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Hovhannes Davtyan ( hy, Հովհաննես Դավթյան, born November 25, 1983, in Leninakan, Armenian SSR) is a former judoka and current head coach of the Armenian Men's Judo Team. He fights in the under 60 kg category, and is very tall compared to the other fighters in his weight division.


Early life

Hovhannes Davtyan was born on November 25, 1983, in Leninakan, Armenian SSR (now
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 ...
,
Armenia Armenia (), , group=pron officially the Republic of Armenia,, is a landlocked country in the Armenian Highlands of Western Asia.The UNbr>classification of world regions places Armenia in Western Asia; the CIA World Factbook , , and ' ...
). He began practicing judo at the age of 12 years under his current coach Karen Simonyan.


Career

Davtyan made his debut on the international stage in January 2005 at the World Cup in Tbilisi, where he took fifth place and left without a medal. In March of that year, at another stage of the World Cup tour in Tallinn, Davtyan, for the first time in his career, became a medal winner of the international competition, winning a silver medal. In October and November 2005, in preparation for the European Championship, Davtyan won second place at an international tournament in Sweden and won antologichnogo tournament in Finland. Held in Kyiv at the European Youth Championship, Davtyan took 5th place.


2006

2006 was, as a whole, not successful for the Armenian athlete. In March, at the World Cup in Prague, he lost in one of the circles of the decisive battle. Davtyan still got the opportunity to fight for the bronze medal. However, he lost and took fifth place.


2007

In 2007, Davtyan performed quite successfully. In January, at the World Cup in Tbilisi, the Armenian sportsman took third place. At the beginning of the next month, at the Super World Cup in Paris, he took fifth place. A few weeks later, at the end of February, at another stage of the Super World Cup in Paris, Davtyan won the tournament and won his first gold medal in the international arena. In April 2007, at the European Championships in Belgrade, Davtyan ranked second. A month later, at the next stage of the World Cup, held in Moscow, Davtyan won the gold medal. At the end of that year, Davtyan took second place at an international tournament in Yerevan and the International Cup in Tehran.


2008

At the beginning of 2008, at the World Cup in Tbilisi, Davtyan ranked fifth. In early February, at the Super World Cup in Paris, he came in seventh. At the Super World Cup, held in late February in Hamburg, he was third. In Lisbon, the European Championships, Davtyan finished seventh in the final. In the same year, as part of the Armenia national team, Davtyan went to the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. After winning in the first round against Cuba's
Yosmani Piker Yosmani Piker (born 26 April 1987 in Havana) is a male judoka from Cuba, who won the silver medal in the extra lightweight division (–60 kg) at the 2007 Pan American Games in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He represented his native country a ...
, he lost in the second round to North Korea's
Kim Kyong-Jin Kim Kyong-Jin (''also Kim Gyeong-Jin'', ko, 김 경진; born February 25, 1986) is a North Korean judoka, who played for the extra-lightweight category. He won two medals, silver and bronze, for the 60 kg division at the Asian Judo Champi ...
.


2009

On February 28, at the World Cup in Warsaw, Davtyan took second place. In May, he won the Grand Slam tournament, held in Moscow. In August, at the
2009 World Judo Championships The 2009 World Judo Championships was held in the Ahoy indoor sporting arena in Rotterdam, the Netherlands on 26 to 30 August. Women's heavyweight champion Tong Wen was stripped of her gold medal because of a doping offence, but was later reins ...
in Rotterdam, Davtyan was third. Then, in November, he won the championship of Armenia. At the end of the year, Davtyan went to the stage of the Grand Slam in Tokyo, where he finished fifth.


2010

In March 2010, Hovhannes Davtyan won the Cup of Armenia. At the 2010 European Judo Championships, held in Vienna, he ranked fifth. In November of the same year, at the Grand Prix in Abu Dhabi, Davtyan was third.


2011

In late January, at the World Cup in Tbilisi, Hovhannes Davtyan came third. In early February, at the Grand Slam tournament in Paris, he won second place. Then, a week later, at the World Cup in Budapest, he again came in second. A week later, on February 19, at the Grand Prix in Düsseldorf, Davtyan was in fifth. After seven days, the World Cup in Warsaw took place in late February, Davtyan came in second place. In May, at the Grand Slam tournament in Moscow, Davtyan was fifth, and in August at the
2011 World Judo Championships The 2011 World Judo Championships were held at the Palais Omnisports de Paris-Bercy in Paris, France from 23 to 28 August. Schedule Medal summary Men's events Women's events Medal table Participating nations 871 competitors from ...
in Paris, Davtyan came in seventh place. In that year, he gained the necessary ranking points to secure a ticket to the Olympic Games in London in 2012.


2012

On February 4, 2012, at the Grand Slam tournament in Paris, Davtyan was seventh. After that, at the
2012 European Judo Championships The 2012 European Judo Championships were held at the Traktor Ice Arena Traktor Ice Arena named after Valery Konsantinovich Belousov (), commonly shortened to Traktor Ice Arena, is an indoor sporting arena located in Chelyabinsk, Russia. I ...
in Chelyabinsk, Davtyan won a silver medal. In June, at the World Cup held in Prague, Davtyan came in second. At the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, Davtyan knocked out German Tobias Englmaier, Azeri Ilgar Mushkiyev and Kazakh Yerkebulan Kossayev. In the fight for the semi-finals, Davtyan narrowly lost to Italian Elio Verde. After this, Davtyan had the opportunity to compete for the Olympic bronze medal, but controversially lost to Frenchman Sofiane Milous and took seventh place. According to Karen Simonyan, Davtyan's coach, there were interference during his matches. He revealed Davtyan performed throws which should have been scored as a ‘yuko’ (a throw that places the opponent onto his side), but this did not happen. Also, Davtyan was groundlessly given a second warning, which gave a point to the opponent and Davtyan lost.


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