Arutik Rubenian
{{Short description|Armenian-Greek Greco Roman wrestler}}
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| coach = Aram Sargsyan
Dimitrios Moraitis
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{{MedalCompetition|European Championships}}
{{MedalSilver|1994 Athens|57 kg}}
{{MedalCompetition|Mediterranean Games}}
{{MedalBronze|1997 Bari|63 kg}}
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{{MedalCompetition|European Championships}}
{{MedalBronze|1988 Kolbotn|62 kg}}
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{{MedalGold|1990 Gothenburg|62 kg}}
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Arutik (Aristeidis) Rubenian ({{langx|el|Αριστείδης Ρουμπενιαν}}, born 5 June 1966) is a retired Armenian-Greek Greco Roman wrestler. He is a two-time European Championship medalist, five-time Greek Champion, Soviet Champion, World Cup winner, and Olympic participant.
Biography
Arutik Rubenian was born on 5 July 1966 to an Armenian family in Tselinograd (now Astana), Soviet Kazakhstan. In 1969 his family moved to Leninakan (now Gyumri), Soviet Armenia, where at the age of 9 he started practicing Greco-Roman wrestling under the guidance of Aram Sargsyan. He became a 1984 Junior European Champion and 1985 Espoir World Champion. In 1988 he won a bronze medal at the European Wrestling Championships and came in first at the Soviet Championship. As part of the Soviet national team he won gold in 1990 and silver in 1991 at the Wrestling World Cup.
In 1992 he moved to Greece and later played for the country under the name of Aristidis Rubenian. He won a bronze medal at the 1994 European Championships, competed at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, and won a bronze medal at the 1997 Mediterranean Games.
He has been coaching since 2000. From 2000 to 2009 (with a short break) Rubenian was one of the coaches of the Greece national team and trained European Champion and Olympic medalist Artiom Kiouregkian. Since February 2012, he works as a trainer in the wrestling club "Makedones evosmoc" from the city of Thessaloniki.
References
- {{cite web|title=Aristidis Roumbenian|url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ro/aristidis-roumbenian-1.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200418073015/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ro/aristidis-roumbenian-1.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=18 April 2020|publisher=Sports-Reference.com|accessdate=14 November 2012}}
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20140518204906/http://www.fila-official.com/index.php?option=com_database&act=ficheLutteur&Itemid=&id_lutteur=5F3FE85C955F499D943441C017B894A8&filtre_pays=Greece&lettre=R&recherche_lutteur=&lang=fr Profile]
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Category:Sportspeople from Astana
Category:Armenian male sport wrestlers
Category:Soviet male sport wrestlers
Category:Greek male sport wrestlers
Category:Wrestlers at the 1996 Summer Olympics
Category:Olympic wrestlers for Greece
Category:Armenian emigrants to Greece
Category:Mediterranean Games bronze medalists for Greece
Category:Competitors at the 1997 Mediterranean Games
Category:Mediterranean Games medalists in wrestling
Category:European Wrestling Championships medalists
Category:Sport wrestlers from Gyumri
Category:Naturalized citizens of Greece
Category:Naturalised sports competitors
Category:20th-century Greek sportsmen
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