Armenian gymnast Vahagn Davtyan won a silver medal in the rings exercise of the European Games ended in Minsk, Belarus.

After the award ceremony he told the Armenian National Olympic Committee’s press service about the difficult path he has passed and the value of the medal he has captured.

“The path to any medal is hard because you have to prepare yourself mentally. You can be perfectly prepared physically but unable to concentrate psychologically on the last minute and something unpredictable may happen, something that you haven’t done before,” the athlete said.

“The most desirable thing is to become a champion. It’s hard to think that you have lost only 0.34 points to your opponent but, anyway, I’m satisfied with the result. I’m very happy I qualified for the final on the 5th position and today managed to be the second. Today the training experience helped me as I was prepared physically. Despite great difficulties I don’t regret having chosen this sport and it was worth staying in this sport to achieve this result. I have had a serious injury, an operation, etc. There comes a moment when you think there is nothing more important than health, but I have never thought of leaving sports,” Vahagn Davtyan added. 

Earlier on April the Armenian gymnast won a bronze medal in the rings event of the European Championship in Poland.