Davit Torosyan

Armenian Davit Torosyan rose to fame in 1970, when he won the Soviet junior title and silver at the European Junior Championships as a flyweight. In 1973, Torosyan won his only Soviet title in flyweight, his other medals from the Soviet Championships being silvers in 1976 and 1978 and bronzes in 1974, 1975 and 1977, all in bantamweight. Torosyan also competed at the 1974 World Championships and 1976 Olympics, where he won bronzes in bantamweight at the Worlds and as a flyweight at the Olympics. After his boxing career, Torosyan worked as a boxing coach in Armenia and later emigrated to the United States, settling in Glendale, California, where he opened a gym and coached the Armenian-born American boxer Vanes Martirosyan, who competed at the 2004 Olympics.