Seda Tutkhalyan

Seda Tutkhalyan
Սեդա Թութխալյան
Седа Тутхалян
 Gymnast 

Tutkhalyan at the 2016 Olympics
Personal information
Full name Seda Gurgenovna Tutkhalyan
Country represented  Russia
Born (1999-07-15) 15 July 1999
Gyumri, Armenia
Residence Moscow, Russia
Discipline Women's artistic gymnastics
Level Senior international elite
Head coach(es) Marina Ulyankina
Assistant coach(es) I.A. Kiryanova, V.N. Ulyankin

Seda Gurgenovna Tutkhalyan (Armenian: Սեդա Գուրգենի Թութխալյան, Russian: Седа Гургеновна Тутхалян; born 15 July 1999) is an Armenian-born Russian artistic gymnast. She is the 2014 Youth Olympic Games Individual All-around champion and a 2016 Summer Olympics Team silver medalist.

Personal life

Tutkhalyan was born July 15, 1999 in Gyumri, Armenia, and moved to Moscow early in childhood.[1] Her father, Gurgen Tutkhalyan, was a four-time world champion for the Soviet Union in sambo martial arts,[1] and her older brother, Vaik; currently competes for Belarus in the same sport.[1]

Junior career

2013 was Tutkhalyan's breakout year. At the Russian Junior Championships, she won team, all-around, vault, and uneven bars gold, floor exercise bronze, and placed seventh on balance beam.[2] Later, at the Olympic Hopes competition, she won gold with her team and on vault, and silver in the all-around and on floor exercise.[3] Her international debut came that winter, at the Gymnasiade in Brazil, where she won team gold, floor exercise bronze, and placed fourth on beam, fifth in the all-around and on vault, and eighth on bars.

In 2014, she competed at the Russian Championships in April, winning vault gold, team, all-around, and uneven bars silver, and placing fifth on beam and sixth on floor. She competed at the European Championships, she won gold with her team and placed fourth on vault, seventh in the all-around and on balance beam, and eighth on floor exercise. In early July, she competed at the Student Spartakiada, winning team, all-around, and vault gold, uneven bars bronze, and placed fourth on floor. She was then selected to represent Russia at the 2014 Youth Olympic Games in Nanjing, China; there, she won the all-around and uneven bars, silver on floor exercise, and placed fifth on vault.[4]

Senior career

Tutkhalyan became a senior elite gymnast in 2015. At her senior debut at the Russian National Championships in early March, she won three bronze medals, for all-around, vault and balance beam.

In June, Tutkhalyan was named to the Russian team for the 2015 European Games in Baku, with Aliya Mustafina and Viktoria Komova. Tutkhalyan won the gold medal with the team, and posted the second-highest all-around score in qualification, 57.332.[5] However, the highest score was by her teammate Mustafina and only one gymnast per country could advance to the final at these games. Tutkhalyan did qualify for the vault final in second place with a score of 14.466 for two vaults,[6] and for the balance beam final in first place with a score of 14.600.[7] Tutkhalyan was named to the Russian team for the 2015 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships. She helped her team to a 4th-place finish and individually qualified to the all-around and balance beam finals. In the all-around final, she placed 15th, and in the balance beam final, she placed 6th.

In 1–10 April 2016; Tutkhalyan competed at the 2016 Russian Artistic Gymnastics Championships taking silver in all-around, team and won gold in vault finals. On 30 April – 1 May, she competed at the Osijek World Cup where she won silver in uneven bars and bronze in balance beam finals.[8] She was named to the team at the European Championships and contributed to the Russian team's gold medal finish; however, she did not make any individual finals.[9]

2016 Olympics

Tutkhalyan was named to the Russian Olympic team after Ksenia Afanasyeva's health problems relegated the latter gymnast to alternate and later forced her retirement from gymnastics.[10] In qualifications, Tutkhalyan competed the all-around and qualified in 4th place to the all-around final with a score of 58.207.[11] In the team final, she contributed a beam score of 14.766 and a floor score of 13.766 to the Russian team's silver medal finish.[12]

In the all-around final, competing in the top group, Tutkhalyan began well with a vault score of 14.866 and a bars score of 15.033; however, on the beam, she fell on her double-pike dismount after a mostly clean routine, receiving a score of 13.800, and multiple falls on floor, her last apparatus, left her with 10.966 on that event and a total all-around score of 54.665 for 22nd place.[13][14] She had not made any event finals, although she was second reserve for the vault final.[15]

