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Nshan Munchyan

Medal record
Representing  Armenia
Men's Boxing
World Amateur Championships
	1993 Tampere	Light Flyweight
World Cup
	1994 Bangkok	Light Flyweight
Representing  Soviet Union
World Amateur Championships
	1989 Moscow	Light Flyweight
European Amateur Championships
	1987 Turin	Light Flyweight
	1989 Athens	Light Flyweight
Goodwill Games
	1986 Moscow	Light Flyweight
	1990 Seattle	Light Flyweight

Nshan Munchyan (Armenian: Նշան Մունչյան, born June 24, 1963, in Yerevan, Armenian SSR) is a retired Armenian boxer. He is a former World, European, four-time Soviet and multi-time Armenian Champion.^[1]

Nshan started boxing in Armenia in 1976. He began boxing under the Soviet Union. Munchyan won a gold medal at the 1987 European Amateur Boxing Championships. After the Union's fall in 1991, Munchyan began representing his native Armenia. He won a gold medal at the 1993 World Amateur Boxing Championships and a gold medal at the 1994 World Cup. He is the first boxer from the independent Armenia to win a medal in either competition.

Munchyan competed at the 1996 Summer Olympics where, after receiving a first round bye, he lost to Daniel Petrov, whom he previously defeated at the 1993 World Championships finals. Petrov went on to win the Olympic gold medal.

He is married and has three children.

1996

• 1st round bye
• Lost to Daniel Petrov (Bulgaria) 5-11

1986

• Lost to Luis Rolon (Puerto Rico) 1-4

1989

• Defeated Leszek Olszewski (Poland) RSC 1
• Defeated Erdenentsogt Tsogtjargal (Mongolia) 17-9
• Lost to Rogelio Marcelo (Cuba) 20-23

1993

• Defeated Bernard Inom (France) 23-9
• Defeated Eduard Gaifulin (Russia) 11-0
• Defeated Albert Guardado (United States) 7-2
• Defeated Daniel Petrov (Bulgaria) 8-6

1995

• Defeated Pal Lakatos (Hungary) 11-11
• Lost to Andrzej Rzany (Poland) 6-6

1987

• 1st round bye
• Defeated Robert Isaszegi (Hungary) 5-0
• Defeated Adrian Amzer (Romania) 5-0
• Defeated Krasimir Cholakov (Bulgaria) 4-1

1989

• Defeated Luigi Castiglione (Italy) 4-1
• Lost to Robert Isaszegi (Hungary) DQ 3

1991

• Defeated Jan Quast (Germany) 25-20
• Lost to Pal Lakatos (Hungary) 19-23

1994

• Defeated Bulat Jumadilov (Kazakhstan) 12-8
• Defeated Bernard Inom (France) 13-8
• Defeated Pramunasak Phosuwan (Thailand) 11-6
• Defeated Rafael Lozano (Spain) 15-6

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