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{{short description|Ukrainian volleyball player}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=October 2023}}
{{Infobox volleyball biography
| name             = Yury Panchenko
| image            = 
| fullname         = Yuriy Petrovych Panchenko
| nickname         = Юрій Петрович Панченко
| nationality      = [[Russia]]n, [[Ukraine|Ukrainian]]
| birth_date       = {{Birth date and age|1959|2|5}}
| birth_place      = [[Kiev]], [[Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic|Ukrainian SSR]], [[Soviet Union]]
| death_date       = 
| death_place      = 
| position         = Opposite
| teamnumber       = 1
| height           = 1.98 m
| weight           = 
| spike            = 
| block            =
| team             = 
| nationalteam     = {{vb|Soviet Union}}
| nationalyears    = 1979–1988
| years            = 
| clubs            = 
| medaltemplates   =
{{MedalSport|Men's [[volleyball]]}}
{{MedalCountry|{{USSR}}}}
[[File:Olympic rings.svg|center|80px]]
{{MedalCompetition|[[Volleyball at the Summer Olympics|Olympic Games]]}}
{{MedalGold|[[1980 Summer Olympics|1980 Moscow]] |[[Volleyball at the 1980 Summer Olympics|Team]]}}
{{MedalSilver|[[1988 Summer Olympics|1988 Seoul]] |[[Volleyball at the 1988 Summer Olympics|Team]]}}
{{MedalCompetition|[[FIVB Volleyball Men's World Championship|World Championship]]}}
{{MedalGold|[[1982 FIVB Volleyball Men's World Championship|1982 Argentina]]|}}
{{MedalSilver|[[1986 FIVB Volleyball Men's World Championship|1986 France]]|[[1986 FIVB Volleyball Men's World Championship squads|Team]]}}
{{MedalCompetition|[[FIVB Volleyball Men's World Cup|World Cup]]}}
{{Medal|Gold|[[1981 FIVB Volleyball Men's World Cup|1981 Japan]]|}}
{{Medal|Silver|[[1985 FIVB Volleyball Men's World Cup|1985 Japan]]|}}
{{MedalCompetition|[[Goodwill Games]]}}
{{Medal|Gold|[[1986 Goodwill Games|1986 Moscow]]|}}
{{MedalCompetition|[[Friendship Games]]}}
{{Medal|Gold|[[Volleyball at the Friendship Games|1984 Havana]]|}}
{{MedalCompetition|[[Men's European Volleyball Championship|European Championship]]}}
{{MedalGold|[[1979 Men's European Volleyball Championship|1979 France]]|}}
{{MedalGold|[[1981 Men's European Volleyball Championship|1981 Bulgaria]]|}}
{{MedalGold|[[1983 Men's European Volleyball Championship|1983 East Germany]]|}}
{{MedalGold|[[1985 Men's European Volleyball Championship|1985 Netherlands]]|}}
{{MedalGold|[[1987 Men's European Volleyball Championship|1987 Belgium]]|}}
}}

'''Yuriy Petrovych Panchenko''' ({{langx|uk|Юрій Петрович Панченко}}, born 5 February 1959) is a [[Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic|Ukrainian]]-born [[Russians|Russian]] coach and former [[volleyball]] player<ref name="SI">{{Cite magazine |url=https://vault.si.com/vault/1988/10/10/volleyball-west-bests-east-the-us-men-spiked-their-rivals-and-drinking-buddies-the-soviets-for-the-gold |magazine=[[Sports Illustrated]] |title=West Bests East |last=Anderson |first=Bruce |date=10 October 1988 |publisher=[[Time Inc.|Time]] |location=New York City |access-date=25 September 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200803130031/https://vault.si.com/vault/1988/10/10/volleyball-west-bests-east-the-us-men-spiked-their-rivals-and-drinking-buddies-the-soviets-for-the-gold |archive-date=3 August 2020 |url-status=live }}</ref> who competed for the [[Soviet Union]] in the [[1980 Summer Olympics]] in [[Moscow]] and the [[1988 Summer Olympics]] in [[Seoul]].<ref name="Olympedia">{{Cite web |url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/53196 |website=Olympedia |title=Yury Panchenko |access-date=10 January 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240430071615/https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/53196 |archive-date=30 April 2024 |url-status=live }}</ref>

==Career==
Born in [[Kiev]], Panchenko debuted for Lokomotiv Kiev and, aged twenty, he moved to Soviet Union's most renowned team, [[VC CSKA Moscow]]: with this team he won nine Soviet championships, three Soviet Cups, six European Champions Cups (1982, 1983, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989),<ref name="Olympedia" /> and two European Supercups (1987 and 1988). In 1980, he was part of the Soviet team which won the gold medal in the Olympic tournament. He also won the [[1982 FIVB Men's World Championship|world title in Argentina]] in 1982.

Eight years later, Panchenko won the silver medal with the Soviet team in the 1988 Olympic tournament. In 1989, he was the first Soviet military allowed to play in a foreign country, when he moved to [[Porto Ravenna Volley|Conad Ravenna]] in Italy. The following year Panchenko moved to Moka Rica Forlì, where he remained until ending his career in 1994.

==References==
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==External links==
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* [https://volleybox.net/yury-panchenko-p2198 Volleybox.net profile]

{{Soviet Union men's volleyball squad 1980 Summer Olympics}}
{{Soviet Union squad 1981 FIVB Men's World Cup}}
{{Soviet Union squad 1982 FIVB Men's World Championship}}
{{Soviet Union squad 1986 FIVB Men's World Championship}}
{{Soviet Union men's volleyball squad 1988 Summer Olympics}}

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[[Category:1959 births]]
[[Category:Living people]]
[[Category:Volleyball players from Kyiv]]
[[Category:Ukrainian men's volleyball players]]
[[Category:Soviet men's volleyball players]]
[[Category:Olympic volleyball players for the Soviet Union]]
[[Category:Volleyball players at the 1980 Summer Olympics]]
[[Category:Volleyball players at the 1988 Summer Olympics]]
[[Category:Olympic gold medalists for the Soviet Union]]
[[Category:Olympic silver medalists for the Soviet Union]]
[[Category:Olympic medalists in volleyball]]
[[Category:Medalists at the 1988 Summer Olympics]]
[[Category:Medalists at the 1980 Summer Olympics]]
[[Category:Competitors at the 1986 Goodwill Games]]
[[Category:Goodwill Games medalists in volleyball]]
[[Category:Friendship Games medalists in volleyball]]
[[Category:20th-century Ukrainian sportsmen]]