17 Times Swimming World Champion Lost His Career When An Unexpected Episode Changed His Life Forever

What made us the way we are? What were the choices that we made that led us here? These questions are hard and not easy to answer but, this story here would surely tell why this guy made such a decision that made him the most popular. He wasn’t positive about the step he was about to take but still, one thing led to another and the hero was born. If you have watched superheroes movies you might have seen that our favorite superheroes struggle a lot to reach a certain stage before they are considered as heroes among the community. Though this story isn’t about a superhero a normal human being who became a national hero in a most unexpected way. You’ll be surprised to see how it all began…

Champion Was Born

Shavarsh Karapetyan was born on May 19, 1953, in Kirovakan (now called Vanadzor), Armenia. Kirovakan is the third largest country in Armenia then part of Soviet Union. In 1964, his family moved to Yerevan where he finished his eight years of schooling and later shifted to a technical school where he learned about auto-mechanics. But then something happened in his life that shifted his life’s direction towards swimming which turned out to be the most fruitful decision in his life. But who would have thought that in future things would take a steep turn that would change everybody’s lives?