Mıgırdiç Mıgıryan

{{Short description|Turkish athlete}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}}

{{Infobox sportsperson

|headercolor =

|name = Migir Migiryan

|native_name = Մկրտիչ Մկրեան

|native_name_lang =

|image = Mkrtich Mkryan.jpg

|image_size = 180px

|caption = Mıgır Mıgıryan discus throwing at Robert College.

|nationality = Ottoman

|birth_date = {{birth date|1882|9|12|df=yes}}

|birth_place = Üsküdar, Ottoman Empire

|death_date = {{death year and age|1915|1882}}

|death_place =

|country =

|sport = shot put, discus throw, two handed shot put, pentathlon, decathlon.

|rank =

|event = Shot put, discus, athletics pentathlon, decathlon

|club =

|updated = 4 February 2013

}}

Mıgırdiç Mıgıryan ({{langx|hy|Մկրտիչ Մկրեան|Mkrtich' Mkryan}},[http://www.genocide-museum.am/arm/online_exhibition_1.php Հայկական սպորտը Օսմանյան կայսրությունում մինչև Առաջին համաշխարհային պատերազմը], Հայոց ցեղասպանության թանգարան-ինստիտուտ. {{in lang|hy}} also spelled Mıgır, Mığır, Migir in Turkish) (12 September 1882 – 1915) was one of two athletes who represented the Ottoman Empire in the Olympic Games which was held in Stockholm in 1912.{{cite journal|title=Vahram Papazyan|journal=Türk Ansiklopedisi|year=1946|volume=25|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UfjNAAAAMAAJ|accessdate=4 February 2013|page=417|publisher=Milli Eǧitim Basımevi|language=Turkish|quote=Bunlardan Vahram Papazyan, Stokholm sefirimizin eşi tarafından kırmızı atlet fanilesinin üzerine dikilen beyaz Ay – yıldız altında yarışan ilk atletimiz oldu. Türkiye'nin ilk defa bir O. O.'nda devletçe gönderilen resmî bir sporcu kafilesiyle temsili}}{{cite web|title=Olimpiyat Stadyumlarında İlk Türk Bayrakları|url=https://www.sgm.gov.tr/Sayfalar/OlimpiyatDetay.aspx?OlimpiyatID=10|publisher=T.C. Genclik ve Spor Bakanligi (Republic of Turkey Youth and Sport Ministry)|accessdate=4 February 2013|language=Turkish|quote=Osmanlı Olimpiyat Cemiyeti artık kurulmuştu ve bu iki sporcu bu derneğin verdiği belgelerle resmen bir Olimpiyat Oyunları'na ilk kez katılıyorlardı. Bu sporcularımız Vahram Papazyan ve Mırgırdıç Mıgıryan Efendiler idi.|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://archive.today/20130418172914/https://www.sgm.gov.tr/Sayfalar/OlimpiyatDetay.aspx?OlimpiyatID=10|archivedate=18 April 2013}}{{cite book|last=Yalçın|first=Soner|title=Siz kimi kandırıyorsunuz!|year=2008|publisher=Doğan Kitap|location=Şişli, İstanbul|isbn=9789759917098|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-2MMAQAAMAAJ|edition=1. baskı.|accessdate=4 February 2013|page=138|quote=Peki: kendi paralarıyla 1912 Stockholm Olimpiyatlarına giden ve Ay Yıldızlı bayrağımızı uluslararası turnuvada ilk dalgalandıranlar Vahram Papazyan ve Mıgırdiç Mıgıryan adını hiç duydunuz mu?}}

Migiryan participated in shot put, discus throw, two handed shot put, pentathlon, and decathlon competitions.{{cite book|title=The fifth Olympiad: the official report of the Olympic games of Stockholm, 1912 |publisher=Swedish Olympic Committee |url=http://www.la84foundation.org/6oic/OfficialReports/1912/1912.pdf |editor=Erik Bergvall |others=Translated by Edward Adams-Ray |accessdate=4 February 2013 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080410231505/http://www.la84foundation.org/6oic/OfficialReports/1912/1912.pdf |archivedate=10 April 2008 }}{{cite web|url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/77015 |title=Mıgırdiç Mıgıryan |work=Olympedia |access-date=28 April 2021}} Migir Migiryan along with ethnic Armenian Vahram Papazyan were the only two athletes representing Turkey in the country's first official participation of the Olympics.{{cite book|last=Heijmans|first=Bill Mallon, Jeroen|title=Historical dictionary of the Olympic movement|date=11 August 2011|publisher=Scarecrow Press|location=Lanham, Md.|isbn=9780810875227|edition=4th}} "Armenia's first connection with the modern Olympics can be traced to the 1912 Olympics, when two Armenian track and field athletes represented Turkey. These two athletes, Mığır Mığıryan and Haret Papazyan, comprised the entire Turkish team in 1912, but they had, in fact, been sent to Stockholm by the Armenian General Sports Union."