Iryna Oleksiyivna Merleni ( uk, Ірина Олексіївна Мерлені),
née Melnyk (), married name Mykulchyn () (born 8 February 1982) is a
Ukrainian
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wrestler
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, who competed in the – 48 kg
weight class
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at the
2004 Summer Olympics and claimed the
gold medal. In the same event at the
2008 Summer Olympics, she won a bronze medal. She is a three-time world champion, and won the European championship once.
Merleni was born in
Kamianets-Podilskyi
Kamianets-Podilskyi ( uk, Ка́м'яне́ць-Поді́льський, russian: Каменец-Подольский, Kamenets-Podolskiy, pl, Kamieniec Podolski, ro, Camenița, yi, קאַמענעץ־פּאָדאָלסק / קאַמעניץ, ...
,
Khmelnytskyi Oblast. In February 2006, she married Andriy Mykulchyn, with whom she has two sons – Artur and Adam. She was inducted into the Women’s Wrestling Hall of Fame in 2023.
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1982 births
People from Kamianets-Podilskyi
Living people
Ukrainian female sport wrestlers
Olympic gold medalists for Ukraine
Olympic bronze medalists for Ukraine
Olympic wrestlers of Ukraine
Wrestlers at the 2004 Summer Olympics
Wrestlers at the 2008 Summer Olympics
Wrestlers at the 2012 Summer Olympics
Olympic medalists in wrestling
Medalists at the 2008 Summer Olympics
Medalists at the 2004 Summer Olympics
World Wrestling Championships medalists
Universiade medalists in wrestling
Universiade gold medalists for Ukraine
Medalists at the 2005 Summer Universiade
Sportspeople from Khmelnytskyi Oblast
20th-century Ukrainian women
21st-century Ukrainian women
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