Seda Tutkhalyan

Seda Tutkhalyan
— Gymnast —
Full name	Seda Gurgenovna Tutkhalyan
Country represented	Russia
Born	(1999-07-15) 15 July 1999 Gyumri, Armenia
Residence	Moscow, Russia
Discipline	Women's artistic gymnastics
Level	Senior International Elite
Head coach(es)	Marina Ulyankina
Assistant coach(es)	I.A. Kiryanova, V.N. Ulyankin
Medal record Representing Russia European Games 2015 Baku Team 2015 Baku Vault Youth Olympic Games 2014 Nanjing All-Around 2014 Nanjing Uneven Bars 2014 Nanjing Floor Exercise

Seda Gurgenovna Tutkhalyan (Russian: Седа Гургеновна Тутхалян; Armenian: Սեդա Գուրգենի Թութխալյան, born 15 July 1999) is a senior elite Russian artistic gymnast. She is the 2014 Youth Olympic Games All-around champion.

Personal life

Tutkhalyan was born 15 July 1999 in Gyumri, Armenia. Her father, Gurgen Tutkhalyan, was a four-time world champion in sambo of the Soviet Union, and her older brother, Vae, currently competes for Belarus in sambo wrestling.

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. 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. Her international debut came that winter, at the 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.

In 2014, she competed at the Russian Championships in April, winning vault gold, team, all-around, and uneven bars silver, and placing fifth on beam and sixth on floor. She competed at the European 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. In early July, she competed at the Student Spartakiada, winning team, all-around, and vault gold, uneven bars bronze, and placed fourth on floor. She was then selected to represent Russia at the 2014 Youth Olympic Games in Nanjing, China. There, she won the all-around and uneven bars, silver on floor exercise, and placed fifth on vault.

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.

In June, Tutkhalyan was named to the Russian team for the 2015 European Games in Baku, with Aliya Mustafina and Viktoria Komova. Tutkhalyan won the gold medal with the team, and posted the second-highest all-around score in qualification, 57.332. 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, and for the balance beam final in first place with a score of 14.600.

Tutkhalyan was named to the Russian team for the 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.

In April 1-10, 2016; Tutkhalyan competed at the 2016 Russian Artistic Gymnastics Championships taking silver in all-around, team and won gold in vault finals. On April 30-May 1, she competed at the Osijek World Cup where she won silver in uneven bars and bronze in balance beam finals.

Competitive history

Year	Event	Team	AA	VT	UB	BB	FX
2012	National Championships (Junior) (CMS)		12th			7th
2013	National Championships (Junior) (CMS)	1st	1st	1st	1st	7th	3rd
	Olympic Hopes	1st	2nd	1st			2nd
	Gymnasiade	1st	5th	5th	8th	4th	3rd
2014	National Championships (Junior) (MS)	2nd	2nd	1st	2nd	5th	6th
	European Championships (Junior)	1st	7th	4th		7th	8th
	Student Spartakiada	1st	1st	1st	3rd		4th
	Black Sea (99)		9th		2nd	1st	1st
	Youth Olympic Games		1st	5th	1st		2nd
2015	National Championships	2nd	3rd	3rd	6th	3rd	6th
	ITA-RUS-ROU-COL Friendly	1st	1st
	European Games	1st		2nd		5th
	Rusudan Sikharulidze tournament	1st	2nd	2nd		1st
	Russian Cup	1st	2nd	2nd	2nd		4th
	World Championships	4th	15th			6th
	Voronin Cup						1st
2016	Stuttgart World Cup		4th
	National Championships	2nd	2nd	1st		8th	8th
	Osijek World Cup				2nd	3rd

Year	Competition Description	Location	Apparatus	Rank-Final	Score-Final	Rank-Qualifying	Score-Qualifying
2014	Youth Olympics 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

External links

• Seda Tutkhalyan at Fédération Internationale de Gymnastique
• Nanjing 2014 YOG Profile
• Gymnastics Results