Artur Aleksanyan

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Artur Aleksanyan (Armenian: Արթուր Ալեքսանյան, born 21 October 1991) is an Armenian Greco-Roman wrestler. He is a gold medalist Olympic Champion (2016) as well as silver medalist (2021, 2024) and bronze medalist (2012), a four-time World Champion (2014, 2015, 2017, 2022), and a seven-time European Champion (2012, 2013, 2014, 2018, 2020, 2023, 2024). Aleksanyan is the second Olympic gold medalist of Armenia since regaining independence in 1991 and is the most decorated Olympian of independent Armenia as well. He has been nicknamed the "White Bear" by a sport journalist Karen Giloyan and is one of the most successful Armenian athletes of the 21st century.

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