Background
Arman Yeremyan was born on January 29, 1986 in Yerevan, Armenian Soviet Socialist Republic.
Arman Yeremyan was born on January 29, 1986 in Yerevan, Armenian Soviet Socialist Republic.
Yeremyan has been awarded the Master of Sport of Armenia, International Class title. He took up taekwondo under Arsen Avetisyan. Yeremyan"s most significant success was his gold medal victory at the 2008 European Taekwondo Championships in Rome in the men"s welterweight (78 kg) division.
Yeremyan was the flag bearer for Armenia at the 2012 Summer Olympics and is the fifth ever Olympian to bear the flag of Armenia at the Summer Olympics.
Albert Azaryan was originally intended to bear the flag of Armenia at the 2012 Olympics, but the decision was changed due to his age and the honor was passed onto Yeremyan instead. At the tournament, he defeated eventual 2012 Olympic silver medalist Nicolás García and Tommy Mollet.
Yeremyan also became the first taekwondo practitioner from Armenia to compete at the Olympics. In the first round of the 2012 Summer Olympics, Yeremyan beat Canadian Sébastien Michaud, avenging an earlier loss to Michaud.
Yeremyan defeated Dutchman Tommy Mollet once again in the quarterfinals.
In the semifinals, Yeremyan narrowly lost by one point to Sebastián Crismanich of Argentina. Yeremyan previously defeated Crismanich in an earlier match. Yeremyan next lost the bronze medal match because of controversial scoring to Lutalo Muhammad of the host nation Great Britain in a fight where many of Yeremyan kicks weren"t counted and many of Muhammad"s shouldn"t have been.
Yeremyan, who scored a head kick in the final seconds that went uncounted, stood confused after the match was over.
He came in fifth place.