Anushavan Sahakyan
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Born | (1972-01-23) 23 January 1972 (age 52) Yerevan, Armenian SSR, Soviet Union | ||||||||||||||
Height | 1.57 m (5 ft 2 in) | ||||||||||||||
Weight | 57 kg (126 lb) | ||||||||||||||
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Sport | Wrestling | ||||||||||||||
Event | Freestyle | ||||||||||||||
Club | Malatia Yerevan | ||||||||||||||
Coached by | Yuri Babayan | ||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Anushavan Sahakyan (Armenian: Անուշավան Սահակյան, born 23 January 1972) is a retired Armenian Freestyle wrestler. He became a European Champion in 1994.
Biography
Sahakyan was born on 23 January 1972 in Yerevan. He began to practice freestyle wrestling at the age of 12 under the coaching of Yuri Babayan. In 1990 he became a Junior World Champion.
From 1993 to 1999, he was a member of the national freestyle wrestling team of Armenia. The largest success in his career was winning the gold medal at the 1994 European Wrestling Championships. In the finals he defeated Russian Bagavdin Umakhanov, a two-time European Champion. Sahakyan and Armen Mkrtchyan are both the first ever European Wrestling Champions in freestyle wrestling from the independent Republic of Armenia.[1]
He finished his career in 1999. Since 2010 he has been coaching at the Yerevan wrestling club Malatia named after Vahan Zatikyan. From 2010 to 2012 he coached European Championship medalist Grigor Grigoryan.
References
- ^ "European Championship" (PDF). SportFieber.pdf. Retrieved 9 November 2012.[permanent dead link]
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- 1929:
Piet Mollin (BEL)
- 1930:
Piet Mollin (BEL)
- 1931:
Ödön Zombori (HUN)
- 1933:
Ödön Zombori (HUN)
- 1934:
Márton Lőrincz (HUN)
- 1935:
Marcello Nizzola (ITA)
- 1937:
Jakob Brendel (GER)
- 1946:
Lajos Bencze (HUN)
- 1949:
Nasuh Akar (TUR)
- 1966:
Aydın İbrahimov (URS)
- 1967:
Hasan Sevinç (TUR)
- 1968:
Ali Aliyev (URS)
- 1969:
Yancho Patrikov (BUL)
- 1970:
Ivan Shavov (BUL)
- 1972:
Ivan Kuleshov (URS)
- 1973:
Kirkor Leonov (BUL)
- 1974:
Pano Shelev (BUL)
- 1975:
Vladimir Yumin (URS)
- 1976:
Vladimir Yumin (URS)
- 1977:
Oleg Alekseyev (URS)
- 1978:
Buzay İbragimov (URS)
- 1979:
Sergey Beloglazov (URS)
- 1980:
Gurgen Bagdasaryan (URS)
- 1981:
Stefan Ivanov (BUL)
- 1982:
Sergey Beloglazov (URS)
- 1983:
Stefan Ivanov (BUL)
- 1984:
Sergey Beloglazov (URS)
- 1985:
Stefan Ivanov (BUL)
- 1986:
Georgi Kalchev (BUL)
- 1987:
Sergey Beloglazov (URS)
- 1988:
Sergey Beloglazov (URS)
- 1989:
Ahmet Ak (TUR)
- 1990:
Rumen Pavlov (BUL)
- 1991:
Bagavdin Umakhanov (URS)
- 1992:
Bagavdin Umakhanov (CIS)
- 1993:
Remzi Musaoğlu (TUR)
- 1994:
Anushavan Sahakyan (ARM)
- 1995:
Aslanbek Fidarov (UKR)
- 1996:
Serafim Barzakov (BUL)
- 1997:
David Pogosian (GEO)
- 1998:
David Pogosian (GEO)
- 1999:
Harun Doğan (TUR)
- 2000:
Murad Ramazanov (RUS)
- 2001:
Zsolt Bankuti (HUN)
- 2002:
Nazim Alidjanov (AZE)
- 2003:
Namig Abdullayev (AZE)
- 2004:
Martin Berberyan (ARM)
- 2005:
Ghenadie Tulbea (MDA)
- 2006:
Oleksandr Zakharuk (UKR)
- 2007:
Besik Kudukhov (RUS)
- 2008:
Djamal Otarsultanov (RUS)
- 2009:
Nariman Israpilov (RUS)
- 2010:
Mahmud Magomedov (AZE)
- 2011:
Djamal Otarsultanov (RUS)
- 2012:
Djamal Otarsultanov (RUS)
- 2013:
Giorgi Edisherashvili (GEO)
- 2014:
Vladimer Khinchegashvili (GEO)
- 2015:
Viktor Lebedev (RUS)
- 2016:
Gadzhimurad Rashidov (RUS)
- 2017:
Giorgi Edisherashvili (AZE)
- 2018:
Giorgi Edisherashvili (AZE)
- 2019:
Süleyman Atlı (TUR)
- 2020:
Azamat Tuskaev (RUS)
- 2021:
Süleyman Atlı (TUR)
- 2022:
Vladimir Egorov (MKD)
- 2023:
Aliabbas Rzazade (AZE)
- 2024:
Arsen Harutyunyan (ARM)
- 56 kg: 1929–1937
- 57 kg: 1946–1996
- 58 kg: 1997–2001
- 55 kg: 2002–2013
- 57 kg: 2014–present
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