Seda Tutkhalyan

Seda Tutkhalyan
 Gymnast 

Tutkhalyan at the 2015 Russian Championships
Personal information
Full name Seda Gurgenovna Tutkhalyan
Country represented  Russia
Born (1999-07-15) 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 (Russian: Седа Гургеновна Тутхалян; Armenian: Սեդա Գուրգենի Թութխալյան, born 15 July 1999 in Gyumri, Armenia) is a senior elite Russian artistic gymnast. She is the 2014 Youth Olympic Games All-around champion.

Personal life

Seda comes from an athletic family. She is of Armenian descent. Her father, Gurgen Tutkhalyan, was a four-time world champion in sambo of the Soviet Union, and her older brother, Vae, currently competes for Belarus in sambo wrestling.

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.[1] 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.[2]

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.

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.[3] 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,[4] and for the balance beam final in first place with a score of 14.600.[5]

Competitive history

Year Event Team AA VT UB BB FX
2012National Championships (Junior) (CMS) 12th 7th
2013National Championships (Junior) (CMS) 1st 1st 1st 1st 7th 3rd
Olympic Hopes1st 2nd 1st 2nd
Gymnasiade 1st 5th 5th 8th 4th 3rd
2014National Championships (Junior) (MS) 2nd 2nd 1st 2nd 5th 6th
European Championships (Junior)1st 7th 4th 7th 8th
Student Spartakiada 1st 1st 1st 3rd 4th
Black Sea (99) 9th 2nd 1st 1st
Youth Olympic Games 1st 5th 1st 2nd
2015National Championships 2nd 3rd 3rd 6th 3rd 6th
ITA-RUS-ROU-COL Friendly 1st 1st
European Games 1st 2nd 5th
Rusudan Sikharulidze tournament 1st 2nd 2nd 1st
Russian Cup 1st 2nd 2nd 2nd 4th
World Championships 4th 15th 6th
Voronin Cup 1st
Year Competition Description Location Apparatus Rank-Final Score-Final Rank-Qualifying Score-Qualifying
2014 Youth Olympics 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

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