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
Medal record Competitor for  Russia European Games 2015 Baku Team 2015 Baku Vault Youth Olympic Games 2014 Nanjing All-Around 2014 Nanjing Uneven Bars 2014 Nanjing Floor Exercise

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

References

External links

• Seda Tutkhalyan at Fédération Internationale de Gymnastique
• Nanjing 2014 YOG Profile
• Gymnastics Results