Aghasi Manukyan

Aghasi Manukyan (Armenian: Աղասի Մանուկյան, 27 February 1967 – 19 March 2018) was an Armenian Greco-Roman wrestler. He was a World Cup winner and World Champion. Manukyan earned the Honoured Master of Sports of the USSR Master of Sports of International Class title in 1987.

Aghasi Manukyan
Personal information
Born(1967-03-27)27 March 1967
Leninakan, Armenian SSR, Soviet Union
Died19 March 2018(2018-03-19) (aged 51)
Marquette, Michigan, U.S.
Height1.65 m (5 ft 5 in)
Weight60 kg (130 lb)
Sport
SportWrestling
Event(s)Greco-Roman
Coached byAram Sargsyan
Medal record
Men's Greco-Roman wrestling
Representing  Armenia
World Championships
1993 Stockholm57 kg
European Championships
1994 Athens62 kg
1995 Besançon57 kg
Representing  Soviet Union
World Cup
1988 Athens57 kg

Biography

Aghasi Manukyan was born 27 February 1967 in Leninakan (now Gyumri), Soviet Armenia. He started wrestling in 1977 under the coaching of Aram Sargsyan. In 1984 he won the Espoir European Championships and in 1987 he won the Espoir World Championships. Manukyan was recruited into the USSR national Greco-Roman wrestling team in 1988. That same year, he came in first place at the Wrestling World Cup team competition.

After Armenia gained its independence from the Soviet Union, Manukyan began representing his native country. Manukyan won a gold medal at the 1993 World Wrestling Championships in his debut as an Armenian wrestler. Manukyan was the first ever wrestler from the independent Republic of Armenia to become a Wrestling World Champion in either Greco-Roman or freestyle wrestling. He was also the second athlete to become a World Champion under the flag of Armenia, after Nshan Munchyan. Manukyan won two silver medals at the European Wrestling Championships in 1994 and 1995. He also competed at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta.[1]

In 1996, he finished his wrestling career and began coaching. Manukyan coached the Armenian national junior Greco-Roman wrestling team from 1998 to 1999. From 2001 to 2004, he worked in the Sports Committee of the Shirak region of Armenia. In 2006, he moved to the United States. After 2011, he worked at the Olympic training center located in Marquette.[2]

Personal life

Aghasi has two brothers who are also wrestlers. His brother Michael (born 1964) was a Soviet Champion and European Youth Champion of the USSR in Greco-Roman wrestling and his brother Samvel (born 1974) was a Champion of Armenia and fellow Olympian at the 1996 Summer Olympics.

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References
  1. Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Aghasi Manukyan". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020.
  2. "Olympian coaches at USOEC". MiningJournal.net. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 6 November 2012.


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