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'''Karapet Chalyan''' (born 7 August 1993) is an Armenian Greco-Roman wrestler. He is a silver medalist at the European Games and a two-time bronze medalist at the European Wrestling Championships. He also represented Armenia at the 2020 Summer Olympics held in Tokyo, Japan.
== Career ==
In 2019, Chalyan represented Armenia at the European Games in Minsk, Belarus and he won the silver medal in the 77 kg event.<ref name="uww_european_games_2019">{{Cite web |url=https://unitedworldwrestling.org/sites/default/files/2019-10/results_06_minsk.pdf |title=2019 European Games Wrestling Results |website=UWW.org |publisher=United World Wrestling |access-date=4 April 2020}}</ref> In the final, he lost against Aleksandr Chekhirkin of Russia.<ref name="uww_european_games_2019"/>
Chalyan won one of the bronze medals in the 77 kg event at the 2020 European Wrestling Championships held in Rome, Italy.<ref name="teenager_nazaryan_wins_gold_2020">{{Cite news |last=Houston |first=Michael |url=https://www.insidethegames.biz/articles/1090423/nazaryan-bulgaria-european-wrestling |title=Teenager Nazaryan wins Greco-Roman gold on day two of European Wrestling Championships |date=11 February 2020 |website=InsideTheGames.biz |publisher=Inside the Games |access-date=11 February 2020}}</ref><ref name="karapet_chalyan_euro_champion_2020">{{Cite news |url=https://sport.news.am/eng/news/108225/european-wrestling-championships-karapet-chalyan-becomes-european-bronze-medalist.html |title=European Wrestling Championships: Karapet Chalyan becomes European bronze medalist |date=11 February 2020 |work=NEWS.am Sport |access-date=11 February 2020}}</ref><ref name="uww_european_championships_results_2020">{{Cite web |url=https://unitedworldwrestling.org/sites/default/files/2020-02/eucs-rome-final-book_1.pdf |title=2020 European Wrestling Championships Results |website=unitedworldwrestling.org |publisher=United World Wrestling |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200412124934/https://unitedworldwrestling.org/sites/default/files/2020-02/eucs-rome-final-book_1.pdf |archive-date=12 April 2020 |access-date=12 April 2020}}</ref> In the same year, he competed in the men's 77 kg event at the 2020 Individual Wrestling World Cup held in Belgrade, Serbia.<ref name="uww_individual_world_cup_results_book_2020">{{Cite web |title=2020 Individual Wrestling World Cup Results Book |url=https://unitedworldwrestling.org/sites/default/files/2020-12/2020-iwc-belgrade-final-book.pdf |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201218212337/https://unitedworldwrestling.org/sites/default/files/2020-12/2020-iwc-belgrade-final-book.pdf |archive-date=18 December 2020 |access-date=18 December 2020 |website=unitedworldwrestling.org |publisher=United World Wrestling}}</ref> In 2021, he lost his bronze medal match in the 82 kg event at the 2021 European Wrestling Championships in Warsaw, Poland.<ref name="uww_european_wrestling_championships_2021">{{Cite web |title=2021 European Wrestling Championships Results Book |url=https://uww.org/sites/default/files/2021-04/2021_senior_european_championships.pdf |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210425200427/https://uww.org/sites/default/files/2021-04/2021_senior_european_championships.pdf |archive-date=25 April 2021 |access-date=25 April 2021 |website=UWW.org |publisher=United World Wrestling}}</ref>
Chalyan competed in the men's 77 kg event at the 2020 Summer Olympics held in Tokyo, Japan.<ref name="wrestling_results_book_summer_olympics_2020">{{Cite web |title=Wrestling Results Book |url=https://olympics.com/tokyo-2020/olympic-games/resOG2020-/pdf/OG2020-/WRE/OG2020-_WRE_B99_WRE-------------------------------.pdf |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210807164330/https://olympics.com/tokyo-2020/olympic-games/resOG2020-/pdf/OG2020-/WRE/OG2020-_WRE_B99_WRE-------------------------------.pdf |archive-date=7 August 2021 |access-date=8 August 2021 |work=Tokyo 2020 Olympics |publisher=Tokyo Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games}}</ref> He lost his bronze medal match against Rafig Huseynov of Azerbaijan.<ref name="wrestling_results_book_summer_olympics_2020"/>
Chalyan competed in the 82{{nbsp}}kg event at the 2022 World Wrestling Championships held in Belgrade, Serbia.<ref name="results_book_world_wrestling_championships_2022">{{Cite web |title=2022 World Wrestling Championships Results Book |url=https://cdn.uww.org/s3fs-public/2022-09/final-book-2022-senior-world-championships_compressed.pdf?VersionId=zoTz_Ra8zK5EkVhfrZuDG5THXf4.3ik. |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220918183512/https://cdn.uww.org/s3fs-public/2022-09/final-book-2022-senior-world-championships_compressed.pdf?VersionId=zoTz_Ra8zK5EkVhfrZuDG5THXf4.3ik. |archive-date=18 September 2022 |access-date=18 September 2022 |website=United World Wrestling}}</ref>
== Achievements ==
{| class="wikitable" style="font-size:95%;" !Year !Tournament !Venue !Result !Event |- |2016 |European Championships |Riga, Latvia |align="center" bgcolor="cc9966" | 3rd |Greco-Roman 75{{nbsp}}kg |- |2019 |European Games |Minsk, Belarus |align="center" bgcolor="silver" | 2nd |Greco-Roman 77{{nbsp}}kg |- |2020 |European Championships |Rome, Italy |align="center" bgcolor="cc9966" | 3rd |Greco-Roman 77{{nbsp}}kg |}
== References == {{reflist}}
== External links == * {{IWD|DBC36870E5184FA8AE41A8A51CC6F4C4}} * {{UWW|chalyan-karapet}} * {{Olympics.com|karapet-chalyan}} * {{Olympedia}}
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Chalyan, Karapet}} Category:1993 births Category:Living people Category:Place of birth missing (living people) Category:Armenian male sport wrestlers Category:Wrestlers at the 2019 European Games Category:Medalists at the 2019 European Games Category:European Games silver medalists for Armenia Category:European Games medalists in wrestling Category:European Wrestling Championships medalists Category:Wrestlers at the 2020 Summer Olympics Category:Olympic wrestlers for Armenia Category:21st-century Armenian sportsmen {{Armenia-wrestling-bio-stub}}