Career
Hayrapetyan was named an Honoured Master of Sports of the Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics in 1984. His position was guard. He is the father of Levon Hayrapetyan.
Sos Hayrapetyan"s first passion was football.
He only started to pursue field hockey seriously in 1976. Within a few years, he had grown into one of the leading Soviet players.
He started his career in 1978 at SKA (Sverdlovsk). From 1981 to 1987, he played for the club Dynamo (Alma-Ata).
From 1988 to 1992, he was a player of hockey club Hrazdan (Razdan).
From 1978 to 1991, Hayrapetyan was part of the Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics national field hockey team In those years, the Soviet national hockey team had great success in its early history. Subsequently, coach Eduard Eirich celebrated the confident game line of defense of his team, highlighting the unmistakable game of Hayrapetyan and Farit Zigangirov during this tournament.
In 1984, due to the decision of the Soviet political leadership to boycott the 1984 Summer Olympics, the Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics Olympic team could not perform at the Olympics.
Instead, the Soviet athletes competed at the Friendship Games, where the Soviet national field hockey team came in first place. All the players of the team were awarded the title of Honored Master of Sports for their victory.
The team came in tenth place. In 1992, Sos Hayrapetyan moved to the German city of Hamburg and, from 1992 to 2004, played for the field hockey club from the city, Uhlenhorster The Human Context. In 2004, after winning silver medals at the club championship in Germany, Hayrapetyan came to coaching.