1. Seda Gurgenovna Tutkhalyan is a Russian artistic gymnast.
14 Facts About Seda Tutkhalyan
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Seda Tutkhalyan is the 2014 Youth Olympic Games Individual All-around champion and a 2016 Summer Olympics Team silver medalist.
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Seda Tutkhalyan's father, Gurgen Tutkhalyan, was a four-time world champion for the Soviet Union in sambo martial arts, and her older brother, Vaik, currently competes for Belarus in the same sport.
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Seda Tutkhalyan 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.
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Seda Tutkhalyan 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.
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In June, Seda Tutkhalyan was named to the Russian team for the 2015 European Games in Baku, with Aliya Mustafina and Viktoria Komova.
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Seda Tutkhalyan won the gold medal with the team, and posted the second-highest all-around score in qualification, 57.332.
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Seda 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.
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Seda Tutkhalyan was named to the Russian team for the 2015 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships.
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Seda Tutkhalyan helped her team to a 4th-place finish and individually qualified to the all-around and balance beam finals.
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Seda Tutkhalyan was named to the team at the European Championships and contributed to the Russian team's gold medal finish; however, she did not make any individual finals.
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Seda Tutkhalyan was named to the Russian Olympic team after Ksenia Afanasyeva's health problems relegated the latter gymnast to alternate and later forced her retirement from gymnastics.
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In qualifications, Seda Tutkhalyan competed the all-around and qualified in 4th place to the all-around final with a score of 58.207.
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Seda Tutkhalyan had not made any event finals, although she was second reserve for the vault final.