Seda Tutkhalyan
| Seda Tutkhalyan Սեդա Թութխալյան Седа Тутхалян |
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Tutkhalyan at the 2016 Olympics
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| Personal information | |
| Full name | Seda Gurgenovna Tutkhalyan |
| Country represented |
 Russia
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| Born |
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.
Tutkhalyan was born July 15, 1999 in Gyumri, Armenia, and moved to Moscow early in childhood. Her father, Gurgen Tutkhalyan, was a four-time world champion for the Soviet Union in sambo martial arts, and her older brother, Vaik; currently competes for Belarus in the same sport.
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. 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. 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.
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