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Zhan Beleniuk
Personal information
Full name	Zhan Vensanovych Beleniuk
Nationality	Ukrainian
Born	24 January 1991 (age 33); Kyiv, Ukraine
Height	1.75 m (5 ft 9 in)
Weight	85 kg (187 lb)
Sport
Sport	Wrestling
Event	Greco-Roman
Club	Spartak Kyiv
Coached by	Vitalyj Kisilisa; Aleksej Dobrovolskyj; Oleg Sazonov
Medal record
Representing Ukraine
Men's Greco-Roman Wrestling
Olympic Games
World Championships
European Championships
European Games
Summer Universiade

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Zhan Vensanovych Beleniuk (Template:Lang-uk; born 24 January 1991) is a Ukrainian Greco-Roman wrestler.

Early life

Beleniuk was born in 1991 in Kyiv to a Ukrainian mother and a father from Rwanda. His father was a pilot who studied in Kyiv at the National Aviation University and died during the Rwandan Civil War.

Beleniuk began wrestling in the year 2000 at 9 years of age.^[1]

Career

In 2010 he won the silver medal at the Junior World Championships. In 2011, he became the Junior European Champion amongst, and won bronze at the World Championship.

In 2012, he won the bronze medal at European Championships.

In 2013, he won bronze again at the Summer Universiade.

In 2014, he won a gold medal at the 2014 European Wrestling Championships,^[2] and bronze at the World Championships.

In 2015, he won the silver medal at the European Games.

On 10 September 2015, after winning against then the ruling World Champion and then Champion of Asia, the Uzbek Rustam Assakalov scoring 6:0, Beleniuk won gold at the 2015 World Wrestling Championships in under-85 kg weight category.

In 2016, he won gold yet again at the 2016 European Wrestling Championships.

In 2016 he won the silver medal at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio.

Achievements

Year	Tournament	Venue	Result	Event
2007	European Cadet Championships	Warsaw, Poland	2nd	Greco-Roman 76 kg
2008	European Cadet Championships	Daugavpils, Latvia	3rd	Greco-Roman 76 kg
2010	European Junior Championships	Samokov, Bulgaria	10th	Greco-Roman 84 kg
2010	World Junior Championships	Budapest, Hungary	3rd	Greco-Roman 84 kg
2011	European Junior Championships	Zrenjanin, Serbia	1st	Greco-Roman 84 kg
2011	World Junior Championships	Bucharest, Romania	2nd	Greco-Roman 84 kg
2012	European Championships	Belgrade, Serbia	3rd	Greco-Roman 84 kg
2013	European Championships	Tbilisi, Georgia	8th	Greco-Roman 84 kg
2013	Summer Universiade	Kazan, Russia	3rd	Greco-Roman 84 kg
2014	European Championships	Vantaa, Finland	1st	Greco-Roman 85 kg
2014	World Championships	Tashkent, Uzbekistan	3rd	Greco-Roman 85 kg
2015	European Games	Baku, Azerbaijan	2nd	Greco-Roman 85 kg
	World Championships	Las Vegas, United States	1st	Greco-Roman 85 kg
	Military World Games	Mungyeong, South Korea	1st	Greco-Roman 85 kg
2016	European Championships	Riga, Latvia	1st	Greco-Roman 85 kg
2016	Olympic Games	Rio de Janeiro, Brasil	2nd	Greco-Roman 85 kg
2018	World Championships	Budapest, Hungary	2nd	Greco-Roman 87 kg
2019	European Championships	Bucharest, Romania	1st	Greco-Roman 87 kg

World/Olympic Record

World Championships/Olympic Games Matches
Res.	Record	Opponent	Score	Date	Event	Location	Notes
2019 European Champion at 87kg
Win	4-0	Islam Abbasov	5-1	2019-04-13	European Championships	Bucharest, Romania
Win	3-0	Eividas Stankevičius	5-1	2019-04-12
Win	2-0	Erik Szilvássy	3-1
Win	1-0	Ivan Huklek	6-1
2018 UWW world at 87kg
Loss	4-1	Metehan Başar	1-2	2018-10-27	2018 World Championships	Budapest, Hungary
Win	4-0	Islam Abbasov	5-1	2018-10-26
Win	3-0	Hossein Nouri	4-2
Win	2-0	Artur Shahinyan	4-1
Win	1-0	Eividas Stankevičius	4-2
2016 Olympic at 85kg
Loss	3-1	Davit Chakvetadze	2-9	2016-08-15	2016 Summer Olympics	Rio de Janeiro
Win	3-0	Javid Hamzatau	6-0
Win	2-0	Nikolay Bayryakov	10-1
Win	1-0	Ahmed Othman	9-0
2016 European Champion at 85kg
Win	4-0	Roberti Kobliashvili	5-2	2016-03-13	European Championships	Riga, Latvia
Win	3-0	Laimutis Adomaitis	2-1
Win	2-0	Denis Kudla	6-1
Win	1-0	Kristofer Johansson	5-0
2015 UWW world at 85kg
Win	6-0	Rustam Assakalov	6-0	2015-09-09	2015 World Championships	Las Vegas, NV
Win	5-0	Saman Tahmasebi	3-1
Win	4-0	Damian Janikowski	2-1
Win	3-0	Viktor Lőrincz	3-1
Win	2-0	Ramsin Azizsir	3-0
Win	1-0	Alfonso Leyva	6-2
2014 UWW world at 85kg
Win	4-1	Ramsin Azizsir	3-0	2014-09-12	2014 World Championships	Tashkent, Uzbekistan
Loss	3-1	Saman Tahmasebi	0-4
Win	3-0	Ahmed Othman	10-1
Win	2-0	Pablo Shorey	6-1
Win	1-0	Rami Hietaniemi	1-0
2013 Summer Universiare bronze medalist at 84kg
Win	4-1	Nursultan Tursynov	3-1	2013-07-15	2013 Summer Universiade	Kazan, Russia
Loss	3-1	Maksim Manukyan	0-5
Win	3-0	Beka Rokva	3-1
Win	2-0	Tadeusz Michalik	3-1
Win	1-0	Aslan Atem	3-1

References

^ Bagaterenko, Anton (31 May 2014). "Жан Беленюк: "В Африке я слишком светлый, в Украине – слишком темный"" [Zhan Beleniuk: "In Africa I was too light, and in Ukraine — too dark"]. Tribuna.com (in Russian). Ukraine. Retrieved 30 April 2016.
^ "Жан Беленюк: "Мне не раз предлагали выступать за другие сборные, но я — украинец"". fakty.ua.

[Tribuna-1] Bagaterenko, Anton (31 May 2014). "Жан Беленюк: "В Африке я слишком светлый, в Украине – слишком темный"" [Zhan Beleniuk: "In Africa I was too light, and in Ukraine — too dark"]. Tribuna.com (in Russian). Ukraine. Retrieved 30 April 2016.

[2] "Жан Беленюк: "Мне не раз предлагали выступать за другие сборные, но я — украинец"". fakty.ua.

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