Artur Dalaloyan

Artur Grachyevich Dalaloyan (Russian: Артур Грачьевич Далалоян) born 26 April 1996 is a Russian artistic gymnast who represented ROC at the 2020 Summer Olympics. He was part of the teams who won gold at the 2020 Olympic Games and 2019 World Championships and silver at the 2018 World Championships. Individually Dalaloyan is the 2018 World All-Around Champion and the 2019 World All-Around silver medalist. He is a nine-time world medalist and a five-time European champion.

Personal life Dalaloyan was born in Tiraspol, Moldova to an Armenian father and a Russian mother. He has a younger brother. Their parents later moved to Russia. 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. Dalaloyan's father left when he was young and is not in contact with him.

While a schoolboy, he performed as a backup dancer for Russia's entrant Alexandra Golovchenko in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2007.

He married Olga Borodina, after proposing in 2019. They have two daughters together, Nicole (born 2019), and Karolina (born 2021). Olga additionally has a son, Stepan, from a previous relationship.

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 Brasília where Russia won the team gold ahead of Great Britain.

Senior 2015–17 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 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.

2019 At the 2019 European Artistic Gymnastics Championships in Szczecin, Poland, Dalaloyan placed second all-around, first on floor exercise, and third on vault and high bar.

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.

2021 At the Russian National Championships Dalaloyan placed second behind Aleksandr Kartsev. He was selected to compete at the upcoming European Championships but had to withdraw to a partial Achilles ligament tear. In June Dalaloyan was selected to represent the Russian Olympic Committee at the 2020 Summer Olympics alongside Denis Ablyazin, David Belyavskiy, and Nikita Nagornyy.

At the Olympic Games Dalaloyan helped the Russian athletes qualify to the team final in third place and individually he qualified to the all-around final despite his recent injury. During the team final he competed on all six events and helped the team win gold with a score of 262.5; this was the first team Olympic gold medal for Russian athletes in 25 years. During the all-around final Dalaloyan finished sixth.

On 11 September, Dalaloyan along with his Olympic Team were awarded with Order of Friendship medals by President Vladimir Putin.

2024

In June 2024, he became the silver medalist of the BRICS Games in the ring exercises and in the individual all-around.

Participant of the first season of the extreme sports TV show "Super Ninja" on the CTC channel. In 2024, he took part in the first season of the TNT channel's Titans show under the number "1", and reached the final release.

Competitive history

Eponymous skills

Dalaloyan has one skill named after him in the Code of Points (CoP)—a dismount in parallel bars.

Apparatus Name Description Difficulty Competition Completed—NotesParallel bars Dalaloyan Double salto forward piked with 1/2 turn G 2019 European ChampionshipsSkill already in the CoP but awaiting successful completion in competition.