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Daulet, Almaty


Name
  
Yuriy Melnichenko

Role
  
Olympic athlete

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Born
  
5 June 1972 (age 52) (
1972-06-05
)
Jalal-Abad, Kyrgyzstan

Olympic medals
  
Wrestling at the 1996 Summer Olympics - Men's Greco-Roman Bantamweight

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Yuriy Vasilyevich Melnichenko (Russian: Юрий Васильевич Мельниченко, born 5 June 1972) is a Kazakh wrestler who won the gold medal in the Greco-Roman bantamweight (52–57 kg) category at the 1996 Summer Olympics. He competed at the next Olympics in the feartherweight division and finished 19th.

After retiring from competition, Melnichenko worked as a wrestling coach. Between 2000 and 2004 he headed the national team, and after that acted as vice-president of the national wrestling federation. Georgiy Tsurtsumia was his trainee.

References

Yuriy Melnichenko Wikipedia


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