Roman Sergeyevich Melyoshin ( kk, Роман Сергеевич Мелёшин; born June 23, 1983, in
Petropavl
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) is an amateur Kazakhstani Greco-Roman wrestler, who played for the men's middleweight category. He won a gold medal for his division at the
2006 Asian Games
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in
Doha, Qatar
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, and bronze at the
2009 Asian Wrestling Championships
The 2009 Asian Wrestling Championships were held in Pattaya, Thailand. The event took place from May 2 to May 7, 2009.
Medal table
Team ranking
Medal summary Men's freestyle
Men's Greco-Roman
Women's freestyle
Participating nations ...
in
Pattaya, Thailand.
Melyoshin represented
Kazakhstan
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at the
2008 Summer Olympics
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, where he competed for the
men's 74 kg class. He defeated Australia's Hassan Shahsavan in the preliminary round of sixteen, before losing out the quarterfinal match to Belarus'
Aleh Mikhalovich, with a three-set technical score (1–1, 1–1, 1–2), and a classification point score of 1–3.
References
External links
Profile – International Wrestling Database
1983 births
Living people
Olympic wrestlers for Kazakhstan
Wrestlers at the 2008 Summer Olympics
Sportspeople from Petropavl
Asian Games medalists in wrestling
Wrestlers at the 2006 Asian Games
Wrestlers at the 2010 Asian Games
Kazakhstani male sport wrestlers
Asian Games gold medalists for Kazakhstan
Medalists at the 2006 Asian Games
Asian Wrestling Championships medalists
21st-century Kazakhstani sportspeople
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