Albert Azaryan

Albert Azaryan Ալբերտ Ազարյան
Personal information
Born	(1929-02-11)11 February 1929 Martunashen, Armenian SSR, Transcaucasian SFSR, USSR
Died	5 September 2023(2023-09-05) (aged 94) Yerevan, Armenia
Height	5 ft 9 in (175 cm)
Gymnastics career
Discipline	Men's artistic gymnastics
Country represented	Armenia
Former countries represented	Soviet Union
Club	Spartak Yerevan
Medal record Olympic Games 1956 Melbourne Rings 1956 Melbourne Team competition 1960 Rome Rings 1960 Rome Team competition World Championships 1954 Rome Rings 1954 Rome Team competition 1958 Moscow Rings 1958 Moscow Team competition 1958 Moscow Horizontal Bar European Championships 1955 Frankfurt Rings 1955 Frankfurt Parallel bars 1955 Frankfurt Individual 1955 Frankfurt High bars

Albert Azaryan (Armenian: Ալբերտ Ազարյան; 11 February 1929 – 5 September 2023) was a Soviet and Armenian artistic gymnast who competed internationally representing the Soviet Union. He was the 1956 and 1960 Olympic Champion on the still rings. Azaryan was the first gymnast to become an Olympic Champion in rings twice, a feat that Akinori Nakayama would also accomplish twelve years later and that no one else has matched since. He was the first person to do one of the rings most famous variations of the Iron Cross called the Azaryan Cross (not to be confused with the Azarian Roll to Cross), which incorporates a quarter turn to the side.