Samvel Danielyan

Samvel Danielyan
Personal information
Born (1971-02-04) 4 February 1971
Baku, Soviet Azerbaijan
Height 1.65 m (5 ft 5 in)
Weight 55 kg (121 lb)
Sport
Sport Wrestling
Event(s) Greco-Roman
Club SKA Rostov-on-Don
Coached by Pjotr Tchinibaljan

Samvel Danielyan (Armenian: Սամվել Դանիելյան, Russian: Самвел Владимирович Даниелян, born 4 February 1971) is a retired Armenian-Russian Greco-Roman wrestler.[1] He is a three-time Russian Champion, World Cup winner, European Champion, and World Champion.

Biography

Danielyan was born on 4 February 1971 in Baku in 1971. He started practicing Greco-Roman wrestling in 1978 under the teaching of Felix Avakov and the honored coach of the USSR Edward Kasparov. In 1987 he was made a member of the Soviet junior team. He became a Junior European Champion in 1987, Espoir European Champion, Junior World Champion, and Espoir World Cup winner in 1989, and Junior European Champion again in 1989. During the Nagorno-Karabakh War, he moved to Krasnodar in 1989, and later to Rostov-on-Don where he continued wrestling under Pjotr Tchinibaljan. In 1991, he won the Espoir World Championship and the Wrestling World Cup as a senior.[2]

Starting in 1992, Danielyan transitioned to the Russian national team, winning silver at the World Cup that year and winning bronze at the 1993 European Wrestling Championships. Danielyan won the 1995 World Wrestling Championships gold medal, defeating Armen Nazaryan in the final round. At the 1996 Summer Olympics, Danielyan was defeated by Nazaryan, who would go on to win the Olympic gold medal, in the semifinals. Danielyan lost to Andriy Kalashnykov in the bronze medal match. He won the European Wrestling Championships in 1999.[2]

In 2001 He completed his career in 2001. In March 2008, he moved to Moscow, and has been working in the Sports School №64 at the Ivan Yarygin Sports Palace.[3]

References

  1. "Samvel Danielyan". Sports-Reference.com. Retrieved 19 October 2012.
  2. 1 2 Danelyan, Samuel (RUS)
  3. "Тренерский состав спортивной школы" (in Russian). sport.uvao.ru. Retrieved 28 December 2012.


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