the finals at the 2009 World Amateur Boxing Championships in Milan and won the silver medal. He won a bronze medal at the 2011 World Amateur Boxing Championships after losing to now reigning World and Olympic Champion Shiming, who went on to win the World Championship yet again. Ayrapetyan advanced to the semifinals at the 2012 Summer Olympics and won an Olympic bronze medal. Awards Medal of the Order, For Services to the Fatherland, II degree (13 August 2012) - for outstanding contribution to the development of physical culture and sports, high achievements in sports at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, United Kingdom. References External links Profile on the Russian Boxing Federation Interview 1983 births Living people Sportspeople from Baku Armenian male boxers Light-flyweight boxers Olympic boxers of Russia Boxers at the 2008 Summer Olympics Boxers at the 2012 Summer Olympics Olympic bronze medalists for Russia Olympic medalists in boxing Russian people of Armenian descent Medalists at the 2012 Summer Olympics Russian male boxers AIBA World Boxing Championships medalists