Seda Tutkhalyan

Seda Tutkhalyan
Седа Тутхалян
Սեդա Թութխալյան
Tutkhalyan at the 2016 Olympics
Personal information
Full nameSeda Gurgenovna Tutkhalyan
Country represented Russia
Born (1999-07-15) 15 July 1999 (age 24)
Gyumri, Armenia
ResidenceMoscow, Russia
DisciplineWomen's artistic gymnastics
LevelSenior international elite
Years on national team2013–16 (RUS)
Head coach(es)Marina Ulyankina
Assistant coach(es)I.A. Kiryanova, V.N. Ulyankin
Medal record
Representing  Russia
Olympic Games
Silver medal – second place 2016 Rio de Janeiro Team
European Games
Gold medal – first place 2015 Baku Team
Silver medal – second place 2015 Baku Vault
European Championships
Gold medal – first place 2016 Bern Team
Youth Olympic Games
Gold medal – first place 2014 Nanjing All-Around
Gold medal – first place 2014 Nanjing Uneven Bars
Silver medal – second place 2014 Nanjing Floor Exercise

Seda Gurgenovna Tutkhalyan (Russian: Седа Гургеновна Тутхалян, Armenian: Սեդա Գուրգենի Թութխալյան; born 15 July 1999) is a 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.[citation needed]

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.[citation needed] 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.[citation needed] In early July, she competed at the Student Spartakiada, winning team, all-around, and vault gold, uneven bars bronze, and placed fourth on floor.[citation needed] 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.[citation needed]

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.[citation needed]

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.[citation needed] 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, and it appeared at that point that Seda would challenge her teammate Aliya Mustafina for a surprise bronze medal. However, these hopes began to dissipate on the beam, when 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 (far 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
Junior
2012 National Championships (CMS) 12 7
2013 National Championships (CMS) 1st place, gold medalist(s) 1st place, gold medalist(s) 1st place, gold medalist(s) 1st place, gold medalist(s) 7 3rd place, bronze medalist(s)
Olympic Hopes 1st place, gold medalist(s) 2nd place, silver medalist(s) 1st place, gold medalist(s) 2nd place, silver medalist(s)
Gymnasiade 1st place, gold medalist(s) 5 5 8 4 3rd place, bronze medalist(s)
2014 National Championships (MS) 2nd place, silver medalist(s) 2nd place, silver medalist(s) 1st place, gold medalist(s) 2nd place, silver medalist(s) 5 6
European Championships 1st place, gold medalist(s) 7 4 7 8
Student Spartakiada 1st place, gold medalist(s) 1st place, gold medalist(s) 1st place, gold medalist(s) 3rd place, bronze medalist(s) 4
Black Sea (99) 9 2nd place, silver medalist(s) 1st place, gold medalist(s) 1st place, gold medalist(s)
Youth Olympic Games 1st place, gold medalist(s) 5 1st place, gold medalist(s) 2nd place, silver medalist(s)
Senior
2015 National Championships 2nd place, silver medalist(s) 3rd place, bronze medalist(s) 3rd place, bronze medalist(s) 6 3rd place, bronze medalist(s) 6
ITA-RUS-ROU-COL Friendly 1st place, gold medalist(s) 1st place, gold medalist(s)
European Games 1st place, gold medalist(s) 2nd place, silver medalist(s) 5
Rusudan Sikharulidze tournament 1st place, gold medalist(s) 2nd place, silver medalist(s) 2nd place, silver medalist(s) 1st place, gold medalist(s)
Russian Cup 1st place, gold medalist(s) 2nd place, silver medalist(s) 2nd place, silver medalist(s) 2nd place, silver medalist(s) 4
World Championships 4 15 6
Voronin Cup 1st place, gold medalist(s)
2016 Stuttgart World Cup 4
National Championships 2nd place, silver medalist(s) 2nd place, silver medalist(s) 1st place, gold medalist(s) 8 8
Osijek World Cup 2nd place, silver medalist(s) 3rd place, bronze medalist(s)
European Championships 1st place, gold medalist(s)
Russian Cup 4 2nd place, silver medalist(s) 2nd place, silver medalist(s) 4 2nd place, silver medalist(s) 6
Olympic Games 2nd place, silver medalist(s) 22
Joaquim Blume Memorial 3rd place, bronze medalist(s)
Elite Gym Massilia 1st place, gold medalist(s) 13 6 7
Toyota International 1st place, gold medalist(s) 8
2017 National Championships 1st place, gold medalist(s) 4 1st place, gold medalist(s) 8 1st place, gold medalist(s) 3rd place, bronze medalist(s)
2018 National Championships 3rd place, bronze medalist(s) 7
2019 National Championships 1st place, gold medalist(s) 12 6 7

International Scores

Year Competition Description Location Apparatus Rank-Final Score-Final Rank-Qualifying Score-Qualifying
2014 Youth Olympic 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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  3. ^ Amanda Turner (21 June 2013). "Russian Gymnasts Show High Hopes in Penza". International Gymnast Magazine. Archived from the original on 2 October 2016. Retrieved 12 August 2016.
  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.
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