The impressive artistic gymnast Artur Dalaloyan is a 9x World medalist and a 5x European champion. He was part of the Russian team who won Gold at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics and at the 2019 World Championships. Known as King Artur, he is also the 2018 World all-around champion.
Born and raised in Moldova, and later in Russia, Dalaloyan started gymnastics when he was six-years-old, and by the age of 17 he was competing in the 2013 Russian Junior Nationals. He started his senior career in 2015, but wasn’t picked to represented his adopted country at the 2016 Rio Olympics. However, the following year he made his mark by claiming the Gold for vault at the 2017 European Championships.
Dalaloyan became the all-around world champion in 2018, winning Gold in that event as well as Gold in the floor exercise, Silver in vault, Bronze in parallel bars, and a Team Silver at the World Championships. The same year saw him crowned European champion for vault and parallel bars when he won Gold in both events, as well as Bronze in floor exercise and Team Gold. He helped his Team to a World Championships Gold in 2019, as well as picking up two individual Silvers and a Bronze. He was also named European champion that year, winning Gold in floor exercise, as well as picking up a Silver and two Bronzes at the European Championships. He competed at the delayed 2020 Tokyo Olympics under the ROC flag, helping his team to win Gold.
Dalaloyan regularly connects with his hundreds of thousands of followers and fans through Instagram, and TikTok, posting pictures and videos of his life around gymnastics.
