High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Due to historical and political reasons, only a small portion of Armenian athletes have competed for Armenia. Armenian kings Varazdat (Varasdates) and Tiridates III were recorded as champions in the Ancient Olympic Games at the 265th Olympiad (177 A.D.) and 291st Olympiad (281 A.D.), respectively. The first Armenians to participate in modern Olympics were Mkrtich Mkryan and Vahram Papazyan from the Ottoman Empire. Both competed in athletics at the 1912 Stockholm Games. The first Armenian to win a medal was Hal Haig Prieste, a son of Armenian immigrants, who won a bronze medal in diving at the 1920 Antwerp Games for the United States. Soviet Armenian gymnast Hrant Shahinyan became the first Armenian gold medalist of the modern Olympics in 1952. Данное издание представляет собой компиляцию сведений, находящихся в свободном доступе в среде Интернет в целом, и в информационном сетевом ресурсе "Википедия" в частности. Собранная по частотным...