Oleksandr Serhiyovych Darahan (also ''Oleksandr Daragan'', uk, Олександр Сергійович Дараган; born January 19, 1978, in
Dnipropetrovsk
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) is an amateur Ukrainian
Greco-Roman wrestler
Greco-Roman (American English), Graeco-Roman (British English), classic wrestling ( Euro English) or French wrestling (in Russia until 1948) is a style of wrestling that is practiced worldwide. Greco-Roman wrestling was included in the first mo ...
, who played for the men's light heavyweight category. In 2001, Daragan had won two bronze medals for his division at the
World Wrestling Championships
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in
Patras, Greece
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, and at the European Wrestling Championships in
Istanbul, Turkey
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. He is also a member of the wrestling team for Dynamo Mariupol, and is coached and trained by his father Sergey Daragan.
Daragan made his official debut for the
2004 Summer Olympics
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in
Athens
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, where he placed second in the preliminary pool of the
men's 84 kg class, against Turkey's
Hamza Yerlikaya
Hamza Yerlikaya (born June 6, 1976, in Kadıköy, Istanbul) is a Turkish Graeco-Roman style wrestler. He is a two-time (in 1996 and 2000) Olympic champion, three-time World Champion (1993, 1995, and 2005), and the first Turkish wrestler to become ...
, Bulgaria's Vladislav Metodiev, and Estonia's Tarvi Thomberg.
At the
2008 Summer Olympics
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in
Beijing
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, Daragan competed for the second time in the
men's 84 kg class. He received a bye for the preliminary round of sixteen match, before losing out to Iran's
Saman Tahmasebi
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, with a three-set technical score (0–4, 2–1, 0–3), and a classification point score of 1–3.
References
External links
NBC 2008 Olympics profile*
Ukrainian male sport wrestlers
1978 births
Living people
Olympic wrestlers for Ukraine
Wrestlers at the 2004 Summer Olympics
Wrestlers at the 2008 Summer Olympics
Sportspeople from Dnipro
World Wrestling Championships medalists
21st-century Ukrainian sportsmen
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