Roman Melyoshin

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Roman Sergeyevich Melyoshin (Template:Lang-kk; born June 23, 1983 in Petropavl) is an amateur Kazakhstani Greco-Roman wrestler, who played for the men's middleweight category.<ref>Template:Cite sports-reference</ref> He won a gold medal for his division at the 2006 Asian Games in Doha, Qatar, and bronze at the 2009 Asian Wrestling Championships in Pattaya, Thailand.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

Melyoshin represented Kazakhstan at the 2008 Summer Olympics, where he competed for the men's 74 kg class. He defeated Australia's Hassan Shahsavan in the preliminary round of sixteen, before losing out the quarterfinal match to Belarus' Aleh Mikhalovich, with a three-set technical score (1–1, 1–1, 1–2), and a classification point score of 1–3.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

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