Sirvard Emirzyan

Sirvard Emirzyan (Armenian: Սիրվարդ Էմիրզյան, born 5 June 1966 in Yerevan, Armenian SSR) is a former Soviet diver of Armenian descent. She was awarded the Honoured Master of Sports of the USSR title in 1980.

Sirvard Emirzyan Diving From a 10 Meter Platform
Sirvard Emirzyan and Yurik Vardanyan at the 1980 Olympics
Olympic medal record
Women's Diving
Representing  Soviet Union
1980 Moscow10 m platform

Sirvard started to practice diving in 1972 under the teaching of Basil Kuvshinkina. She became a Champion of the USSR in 1979 in the pole ten-meter platform, and in 1980, finished Second in the same discipline. Emirzyan, a schoolgirl at the time, competed at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow as the youngest athlete on the USSR Olympic team. At the age of 14, she won an Olympic silver medal on the 10 meter platform.[1]

References

  1. ФЕНОМЕНАЛЬНЫЙ ПОКАЗАТЕЛЬ ЮРИЯ ВАРДАНЯНА (in Russian). www.azg.am. Retrieved 6 February 2013.
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