Artur Dalaloyan

Personal life

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.

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 Brasilia where Russia won the team gold ahead of Great Britain, he won individual medals taking gold in rings, vault, silver in horizontal bar and bronze in all-around.

He appeared in his first major international competition at the 2014 European Junior Championships where the Russian Team won the silver medal, he also qualified in 2 individual apparatus in vault and rings.

Senior

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 2017, Dalaloyan had a career breakthrough where he became the 2017 Russian National all-around champion. He then competed in his first major senior event at the 2017 European Championships where he won the all-around silver medal behind Ukraine's Oleg Vernyayev. He qualified in the vault finals where he won the gold medal ahead of Marian Drăgulescu. In August 23-27, Dalaloyan competed at the Russian Cup in Ekaterinburg, he won gold in team, in the all-around after bombing in pommel horse; he slipped into 4th place behind Nikita Ignatyev. In the apparatus finals, Dalaloyan won gold in vault (tied with Nikita Nagornyy) and 2 silver medals on Parallel Bars and Floor Exercise.

Competitive history