The young athlete came out the winner among 45 participants, all a year older than him, and earned 79.12 points. Mikaelyan is very close to securing a place in 2019 World Cup finals.

Other Armenia representatives were also involved in Saariselkä tournament. Tadevos Poghosyan finished 12th, Arman Matinyan was 29th, and Katya Galstyan came 23rd.