Alfred Ter-Mkrtchyan is a former Armenian Greco-Roman wrestler for the Soviet Union, Unified Team, and Germany.
14 Facts About Alfred Ter-Mkrtchyan
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Alfred Ter-Mkrtchyan is an Olympic silver medalist and European Champion for the Unified Team and World Champion for Germany.
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Alfred Ter-Mkrtchyan won the Junior European Championships in 1990 and competed as a senior from then on.
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Alfred Ter-Mkrtchyan became a member of the Soviet national Greco-Roman wrestling team soon afterward.
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Alfred Ter-Mkrtchyan later went with his parents to the United States.
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Sabejew recommended him to the German Federal Government and, in 1993, Alfred Ter-Mkrtchyan received German citizenship with the help of the Chairman of German wrestling club VfK Schifferstadt, Litzenburger Robert, who had good relations with various government authorities.
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Alfred Ter-Mkrtchyan continued to have a successful wrestling career in Germany.
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Alfred Ter-Mkrtchyan won a gold medal at the 1994 World Wrestling Championships in Tampere.
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Alfred Ter-Mkrtchyan became the first German to become a World Wrestling Champion at bantamweight.
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Alfred Ter-Mkrtchyan competed at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, but didn't win a medal.
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Alfred Ter-Mkrtchyan returned to the Olympics a third time at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney.
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Alfred Ter-Mkrtchyan made it to the quarterfinals, where he was defeated by eventual gold medalist Sim Kwon-Ho of South Korea.
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Alfred Ter-Mkrtchyan's sporting ambitions were slowed by knee surgery in early 2001.
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Alfred Ter-Mkrtchyan often had injury problems during the further course of his career.