Ivan Ishchenko
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| Full name | Ivan Ivanovych Ishchenko | ||||||||||||
| Nationality |
 Ukraine | ||||||||||||
| Born |
19 May 1980 Mykolaiv, Ukrainian SSR | ||||||||||||
| Height | 1.94 m (6 ft 4 1⁄2 in) | ||||||||||||
| Weight | 120 kg (265 lb) | ||||||||||||
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| Sport | Wrestling | ||||||||||||
| Event(s) | Freestyle | ||||||||||||
| Club | Dynamo-Osvita Mykolaïv | ||||||||||||
| Coached by | Ruslan Savlokhov | ||||||||||||
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Ivan Ivanovych Ishchenko (Ukrainian: Іван Іванович Іщенко; born May 19, 1980 in Mykolaiv) is an amateur Ukrainian freestyle wrestler, who played for the men's super heavyweight category.[1] He won a silver medal for his division at the 2006 European Wrestling Championships in Moscow, Russia, losing out to Russia's Kuramagomed Kuramagomedov.[2] Ishchenko is a member of the wrestling team for Dynamo-Osvita Mykolaïv, and is coached and trained by Ruslan Savlokhov.
Ishchenko represented Ukraine at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, where he competed for the men's 120 kg class. He received a bye for the preliminary round of sixteen match, before losing out to Turkey's Aydın Polatçı, with a three-set technical score (3–0, 0–1, 0–1), and a classification point score of 1–3.[3]
References
- ↑ "Ivan Ishchenko". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved 19 January 2013.
- ↑ "European Championship: Freestyle seniors 2006-04-29 Moscow (RUS) – 120.0 kg". International Wrestling Federation. Retrieved 19 January 2013.
- ↑ "Men's Freestyle 120kg (264.5 lbs) Round of 16 Final Official". NBC Olympics. Retrieved 19 January 2013.