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{{Short description|Kazakhstani wrestler (born 1972)}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=July 2014}}
{{Infobox sportsperson
|image=Yuri Melnichenko 2007 Kazakhstani stamp.jpg
|image_size=260px
|caption=Melnichenko on a 2007 Kazakhstani stamp
|birth_date={{Birth date and age|df=yes|1972|06|05}}
|birth_place=[[Jalal-Abad]], [[Kirghiz SSR]], [[Soviet Union]]
|sport=[[Greco-Roman wrestling]]
|club=Daulet, Almaty 
|medaltemplates=
{{MedalSport|Men's [[Greco-Roman wrestling]]}}
{{MedalCountry|{{KAZ}}}}
{{MedalCompetition|[[Wrestling at the Summer Olympics|Olympic Games]]}}
[[File:Olympic rings.svg|center|80px]]
{{MedalGold| [[1996 Summer Olympics|1996 Atlanta]] | [[Wrestling at the 1996 Summer Olympics – Men's Greco-Roman 57 kg|57 kg]]}}
{{MedalCompetition|[[FILA Wrestling World Championships|World Championships]]}}
{{MedalGold|[[1994 World Wrestling Championships|1994 Tampere]]| 57 kg}}
{{MedalGold|[[1997 World Wrestling Championships|1997 Wrocław]]| 57 kg}}
{{MedalSilver|[[1995 World Wrestling Championships|1995 Prague]]| 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''' ({{langx|ru|Юрий Васильевич Мельниченко}}; born 5 June 1972) is a Kazakhstani [[sport wrestling|wrestler]] who won the gold medal in the Greco-Roman bantamweight (52–57&nbsp;kg) category at the [[1996 Summer Olympics]].<ref>{{Cite web|date=2016-06-20|title=Yuriy MELNICHENKO - Olympic Wrestling Greco-Roman {{!}} Kazakhstan|url=https://www.olympic.org/yuriy-melnichenko|access-date=2020-07-08|website=International Olympic Committee|language=en}}</ref> He competed at the next Olympics in the featherweight division and finished 19th.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20200418025018/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/me/yury-melnichenko-1.html Yury Melnichenko]. sports-reference.com</ref>

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.

In August 2023, he was appointed head coach of the national Greco-Roman wrestling team of Kazakhstan.<ref>{{Cite web|language=ru|url=https://www.sports.kz/news/naznachen-glavnyiy-trener-sbornoy-kazahstana-po-greko-rimskoy-borbe|title=Назначен главный тренер сборной Казахстана по греко-римской борьбе|website=www.sports.kz|date=2023-08-09|access-date=}}</ref>

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

{{Olympic Champions Greco-Roman wrestling bantamweight}}
{{World Champions Greco-Roman wrestling bantamweight}}
{{Asian Games Champions Wrestling Greco-Roman Bantamweight Men}}

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[[Category:Kyrgyzstani people of Ukrainian descent]]
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[[Category:Wrestlers at the 1996 Summer Olympics]]
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