Artur Dalaloyan


Artur Grachyevich Dalaloyan is a Russian artistic gymnast of Armenian origin. He is the 2018 World All-Around champion, a five-time European champion, and a two-time Russian national all-around champion.

Personal life

Dalaloyan started doing gymnastics at age six, while still living in Novosibirsk. A year later, his family relocated to Moscow and he began training under Aleksandr Kalinin. In March 2019 Artur proposed to his partner Olga, and their daughter Nikol was born on August 16, 2019.

Career

Junior

In his junior career, Dalaloyan won bronze in the all-around the 2013 Russian Junior Nationals. He competed at the 2013 Gymnasiade in Brasilia where Russia won the team gold ahead of Great Britain. He won individual medals, taking gold in the rings and vault, silver in the horizontal bar, and bronze in the all-around event.
He appeared in his first major international competition at the 2014 European Junior Championships where the Russian Team won the silver medal, he also qualified in 2 individual apparatus in vault and rings.

Senior

In 2015 and 2016, He competed in the Russian Championships however, Dalaloyan was not selected as an entry list or alternate for the 2016 Rio Olympics. On December 18–22, Dalaloyan won the all-around gold at the Voronin Cup.
In 2017, Dalaloyan had a career breakthrough where he became the 2017 Russian National all-around champion. He then competed in his first major senior event at the 2017 European Championships where he won the all-around silver medal behind Ukraine's Oleg Vernyayev. He qualified in the vault finals where he won the gold medal ahead of Marian Drăgulescu. In August 23–27, Dalaloyan competed at the Russian Cup in Ekaterinburg, he won gold in team, in the all-around after bombing in pommel horse; he slipped into 4th place behind Nikita Ignatyev. In the apparatus finals, Dalaloyan won gold in vault and 2 silver medals on Parallel Bars and Floor Exercise.
In 2018, Dalaloyan became all-around World Champion. He became the first Russian to achieve that feat since 1999. He earned 87.598 total points, as did Xiao Ruoteng, though after tie-breaking rules were enforced, Dalaloyan was named All-Around Champion. In event finals, Dalaloyan then won gold on floor exercise, silver on vault, and bronze on parallel bars. He was also awarded the Longines Prize for Elegance.
At the 2019 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships, Dalaloyan won with his team, the Russian Federation's first World Championship Team Gold medal, and a Silver medal in the Individual All Around competition behind teammate Nikita Nagornyy, despite almost sitting down his Blanik on vault.

Competitive history

Eponymous skills

Dalaloyan has one skill named after him, a dismount in parallel bars.
ApparatusNameDescriptionDifficultyCompetition Completed—Notes
Parallel barsDalaloyanDouble salto forward piked with 1/2 turnG2019 European Championships— skill already in the Code of Points bt never performed successfully before.