Hamlet Manukyan (born 22 August 2007) is an Armenian
artistic gymnast
Artistic gymnastics is a discipline of gymnastics in which athletes perform short routines on different types of apparatus. The sport is governed by the Fédération Internationale de Gymnastique (FIG), which assigns the '' Code of Points'' used ...
. He is the
2023 Junior World Champion on pommel horse and rings as well as the
2025 European Champion on the former.
Personal life
Manukyan was born in Armenia in 2007. His father had him start gymnastics training when he was five years old.
Junior gymnastics career
Manukyan competed at the
2022 European Championships
The 2022 European Championships were the second edition of the European Championships (multi-sport event), European Championships. It was a multi-sport event which took place in Munich, Germany from 11 to 21 August 2022. The event started three d ...
where he placed thirteenth in the all-around. During event finals he won silver on both pommel horse and rings.
In late March, Manukyan competed at the
2023 Junior World Championships alongside
Erik Baghdasaryan and
Mamikon Khachatryan. As a team they finished fourth, 0.437 points behind third place Italy. Individually Manukyan qualified to the all-around, pommel horse, and rings event finals. During the all-around final Manukyan finished sixth. During apparatus event finals Manukyan won gold on both pommel horse and rings. Manukyan next competed at the
2023 European Youth Olympic Festival alongside Khachatryan and
Robert Gyulumyan; together they won bronze as a team and individually Manukyan finished ninth in the all-around and qualified to the pommel horse and rings event finals. During event finals he finished fourth on pommel horse despite falling off the apparatus and won gold on rings.
Manukyan competed at the
2024 European Championships where he won gold on pommel horse.
Senior gymnastics career
2025
Manukyan became age-eligible for senior level competition in 2025. He made his senior debut at the
Cottbus World Cup. Despite qualifying to the pommel horse final in first place, during the final he fell off the apparatus and finished eighth. Manukyan next competed at the World Cups in Osijek, Doha, and Cairo, winning gold on pommel horse at all three.
At the
2025 European Championships Manukyan won gold on pommel horse, becoming the third Armenian to win the title on the apparatus after
Harutyun Merdinyan
Harutyun Merdinyan (; born August 16, 1984) is an Armenian male artistic gymnast and a member of the national team. A pommel horse specialist, he is a two-time European champion from 2016 and 2022 and a two-time world championships bronze medalis ...
(2016, 2022) and
Artur Davtyan
Artur Vahrami Davtyan (, born August 8, 1992) is an Armenian gymnast. He is the 2020 Olympic bronze medalist, 2024 Olympic silver medalist and the 2022 World Champion in vault. He is also the 2019 European Games vault champion and is an eigh ...
(2021).
Competitive history
References
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2007 births
Living people
Armenian male artistic gymnasts
21st-century Armenian sportsmen
People from Vagharshapat
Medalists at the Junior World Artistic Gymnastics Championships
Medalists at the 2023 European Youth Summer Olympic Festival