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Russian artistic gymnast (born 1999)

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Seda Tutkhalyan Седа Тутхалян Սեդա Թութխալյան Tutkhalyan at the 2016 Olympics Personal information Full name Seda Gurgenovna Tutkhalyan Born (1999-07-15) 15 July 1999 (age 26) Gyumri, Armenia Gymnastics career Discipline Women's artistic gymnastics Country represented Russia (2013–2016) Head coach Marina Ulyankina Assistant coach(es) I.A. Kiryanova, V.N. Ulyankin Medal record Representing Russia Olympic Games 2016 Rio de Janeiro Team European Games 2015 Baku Team 2015 Baku Vault European Championships 2016 Bern Team Youth Olympic Games 2014 Nanjing All-Around 2014 Nanjing Uneven Bars 2014 Nanjing Floor Exercise

**Seda Gurgenovna Tutkhalyan** ([Russian](/source/Russian_language): Седа Гургеновна Тутхалян, [Armenian](/source/Armenian_language): Սեդա Գուրգենի Թութխալյան; born 15 July 1999) is a Russian artistic gymnast. She is the [2014 Youth Olympic Games](/source/2014_Youth_Olympic_Games) Individual All-around champion and a [2016 Summer Olympics](/source/2016_Summer_Olympics) Team silver medalist.

## Personal life

Tutkhalyan was born July 15, 1999, in [Gyumri](/source/Gyumri), [Armenia](/source/Armenia), and moved to [Moscow](/source/Moscow) early in childhood.[1] Her father, Gurgen Tutkhalyan, was a four-time world champion for the [Soviet Union](/source/Soviet_Union) in [sambo martial arts](/source/Sambo_(martial_art)),[1] and her older brother, Vaik, currently competes for [Belarus](/source/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](/source/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](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed)*]

In 2014, she competed at the [Russian Championships](/source/2014_Russian_Artistic_Gymnastics_Championships) in April, winning vault gold, team, all-around, and uneven bars silver, and placing fifth on beam and sixth on floor.[*[citation needed](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed)*] She competed at the [European Championships](/source/2014_European_Women's_Artistic_Gymnastics_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](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia: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](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed)*] She was then selected to represent [Russia](/source/Russia) at the [2014 Youth Olympic Games](/source/2014_Summer_Youth_Olympics) in [Nanjing](/source/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](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed)*]

In June, Tutkhalyan was named to the Russian team for the [2015 European Games](/source/Gymnastics_at_the_2015_European_Games) in Baku, with [Aliya Mustafina](/source/Aliya_Mustafina) and [Viktoria Komova](/source/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](/source/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](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed)*]

In 1–10 April 2016; Tutkhalyan competed at the [2016 Russian Artistic Gymnastics Championships](/source/2016_Russian_Artistic_Gymnastics_Championships) taking silver in all-around, team and won gold in vault finals.[*[citation needed](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed)*] On 30 April – 1 May, she competed at the [Osijek World Cup](/source/2016_in_artistic_gymnastics) where she won silver in uneven bars and bronze in balance beam finals.[8] She was named to the team at the [European Championships](/source/2016_European_Women's_Artistic_Gymnastics_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](/source/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](/source/Russia_women's_national_gymnastics_team) with their [Olympic silver medals](/source/Olympic_medal) after the [women's team final](/source/Gymnastics_at_the_2016_Summer_Olympics_%E2%80%93_Women's_artistic_team_all-around) on 9 August 2016

Year Event Team AA VT UB BB FX Junior 2012 National Championships (CMS) 12 7 2013 National Championships (CMS) 7 Olympic Hopes Gymnasiade 5 5 8 4 2014 National Championships (MS) 5 6 European Championships 7 4 7 8 Student Spartakiada 4 Black Sea (99) 9 Youth Olympic Games 5 Senior 2015 National Championships 6 6 ITA-RUS-ROU-COL Friendly European Games 5 Rusudan Sikharulidze tournament Russian Cup 4 World Championships 4 15 6 Voronin Cup 2016 Stuttgart World Cup 4 National Championships 8 8 Osijek World Cup European Championships Russian Cup 4 4 6 Olympic Games 22 Joaquim Blume Memorial Elite Gym Massilia 13 6 7 Toyota International 8 2017 National Championships 4 8 2018 National Championships 7 2019 National Championships 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

