Armenia concluded its participation in the 2024 Olympic Games. Fifteen athletes represented Armenia in Paris, winning four medals—three silver and one bronze.
Overall, the 2024 Olympics were successful for Armenia. The results improved compared to the previous games: we won three silver and one bronze medal, while in Tokyo, we had two silver and two bronze medals. At least five other athletes were close to winning medals.
Armenia team at the 2024 Olympics:
SILVER: Artur Aleksanyan — Greco-Roman wrestling.
SILVER: Artur Davtyan — gymnastics.
SILVER: Varazdat Lalayan — weightlifting.
BRONZE: Malkhas Amoyan — Greco-Roman wrestling.
All results of Armenian athletes at the 2024 Olympic Games:
Wrestling:
Artur Aleksanyan (97 kg, Greco-Roman wrestling) — 2nd place.
1/8 finals: Artur Aleksanyan (Armenia) - Kim Sun-jun (South Korea) 9-0.
1/4 finals: Artur Aleksanyan (Armenia) - Rustam Assakalov (Uzbekistan) 9-5.
1/2 finals: Artur Aleksanyan (Armenia) - Gabriel Rosillo (Cuba) 5-3.
FINAL: Artur Aleksanyan (Armenia) - Mohammad Hadi Saravi (Iran) 1-4.
Malkhas Amoyan (77 kg, Greco-Roman wrestling) — 3rd place.
1/8 finals: Malkhas Amoyan (Armenia) - Johnny Sarkinen (Finland) 8-0.
1/4 finals: Malkhas Amoyan (Armenia) - Amin Kaviyaninezhad (Iran) 3-0.
1/2 finals: Malkhas Amoyan (Armenia) - Nao Kusaka (Japan) 1-3.
FOR BRONZE: Malkhas Amoyan (Armenia) - Aram Vardanyan (Uzbekistan) 6-5.
Slavik Galstyan (67 kg, Greco-Roman wrestling) — 5th place.
1/8 finals: Slavik Galstyan (Armenia) - Andres Montano (Ecuador) 3-2.
1/4 finals: Slavik Galstyan (Armenia) - Mamadassa Silla (France) 3-2.
1/2 finals: Slavik Galstyan (Armenia) - Said Esmaeili (Iran) 4-10.
FOR BRONZE: Malkhas Amoyan (Armenia) - Luis Orta Sanchez (Cuba) 0-7.
Arsen Harutyunyan (57 kg, freestyle wrestling) — 7th place.
1/8 finals: Arsen Harutyunyan (Armenia) - Roman Bravo Young (Mexico) 13-3.
1/4 finals: Arsen Harutyunyan (Armenia) - Gullomjon Abdullaev (Uzbekistan) 5-12.
Vazgen Tevanyan (65 kg, freestyle wrestling) — 7th place.
1/8 finals: Vazgen Tevanyan (Armenia) - Goderdzi Dzebisashvili (Georgia) 11-0.
1/4 finals: Vazgen Tevanyan (Armenia) - Tulga Tumur Ochir (Mongolia) 5-7.
Boxing:
David Chaloyan (+92 kg) — 5th place.
1/8 finals: David Chaloyan (Armenia) - Delicious Orie (Great Britain) 3-2.
1/8 finals: David Chaloyan (Armenia) - Ayoub Ghadfa (Spain) 0-5.
Gymnastics:
Artur Davtyan (vault) — 2nd place.
Final result in vault - 14.966 points.
Vaagn Davtyan (rings) — 6th place.
Final result in rings - 14.866 points.
Swimming:
Artur Barseghyan (100 meters freestyle) — 56th place.
Result - 51.54.
Varsenik Manucharyan (100 meters butterfly) — 26th place.
Result - 1:01.24.
Athletics:
Yervand Mkrtchyan (800 meters running) — 51st place.
Result - 1:49.91. New record for Armenia.
Shooting:
Elmira Karapetyan (10-meter air pistol shooting) — 9th place.
Unfortunately, Elmira missed qualifying for the final by just 1 point. Qualification result - 576-14x (9th place).
Weightlifting:
Andranik Karapetyan (89 kg) — 7th place.
Snatch - 170 kg, Clean and Jerk - 200 kg. Total - 370 kg.
Garik Karapetyan (102 kg) — 4th place.
Snatch - 186 kg, Clean and Jerk - 212 kg. Total - 398 kg.
Varazdat Lalayan (+102 kg) — 2nd place.
Snatch - 215 kg, Clean and Jerk - 252 kg. Total - 467 kg (personal record).
Also, as part of the Bahrain national team, Gor Minasyan won the bronze medal in the same weight category as Varazdat Lalayan. He lives and trains in Armenia and at the Olympics, his coach was Pashik Alaverdyan, the coach of the Armenian national team. Gor Minasyan moved to Bahrain because he could not compete for Armenia due to quotas - there is a maximum of one athlete from each country in each weight class.
