Background
Aghasi Manukyan was born February 27, 1967 in Leninakan, Armenian Soviet Socialist Republic.
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Manukyan earned the Honoured Master of Sports of the USSRMaster of Sports of International Class title in 1987. He started wrestling in 1977 under the coaching of Aram Sargsyan. Manukyan was recruited into the Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics national Greco-Roman wrestling team in 1988.
That same year, he came in first place at the FILA Wrestling World Cup team competition.
After Armenia gained its independence from the Soviet Union, Manukyan began representing his native country. He also competed at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta.
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. Since 2011, he has worked at the Olympic training center located in Marquette.
Achievements
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He is a World Cup winner and World Champion. In 1984 he won the Youth European Championships and in 1987 he won the Youth World Championships. Manukyan won a gold medal at the 1993 World Wrestling Championships in his debut as an Armenian wrestler. Manukyan is the first ever wrestler from the independent Republic of Armenia to become a Wrestling World Champion in either Greco-Roman or freestyle wrestling. He is 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 Championships in 1994 and 1995. His brother Michael (b 1964) was a Soviet Champion and European Youth Champion of the Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics in Greco-Roman wrestling and his brother Samvel (b 1974) was a Champion of Armenia and fellow Olympian at the 1996 Summer Olympics.
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