Eduard Azaryan

Eduard Azaryan
Personal information
Country represented	Soviet Union
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)
Discipline	Men's artistic gymnastics
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.

External links

• Eduard Azaryan at Olympics.com
• Eduard Azaryan at Olympics at Sports-Reference.com (archived)
• Eduard Azaryan at databaseSports.com at archive.today (archived 21 January 2013)
• sportgymnastics.ru at the Wayback Machine (archived 4 July 2012) (in Russian)