Harutyun Yenokyan ( hy, Հարություն Ենոքյան, born 5 July 1985) is an Armenian
Freestyle wrestler
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.
Yenokyan competed at the
2008 Summer Olympics
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in the
men's freestyle 84 kg division. He qualified by placing third at the Olympic Qualification Tournament in
Martigny
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,
Switzerland
). Swiss law does not designate a ''capital'' as such, but the federal parliament and government are installed in Bern, while other federal institutions, such as the federal courts, are in other cities (Bellinzona, Lausanne, Luzern, Neuchâtel ...
. He progressed to the quarterfinal round of the competition, where he lost to Georgia's
Revaz Mindorashvili, who was able to score four points at the end of the second period. Because Mindorashvili advanced further into the final match against Tajikistan's
Yusup Abdusalomov, Yenokyan was given another chance at a bronze medal through a repechage bout, in which he lost to Germany's
Davyd Bichinashvili, with a technical score of 3–4 and a classification score of 1–3.
References
External links
FILA Profile
1985 births
Living people
Sportspeople from Yerevan
Armenian male sport wrestlers
Olympic wrestlers for Armenia
Wrestlers at the 2008 Summer Olympics
21st-century Armenian people
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