Career
He is 165 cm tall. Gevorg Davtyan started weightlifting in 1994 under the honored coach of Armenia, Vahan Bichakhchyan. Davtyan repeated this success a year later. After that, Davtyan began to compete in adult competitions.
Davtyan became an Olympic bronze medalist in the 77 kg category at the 2008 Summer Olympics with a total of 360 kg.
At a press conference afterwards for the division medalists, Davtyan announced "I want to offer my medal to Anatoly Khrapaty"s memory who died some day ago. Following an unsuccessful proformence at the 2010 World Weightlifting Championships, Davtyan left the Armenian national weightlifting team