1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-intlgymnast_1-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-intlgymnast_1-1) [***c***](#cite_ref-intlgymnast_1-2) Amanda Turner (6 August 2016). ["'International' Gymnasts at the Olympics"](https://web.archive.org/web/20160811135624/http://www.intlgymnast.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=4643:international-gymnasts-at-the-olympics&catid=104:2016-olympic-news&Itemid=316). *International Gymnast Magazine*. Archived from [the original](http://www.intlgymnast.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=4643:international-gymnasts-at-the-olympics&catid=104:2016-olympic-news&Itemid=316) on 11 August 2016. Retrieved 12 August 2016.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-2)** ["Seda Tutkhalyan won the all-around gold in the Candidate for Master of Sport category"](http://www.intlgymnast.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=3622:bondareva-polyashov-win-russian-junior-titles&catid=5:competition-reports&Itemid=221). Retrieved 26 April 2013.

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1. **[^](#cite_ref-4)** ["2nd Youth Olympic Games in Nanjing – Seda Tutkhalyan and Nikita Nagornyy from Russia are the most successful WAG and MAG gymnasts"](http://www.ueg.org/en/2nd-Youth-Olympic-Games-in-Nanjing---Seda-Tutkhalyan-and-Nikita-Nagornyy-from-Russia-are-the-most-successful-WAG-and-MAG-gymnasts-2014-08-25-0000). European Union of Gymnastics. Retrieved 25 August 2014.

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## External links

- [Seda Tutkhalyan](https://www.gymnastics.sport/site/athletes/bio_detail.php?id=38986) at [World Gymnastics](/source/World_Gymnastics)

- [Seda Tutkhalyan](http://sportgymrus.ru/sportsmans/tuthalyan-seda-gurgenovna/) [Archived](https://web.archive.org/web/20170704233829/http://sportgymrus.ru/sportsmans/tuthalyan-seda-gurgenovna/) 4 July 2017 at the [Wayback Machine](/source/Wayback_Machine) at sportgymrus.ru (in Russian)

- [Seda Tutkhalyan at the Nanjing 2014 Youth Olympic Games](https://web.archive.org/web/20140903072601/http://athlete.nanjing2014.org/html/22147_e.html) at the [Wayback Machine](/source/Wayback_Machine) (archived 3 September 2014)

- [Seda Tutkhalyan](https://olympics.com/en/athletes/seda-tutkhalyan) at [Olympics.com](/source/International_Olympic_Committee)

- [Seda Tutkhalyan](https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/131579) at [Olympedia](/source/Olympedia)

- [Seda Tutkhalyan](https://www.instagram.com/sedatutkhalian_13/) on [Instagram](/source/Instagram_(identifier))

v t e 2016 Russia Olympic Gymnastics Team Men's artistic gymnastics athletes Denis Ablyazin David Belyavskiy Nikolai Kuksenkov Nikita Nagornyy Ivan Stretovich Women's artistic gymnastics athletes Angelina Melnikova Aliya Mustafina Maria Paseka Daria Spiridonova Seda Tutkhalyan Rhythmic gymnastics athletes Individuals: Yana Kudryavtseva Margarita Mamun Group: Vera Biryukova Anastasia Bliznyuk Anastasia Maksimova Anastasia Tatareva Maria Tolkacheva Trampoline athletes Yana Pavlova Dmitry Ushakov Andrey Yudin

v t e European Champions in Artistic Gymnastics – Women's Team Competition 1994: Romania 1996: Romania 1998: Romania 2000: Russia 2002: Russia 2004: Romania 2006: Italy 2008: Romania 2010: Russia 2012: Romania 2014: Romania 2016: Russia 2018: Russia 2020: Ukraine 2022: Italy 2023: Great Britain 2024: Italy 2025: Italy 2016: Russia (RUS), Ksenia Afanasyeva, Angelina Melnikova, Aliya Mustafina, Daria Spiridonova, Seda Tutkhalyan

v t e Youth Olympics Champions in Artistic Gymnastics – Girl's All Around 2010: Viktoria Komova (RUS) 2014: Seda Tutkhalyan (RUS) 2018: Giorgia Villa (ITA)

v t e Youth Olympics Champions in Artistic Gymnastics – Girl's Uneven Bars 2010: Viktoria Komova (RUS) 2014: Seda Tutkhalyan (RUS) 2018: Ksenia Klimenko (RUS)

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