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{{Infobox sportsperson
|image=Yuri Melnichenko 2007 Kazakhstani stamp.jpg
|image_size=260px
|birth_date={{Birth date and age|df=yes|1972|06|05}}
|birth_place=[[Jalal-Abad]], [[Kyrgyzstan]]
|sport=[[Greco-Roman wrestling]]
|club=Daulet, Almaty 
|medaltemplates=
{{MedalCompetition|[[Wrestling at the Summer Olympics|Olympics]]}}
{{MedalGold| [[1996 Summer Olympics|1996 Atlanta]] | [[Wrestling at the 1996 Summer Olympics|Bantamweight]]}}
{{MedalCompetition|[[FILA Wrestling World Championships|World championships]]}}
{{MedalGold|[[1994 World Wrestling Championships|1994 Istanbul]]| -57 kg}}
{{MedalSilver|[[1995 World Wrestling Championships|1995 Prague]]| -57 kg}}
{{MedalGold|[[1997 World Wrestling Championships|1997 Wrocław]]| -57 kg}}
{{MedalSilver|[[1999 World Wrestling Championships|1999 Athens]]| -57 kg}}
{{MedalCompetition|[[Asian Games]]}}
{{MedalGold|[[1994 Asian Games|1994 Hiroshima]]| [[Wrestling at the 1994 Asian Games|-57 kg]]}}
{{MedalCompetition|[[Asian Wrestling Championships|Asian championships]]}}
{{MedalGold|1996 Xiaoshan| -57 kg}}
{{MedalGold|1997 Tehran| -57 kg}}
{{MedalSilver|1999 Tashkent| -57 kg}}
}}
'''Yuriy Vasilyevich Melnichenko''' ({{lang-ru|Юрий Васильевич Мельниченко}}, born 5 June 1972) is a [[Kazakhs|Kazakh]] [[sport wrestling|wrestler]] who won the gold medal in the Greco-Roman bantamweight (52–57&nbsp;kg) category at the [[1996 Summer Olympics]]. He competed at the next Olympics in the feartherweight division and finished 19th.<ref>[http://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/me/yury-melnichenko-1.html Yury Melnichenko]. sports-reference.com</ref>

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==
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==External links==
*[http://www.nbcolympics.com/athletes/athlete=77880/bio/ NBC Olympic Profile – Yuriy Melnichenko]

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[[Category:People from Jalal-Abad Region]]
[[Category:Wrestlers at the 1996 Summer Olympics]]
[[Category:Wrestlers at the 2000 Summer Olympics]]
[[Category:Kazakhstani male sport wrestlers]]
[[Category:Olympic wrestlers of Kazakhstan]]
[[Category:Olympic gold medalists for Kazakhstan]]
[[Category:Olympic medalists in wrestling]]
[[Category:Asian Games medalists in wrestling]]
[[Category:Kazakhstani people of Ukrainian descent]]
[[Category:Wrestlers at the 1994 Asian Games]]
[[Category:World Wrestling Championships medalists]]
[[Category:Medalists at the 1996 Summer Olympics]]
[[Category:Asian Games gold medalists for Kazakhstan]]


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