Yuriy Volodymyrovych Koval ( uk, Юрій Володимирович Коваль; born July 15, 1980 in

Odessa Odesa (also spelled Odessa) is the third most populous city and municipality in Ukraine and a major seaport and transport hub located in the south-west of the country, on the northwestern shore of the Black Sea. The city is also the administrativ ...

) is an amateur Ukrainian Greco-Roman wrestler, who played for the men's featherweight category. Koval represented

Ukraine Ukraine ( uk, Україна, Ukraïna, ) is a country in Eastern Europe. It is the second-largest European country after Russia, which it borders to the east and northeast. Ukraine covers approximately . Prior to the ongoing Russian inv ...

at the

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, where he competed for the men's 55 kg class. He lost the qualifying round match to Serbia's

Kristijan Fris Kristijan Fris ( sr-cyrl, Кристијан Фрис, hu, Frisz Krisztián; born 21 April 1984 in Senta, Serbia, Yugoslavia) is a Serbian sport wrestler. He won a bronze medal at the 2007 World Wrestling Championships in Baku. ...

, with a three-set technical score (4–6, 2–1, 1–3), and a classification point score of 1–3.

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* * * * Ukrainian male sport wrestlers 1980 births Living people Olympic wrestlers for Ukraine Wrestlers at the 2008 Summer Olympics Sportspeople from Odesa 21st-century Ukrainian people {{Ukraine-wrestling-bio-stub