Arsen Zhorayevich Galstyan is an Armenian-Russian judoka.
Background
Arsen Galstyan was born on February 19, 1989 in the village of Nerkin Karmiraghbyur in the north-east of Armenian Soviet Socialist Republic. His father was a football player, he played for the club Impuls Football Club Dilijan in the second half of the 1970s and later played as a part of Football Club Ararat Yerevan.
Education
He studied at the School № 4 of the village and started judo at a local sports club In 2007, he finished third at the Russian National Championship and, in the same year, he first represented Russia internationally.
Career
While living in Armenia, Galstyan played the drums in the national ensemble. When he was seven, his family moved to Russia and settled in the stanitsa village of Giaginskaya, Adygea. That"s just not always judo.
Galstyan first played volleyball, then football, before judo.
Igor Romanov was the first coach Arsen and is still his personal trainer. Galstyan later moved to Krasnodar, where he currently lives.
He worked as a junior inspector of security detention center № 1 FPS in Russia"s Krasnodar region. Galstyan was a student in the sports department of the Kabardino-Balkarian State University.
Galstyan competed at the 2012 Summer Olympics in the Men"s -60 kg division.
Galstyan was an underdog and found himself fighting all of the favorites. Finally, Arsen Galstyan and Hiroaki Hiraoka fought in the finals. Galstyan defeated Hiraoka with an ippon after 41 seconds.
Galstyan scored the ippon as he was about to fall victim to an ippon of Hiraoka"son
He dedicated his victory to the victims of the flood in the Krasnodar region. R-Sport News Agency named Galstyan Russia’s second most successful athlete for 2012.
He was also ranked in Russia"s top ten athletes of 2012 by the Russian Sports Journalists Federation. He is already thinking about a new goal - the next Olympic Games.
Membership
He has been a member of the Russian national judo team since 2007.