Yuriy Melnichenko

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.[1] He competed at the next Olympics in the featherweight division and finished 19th.[2]

Yuriy Melnichenko

Personal information
Born	(1972-06-05) 5 June 1972 Jalal-Abad, Kirghiz SSR, Soviet Union
Sport
Sport	Greco-Roman wrestling
Club	Daulet, Almaty
Medal record Olympics 1996 Atlanta Bantamweight World championships 1994 Tampere -57 kg 1995 Prague -57 kg 1997 Wrocław -57 kg 1999 Athens -57 kg Asian Games 1994 Hiroshima -57 kg Asian championships 1996 Xiaoshan -57 kg 1997 Tehran -57 kg 1999 Tashkent -57 kg

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