Artur Dalaloyan

Personal life

Dalaloyan was born in Tiraspol, Moldova to an Armenian father and a Russian mother, and has a younger brother. His family moved to Russia, and he began gymnastics at age six in Novosibirsk, relocating to Moscow a year later to train under Aleksandr Kalinin.

His father left when he was young and is not in contact. As a schoolboy, he performed as a backup dancer for Russia's Junior Eurovision entrant in 2007. He married Olga Borodina after proposing in 2019; they have two daughters, Nicole (born 2019) and Karolina (born 2021), and Olga has a son, Stepan, from a previous relationship.

Career

In his junior career, Dalaloyan won bronze in the all-around at the 2013 Russian Junior Nationals and team gold at the 2013 Gymnasiade. He competed in the Russian Championships in 2015 and 2016 but was not selected for the 2016 Rio Olympics. He won all-around gold at the Voronin Cup in December 2016. In 2017, he became Russian National all-around champion, then at his first major senior event, the 2017 European Championships, he won all-around silver and vault gold.

At the 2017 Russian Cup, he took team gold, placed fourth in the all-around, and won vault gold (tied with Nikita Nagornyy) and two silver medals. In 2018, Dalaloyan became all-around World Champion, the first Russian to do so since 1999, after tie-breaking rules gave him the title over Xiao Ruoteng. He also won gold on floor exercise, silver on vault, and bronze on parallel bars at those championships, and received the Longines Prize for Elegance.

At the 2019 European Championships, he placed second all-around, first on floor, and third on vault and high bar. At the 2019 World Championships, he helped Russia win its first team gold and earned all-around silver behind Nagornyy. He competed at the Olympics for the Russian Olympic Committee alongside Denis Ablyazin, David Belyavskiy, and Nikita Nagornyy.