Place of Birth. Education. Born in Leninakan, Armenia. In 1999 he moved to Zaporozhye, where he graduated from the Zaporozhye Law Institute of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Faculty of Physical Education of ZNU. Serviceman State Border Service of Ukraine (Ensign).
General information. Height – 170 cm. Weight category – 66 kg.
In favor of the sports society “Dynamo” (Zaporozhye).
Coaches – Vadim Kisil, Evgeniy Chertkov. The first coach is Murat Sargsyan.
Regalia. Honored Master of Sports. Bronze medalist at the Beijing Olympics, three-time World Championship silver medalist and two-time European champion.
2003 World Championship – 2nd place.
European Championship 2004 – 1st place.
At the XXVIII Olympiad in Athens in 2004, he took 5th place in his weight category.
European Championship 2008 – 1st place.
Bronze medalist at the XXIX Olympic Games in Beijing 2008. Defeated Bulgarian Nikolai Gergov with a score of 17:14.
In 2010 – the 2010 World Championship in Moscow – 2nd place. In the 1/16 finals, Armena defeated the current Olympic champion Steve Geno (France), then defeated the Serb Alexander Maksimovich, the American Faruk Sahin and the Turk Vasif Arzimanov. In the final, Armen lost to Russian Ambako Vachadze (0:1, 0:2).
In 2011 – World Cup 2011 in Istanbul – In 1/32 lost to the Portuguese Hugo Passos 1-2.
Until 2012, he mainly performed in the category up to 66 kg, since 2014 he has been performing mainly in the category up to 71 kg.
In October 2010, Armen organized and held a Greco-Roman wrestling tournament in the school age category. The tournament was attended by 90 children from Zaporozhye, who were divided into three age categories: 95-96 years of birth, 97-98 years of birth. and born 99-2000. In 2012, 136 participants from Zaporozhye and Dnepropetrovsk took part in the tournament. The tournament was also held in 2014.
In 2015 – World Championship 2015 in Las Vegas – 2nd place.
Politics. Participated in the elections to the Zaporozhye Regional Council in 2010 from the Front of Changes (second on the list).
In 2012, he ran for deputies of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine from the Batkivshchyna party in constituency No. 76. Armen Vardanyan did not go to the Verkhovna Rada, taking fourth place.
He acted as a confidant of Nikolai Frolov, a candidate for people’s deputies of Ukraine of the VIII convocation from the Petro Poroshenko Bloc (2014). After Frolov was elected a deputy, Armen Vardanyan was his assistant-consultant on a voluntary basis, director of Frolov’s charitable foundation “Zaporozhye Perspective”.
Awards. Order “For Courage” III degree (September 4, 2008) – for achieving high sports results at the XXIX Summer Olympic Games in Beijing (People’s Republic of China), showing courage, dedication and the will to win, raising the international prestige of Ukraine.
Family status. Single.
Hobby. Solving crossword puzzles.
November 26, 2024