Armen Martirosyan ( hy, Արմեն Մարտիրոսյան, born 6 August 1969 in
Leninakan
Gyumri ( hy, Գյումրի, ) is an urban municipal community and the second-largest city in Armenia, serving as the administrative center of Shirak Province in the northwestern part of the country. By the end of the 19th century, when the city w ...
,
Shirak
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Places
*Shirak Province, administrative division of Armenia
*Shirak, Armenia, village in Shirak Province, Armenia
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,
Armenian SSR
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) is a retired
Armenia
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n
triple jump
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er. He came in fifth place at the
1996 Summer Olympics
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and also competed at the
2000 Summer Olympics
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and
2004 Summer Olympics
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in the men's triple jump. Martirosyan won a
bronze medal
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at the
1996 European Indoor Championships in
Stockholm
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.
His personal best triple jump is 17.41 metres, achieved in June 1998 in
Gyumri
Gyumri ( hy, Գյումրի, ) is an urban municipal community and the second-largest city in Armenia, serving as the administrative center of Shirak Province in the northwestern part of the country. By the end of the 19th century, when the city w ...
. His personal best triple jump indoors is 17.21 metres, achieved on 17 January 1999 in
Yerevan
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. Both of these are the
Armenian records.
Achievements
See also
*
Armenian records in athletics
References
External links
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1969 births
Living people
Sportspeople from Gyumri
Armenian male triple jumpers
Armenian male long jumpers
Athletes (track and field) at the 1996 Summer Olympics
Athletes (track and field) at the 2000 Summer Olympics
Athletes (track and field) at the 2004 Summer Olympics
Olympic athletes for Armenia
World Athletics Championships athletes for Armenia
Universiade medalists in athletics (track and field)
Universiade silver medalists for Armenia
Medalists at the 1995 Summer Universiade
20th-century Armenian people
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