Competitive history

Tutkhalyan (left) and the Russian team with their Olympic silver medals after the women's team final on 9 August 2016
Year Event Team AA VT UB BB FX
2012National Championships (Junior) (CMS) 12th 7th
2013National Championships (Junior) (CMS) 1st 1st 1st 1st 7th 3rd
Olympic Hopes1st 2nd 1st 2nd
Gymnasiade 1st 5th 5th 8th 4th 3rd
2014National Championships (Junior) (MS) 2nd 2nd 1st 2nd 5th 6th
European Championships (Junior)1st 7th 4th 7th 8th
Student Spartakiada 1st 1st 1st 3rd 4th
Black Sea (99) 9th 2nd 1st 1st
Youth Olympic Games 1st 5th 1st 2nd
2015National Championships 2nd 3rd 3rd 6th 3rd 6th
ITA-RUS-ROU-COL Friendly 1st 1st
European Games 1st 2nd 5th
Rusudan Sikharulidze tournament 1st 2nd 2nd 1st
Russian Cup 1st 2nd 2nd 2nd 4th
World Championships 4th 15th 6th
Voronin Cup 1st
2016Stuttgart World Cup 4th
National Championships 2nd 2nd 1st 8th 8th
Osijek World Cup 2nd 3rd
European Championships 1st
Russian Cup 4th 2nd 2nd 4th 2nd 6th
Olympic Games 2nd 22nd
Year Competition Description Location Apparatus Rank-Final Score-Final Rank-Qualifying Score-Qualifying
2014 Youth Olympics Games Nanjing All-Around 1 54.900 1 53.650
Vault 5 13.816 3 14.300
Uneven Bars 1 13.575 3 13.000
Balance Beam 9 12.900
Floor Exercise 2 13.733 3 13.150
2015 European Games Baku Team 1 116.897
All-Around 15 55.432 2 57.332
Vault 2 14.683 2 14.466
Uneven Bars 6 14.166
Balance Beam 5 13.566 1 14.600
Floor Exercise 9 13.600
World Championships Glasgow Team 4 171.964 2 231.437
All-Around 15 55.432 7 56.599
Vault 9 14.816
Uneven Bars 20 14.066
Balance Beam 6 13.500 5 14.533
Floor Exercise 83 13.100
2016 European Championships Bern Team 1 175.212 2 173.261
Vault 10 14.283
Balance Beam 11 13.833
Floor Exercise 10 13.766
Olympic Games Rio de Janeiro Team 2 176.688 3 174.620
All-Around 22 54.665 5 58.207
Vault 10 14.733
Uneven Bars 11 15.133
Balance Beam 14 14.466
Floor Exercise 25 13.875

References

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  2. "Seda Tutkhalyan won the all-around gold in the Candidate for Master of Sport category". Retrieved 26 April 2013.
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  4. "2nd Youth Olympic Games in Nanjing – Seda Tutkhalyan and Nikita Nagornyy from Russia are the most successful WAG and MAG gymnasts". European Union of Gymnastics. Retrieved 25 August 2014.
  5. Baku 2015 Staff (12 August 2016). "Baku 2015 European Games: Gymnastics Artistic Women's Qualification, All Around". Baku2015.com. Retrieved 12 August 2016.
  6. Baku 2015 Staff (12 August 2016). "Baku 2015 European Games: Gymnastics Artistic Women's Qualification, Vault". Baku2015.com. Retrieved 12 August 2016.
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  8. http://www.gymnasticsresults.com/2016/eu/cro/world-challenge-cup-osijek.html
  9. http://www.gymnasticsresults.com/euro/2016/wagsen/teamsfinal.pdf
  10. https://thegymter.net/2016/07/21/shelgunova-replaces-afanasyeva-as-alternate/
  11. http://www.gymnasticsresults.com/olympics/2016/rio2.html
  12. http://www.gymnasticsresults.com/olympics/2016/wag/teamsfinal.pdf
  13. http://www.gymnasticsresults.com/olympics/2016/rio.html
  14. https://thegymter.net/2016/08/23/russia-surprises-with-team-silver/
  15. http://www.gymnasticsresults.com/olympics/2016/afday1.pdf
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