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In One Shot: The happy night of Olympic medalists


Photo: E. Grigoryan's personal archive


Armenia sent 5 athletes to the 1992 Olympics in Barcelona. Four of them returned with medals.

This edition of Mediamax Sport’s In One Shot series is about the photo of happy Olympic Champions Israel Militosyan, Mnatsakan Iskandaryan, Hrachya Petikyan and silver medalist Alfred Ter-Mkrtchyan.

Armenian National Olympic Committee staffer Edvin Grigoryan tells the story.

I cannot recall who took the picture. Mnatsakan gave it to me one day, so I made an enlarged copy that I keep.

I remember it was a party in Gyumri we organized for the boys. We had many guests, everyone happy that our country managed to win medals in those hard times. The party was a success, and the photo turned out very spontaneous and happy.

Israel Militosyan, winner of the first medal

Only two people met us in Yerevan when we returned from the Olympics. The situation was very different in Gyumri, it was a real feast. I didn’t expect such spirit and joy after the earthquake. I was proud that my city lived again, what I felt cannot be converted into words. I realized that I did an important job and brought smiles onto people’s faces.

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