Background
Her father, Gurgen Tutkhalyan, was a four-time world champion in sambo of the Soviet Union, and her older brother, Vae, currently competes for Belarus in sambo wrestling.
Her father, Gurgen Tutkhalyan, was a four-time world champion in sambo of the Soviet Union, and her older brother, Vae, currently competes for Belarus in sambo wrestling.
2013 was Tutkhalyan"s breakout year. In 2014, She competed at the Russian Championships in April, winning vault gold, team, all-around, and uneven bars silver, and placing fifth on beam and sixth on floor. In early July, she competed at the Student Spartakiada, winning team, all-around, and vault gold, uneven bars bronze, and placed fourth on floor.
She was then selected to represent Russia at the 2014 Youth Olympic Games in Nanjing, China.
Tutkhalyan became a senior elite gymnast in 2015. In June, Tutkhalyan was named to the Russian team for the 2015 European Games in Baku, with Aliya Mustafina and Viktoria Komova.
However, the highest score was by her teammate Mustafina and only one gymnast per country could advance to the final at these games. Tutkhalyan did qualify for the vault final in second place with a score of 14.466 for two vaults, and for the balance beam final in first place with a score of 14.600.