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Hovhannes Davtyan

Hovhannes Davtyan
Medal record
Men's Judo
World Championships
Bronze medal – third place 2009 Rotterdam –60 kg
European Championships
Silver medal – second place 2007 Belgrade –60 kg
Silver medal – second place 2012 Chelyabinsk –60 kg
Bronze medal – third place 2014 Montpellier -60 kg
Bronze medal – third place 2016 Kazan -60 kg

Hovhannes Davtyan (Armenian: Հովհաննես Դավթյան, born November 25, 1983 in Leninakan, Armenian SSR) is an Armenian judoka. He fights in the under 60 kg category, and is very tall compared to the other fighters in his weight division.

Hovhannes Davtyan was born on November 25, 1983 in Leninakan, Armenian SSR (now Gyumri, Armenia). He began practicing judo at the age of 12 years under his current coach Karen Simonyan.

Davtyan made his debut on the international stage in January 2005 at the World Cup in Tbilisi, where he took fifth place and left without a medal. In March of that year, at another stage of the World Cup tour in Tallinn, Davtyan, for the first time in his career, became a medal winner of the international competition, winning a silver medal. In October and November 2005, in preparation for the European Championship, Davtyan won second place at an international tournament in Sweden and won antologichnogo tournament in Finland. Held in Kyiv at the European Youth Championship, Davtyan took 5th place.

2006 was, as a whole, not successful for the Armenian athlete. In March, at the World Cup in Prague, he lost in one of the circles of the decisive battle. Davtyan still got the opportunity to fight for the bronze medal. However, he lost and took fifth place.

In 2007, Davtyan performed quite successfully. In January, at the World Cup in Tbilisi, the Armenian sportsman took third place. At the beginning of the next month, at the Super World Cup in Paris, he took fifth place. A few weeks later, at the end of February, at another stage of the Super World Cup in Paris, Davtyan won the tournament and won his first gold medal in the international arena. In April 2007, at the European Championships in Belgrade, Davtyan ranked second. A month later, at the next stage of the World Cup, held in Moscow, Davtyan won the gold medal. At the end of that year, Davtyan took second place at an international tournament in Yerevan and the International Cup in Tehran.

At the beginning of 2008, at the World Cup in Tbilisi, Davtyan ranked fifth. In early February, at the Super World Cup in Paris, he came in seventh. At the Super World Cup, held in late February in Hamburg, he was third. In Lisbon, the European Championships, Davtyan finished seventh in the final. In the same year, as part of the Armenian national team, Davtyan went to the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. After winning in the first round against Cuban Yosmani Piker, he lost in the second round to the representative of North Korea Kim Kyong-Jin.


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