ყველაზე ტიტულოვანი სომეხი სპორტსმენი ოლიმპიურ თამაშებში. (სამი ოქრო და ერთი ვერცხლი)
მართალია სომხეთმა დამოუკიდებლობა 1991 წელს მოიპოვა, თუმცა 1992 წლის ოლიმპიადაზე სომეხი სპორტსმენები საბჭოთა კავშირის სახელით გამოვიდნენ. სომხეთის ოლიმპიური კომიტეტი 1990 წელს შეიქმნა, საერთაშორისო ოლიმპიური კომიტეტის წევრი კი მხოლოდ 1993 წელს გახდა[16], ასე რომ, 1994 წელს ოლიმპიურ თამაშებზე სომხეთს საკუთარი წარმომადგენლობა ჰყავდა.
↑Spivey, Nigel (2005). The ancient Olympics. Oxford: Oxford University Press, გვ. 197. ISBN9780192806048. „One of the last recorded names of victors at Olympia is that of Varazdates, a Persian from Armenia who won the boxing title in 385 AD.“
↑Mandell, Richard D. (1987). The Nazi Olympics. Champaign: University of Illinois Press, გვ. 6. ISBN9780252013256. „Under the tolerant, assimilating Romans, the Olympics became polyglot and the last Olympic victor of whom we have record was an Armenian prince, Varaztad, who won a boxing match in A.D. 385.“
↑Trypanis, Constantine Athanasius (1964). Grooves in the wind. Chilmark Press, გვ. 7. „By a strange irony of fate the last recorded victor of the national (Olympic) games was Varazdates, a Persian Ascarid from Armenia, who won the boxing in a.d. 385.“
↑Baker, William Joseph (1988). Sports in the Western world, Rev., Urbana: University of Illinois Press, გვ. 40. ISBN9780252060427. „Fittingly, the last champion for whom there is evidence was not a Greek, but an Armenian boxer named Varaztad. Of royal blood, in 385 he triumphed at Olympia and later reigned for four years as King of Armenia at the behest of the Roman emperor.“
↑Lambros, Sp. P. (1896). The Olympic Games, B.C.776-A.D.1896: Part First. New York: American Olympic Committee, გვ. 8. „This explains how in the two hundred and ninety first Olympiad (385 B.C.) the victory was carried off by the Armenian pugilist, Varasdates, a descendant of the royal family of Arsacides, who became later the king of Armenia. This Varasdates was the last conqueror in the Olympic Games known to us.“
↑Scanlon, Thomas F. (2002). Eros and Greek Athletics. New York: Oxford University Press, გვ. 357. ISBN9780195348767. „Varazdates, a Persian Arsacid from Armenia who won in boxing in A.D. 369.“
↑Guttmann, Allen (2004). Sports: The First Five Millennia. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, გვ. 22. ISBN9781558496101. „The date of the last Olympic is as uncertain as the date of the first. Until quite recently, the last known victor was the Armenian prince Varazdat, who won the boxing competition in 369 A.D., but an inscription discovered at Olympia in 1994 gives the names of several athletes whose victories came as late as 385 A.D. If Theodosius I decreed an end to the Olympics in 394, as some scholars believe, then the last games took place in 393. (The evidence for this belief comes from an eleventh-century manuscript by Georgios Kedrenos.)“
↑ (2007) რედ. Wenn, Stephen R.; Schaus, Gerald P.: Onward to the Olympics : historical perspectives on the Olympic Games. Waterloo, Ontario: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, გვ. 5. ISBN978-0-88920-505-5. „Not only does the honour of being the last known Olympian no longer belong to Varazdat(es) of Armenia in AD 369, but it is significant for our understanding of the "end" of the Games that these latest Olympians came from Athens, not from distant parts if the ancient world.“
↑Littlewood, A.R. (2010). რედ. Wilson, Nigel: Encyclopedia of Ancient Greece. New York: Routledge, გვ. 515. ISBN978-0-415-87396-3. „Although the Roman conquest initially involved a vast diminution in the games' prestige, they now become open to at least some non-Greeks (the last known victor, of boxing in AD 369, was Varazdates, the crown prince of Armenia).“
↑Perrottet, Tony (2004). The Naked Olympics: The True Story of the Ancient Games. New York: Random House, გვ. 190. ISBN978-0-8129-6991-7. „A.D. 365 - The last Olympic victor on record is the Armenian prince Varazdate, who won the boxing in the 291st Olympiad. A.D. 393 - Last official Olympic Games (the 293rd). The victors' names are lost.“
↑Katvalian, Maksim (1985). რედ. Hambardzumyan, Viktor: Soviet Armenian Encyclopedia (hy). Yerevan: Armenian Encyclopedia. „Վարազդատը աղբյուրներում հայտնի է որպես բազմակողմանի զարգացած մարզիկ (ըստ Մովսես Խորենացու՝ կորովի նետաձիգ, ճարտար գազանամարտիկ, սուսերամարտիկ, ըմբշամարտիկ, բռնցքամարտիկ): Նրա անունը դրոշմվել է մարմարյա սալիկին՝ որպես վերջին օլիմպիադայի (393) չեմպիոնի:“
↑Nikita Simonyan. databaseOlympics.com. ციტირების თარიღი: 21 August 2012.
↑ 22.022.1Armenian father; see „'Rome 1960': Politics at play in Olympic Games“. Today. 7 July 2008. დაარქივებულია ორიგინალიდან — 8 თებერვალი 2012. ციტირების თარიღი: 21 August 2012. ციტატა: „His father, an Armenian-born discus thrower, and his mother, a Ukrainian volleyball player, had met at the Kiev State Institute of Physical Education, and both taught there while he was growing up.“
↑Stepan Sarkisyan. databaseOlympics.com. ციტირების თარიღი: 21 August 2012.
↑Armenian mother; see Manuela Maleeva–Female tennis player. events.bg. დაარქივებულია ორიგინალიდან — 24 დეკემბერი 2013. ციტატა: „The mother, who came from a prominent Armenian family, which found refuge in Bulgaria after the 1896 Armenian massacres in the Ottoman Empire, was the best Bulgarian tennis player in the 1960s.“ ციტირების თარიღი: 20 August 2012.
↑Manuela Maleeva. databaseOlympics.com. ციტირების თარიღი: 21 August 2012.
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