World champion and European champion in judo Arman Adamian on , he admitted that he had succeeded in the sport through hard work, not talent or luck.
Adamyan was born in Armenia in 1997, but his family soon moved to Volgograd. In 2022, the athlete left Volgograd and started competing for St. Petersburg. At the 2023 World Cup in Qatar, Arman won a gold medal in the weight category up to 100 kg, defeating two-time Czech Olympic champion Lukas Krpalek in the final.
– I have no talent. This happens to many: a sensitive and flexible person. I don’t have all that. I have a difficult job. I know that if I don’t work hard, I work hard, there will be no results. I need to work. I’m out of luck or anything. You just need to work and the result will not keep you waiting.
Everything I have now is thanks to my parents, thanks to the fact that we moved here. [в Волгоград из Армении], because my father brought us. If we had stayed there, I can’t say how everything would have happened, what I would have done. But I can say with certainty that I obviously would not be what I am today, the world judo champion. Obviously, I wouldn’t be an athlete, because in the village, no one really understands what sport is.
When I arrived, I didn’t know the Russian language thanks to the word “absolutely”. It was hard, during training the guys made fun of the fact that I was confusing the words “he” and “she”. It’s funny, it seems funny now. It’s good that now I know Russian perfectly.
I arrived here at the age of 10, my father sent me to judo. And here in Volgograd, at Dynamo, I started training. My father practiced wrestling in Armenia. And it turned out that he dreamed of me becoming a wrestling champion. I went to see it for about two years, I didn’t like it. For the first two years, my parents forced me to do it. I remember I won a competition in the region, they gave me a tape recorder for first place. I got excited, I got carried away. Little by little, I became interested. They started giving us belts: white, yellow, orange. They gave me yellow, but I thought I wanted black. At that moment I caught fire, I wanted to do this, do that,” Adamyan said in a special report by Maria Vasilyeva “The Talent of a Winner”.
Adamyan is the 2019 European champion and the winner of the 2019 European Games.
Source : MatchTV
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