia – a bronze on pommel horse. This medal was followed by five more, including two golds. The last he won at this...
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For Artur Davtyan, winning pommel horse gold at the European Championships was especially meaningful because the Armenian anthem played in the arena on the Armenian Genocide Remembrance Day. For the medal ceremony, Davtyan pinned...
The European Gymnastics Federation has decided to move the 2020 MAG and WAG European Championships to Mersin, Turkey. The men’s competition will take place from 9th to 13th of December, and the women’s competition...
Albert Azaryan, a Soviet gymnast famous for his rings routine, was the first gymnast to win Olympic gold on rings twice. His path in gymnastics was quite uncommon as he only started training at 17, after first being a blacksmith...
The Open Israeli Championships continued on Saturday with the men’s competition. In addition to World and European medalists from Israel, Alexander Shatilov, Artem Dolgopyat and Andrey Medvedev, several foreign gymnasts...
Davtyan brothers had a blast at the European Games, with Vahagn winning silver on rings and Artur winning gold on vault in the following final. In the all-around, Artur Davtyan hoped to win a medal but ended up finishing...
In 2016, Houry Gebeshian made history when became the first Armenian female gymnast to qualify to the Olympics. Now, as a coach, she’s trying to help another Armenian gymnast to make it to Tokyo. Anahit Assadourian, a...
Harutyun Merdinyan of Armenia talked to News.AM Sport about his gymnastics career in 2017. Merdinyan is known for being especially strong on pommel horse, he won medals of all colors on this event at Euros including the gold in...
Akop Serobyan, the head coach of the Armenian artistic gymnastics team, said that Armenia will not participate in gymnastics competitions in Azerbaijan despite the fact that boycott will hurt Armenian gymnasts. Baku will host the...