Ivan Ivanovych Ishchenko ( uk, Іван Іванович Іщенко; born May 19, 1980, in
Mykolaiv
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) is an amateur Ukrainian freestyle wrestler, who played for the men's super heavyweight category. He won a silver medal for his division at the 2006 European Wrestling Championships in
Moscow, Russia
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, losing out to Russia's
Kuramagomed Kuramagomedov
Kuramagomed Sharipovich Kuramagomedov (russian: Курамагомед Шарипович Курамагомедов; born 21 March 1978) is a freestyle wrestler who competed for Russia in the 2004 Summer Olympics and won a world title in 1997 a ...
. Ishchenko is a member of the wrestling team for Dynamo-Osvita Mykolaïv, and is coached and trained by Ruslan Savlokhov.
Ishchenko represented
Ukraine
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at the
2008 Summer Olympics
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in
Beijing
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, 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
Aydın Polatçı (born 15 May 1977) is a Turkish wrestler. He was born in Istanbul. He was Olympic bronze medalist in Freestyle wrestling in 2004. He also competed at the 2000 and 2008 Olympics.
Wrestling career
Aydın Polatçı grew up in his b ...
, with a three-set technical score (3–0, 0–1, 0–1), and a classification point score of 1–3.
References
External links
Profile – International Wrestling Database
1980 births
Living people
Olympic wrestlers for Ukraine
Wrestlers at the 2008 Summer Olympics
Sportspeople from Mykolaiv
Ukrainian male sport wrestlers
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