Zhan Beleniuk
Жан Беленюк
for Servant of the People
July 2019
Kyiv, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union
Aleksej Dobrovolskyj
Oleg Sazonov
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Representing Ukraine | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Olympic Games | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2020 Tokyo | 87 kg | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2016 Rio de Janeiro | 85 kg | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2024 Paris | 87 kg | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
World Championships | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2015 Las Vegas | 85 kg | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2019 Nur-Sultan | 87 kg | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2018 Budapest | 87 kg | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2014 Tashkent | 85 kg | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2023 Belgrade | 87 kg | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
European Championships | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2014 Vantaa | 85 kg | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2016 Riga | 85 kg | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2019 Bucharest | 87 kg | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2012 Belgrade | 84 kg | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2021 Warsaw | 87 kg | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2024 Bucharest | 87 kg | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
European Games | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2019 Minsk | 87 kg | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2015 Baku | 85 kg | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Summer Universiade | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2013 Kazan | 84 kg | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Military Games | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2015 Mungyeong | 85 kg |
Zhan Vensanovych Beleniuk[a] (Ukrainian: Жан Венсанович Беленюк; born 24 January 1991) is a Ukrainian politician and retired Greco-Roman wrestler. He is a three-time Olympic medalist and won the gold medal in the Greco-Roman 87 kg at the 2020 Summer Olympics, the silver medal in the Greco-Roman 85 kg at the 2016 Summer Olympics and a bronze medal in the Greco-Roman 87 kg at the 2024 Summer Olympics. Beleniuk is also a two-time world champion and a three-time European champion. In 2019, he became the first black member of the Ukrainian Parliament.[1][2][3]
Early life
Beleniuk was born in 1991 in Kyiv to a father from Rwanda and a mother from Ukraine. His father was a pilot who studied in Kyiv at the National Aviation University and died during the genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda when Beleniuk was 3 years old.[4]
Beleniuk began wrestling in 2000 when he was nine years old.[5]
Career
In 2010, Beleniuk 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 the 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,[6] and bronze at the World Championships.
In 2015, he won the silver medal at the first European Games in Azerbaijan. On 10 September 2015, after winning against the then-reigning World Champion and then-Champion of Asia, Uzbek Rustam Assakalov scoring 6:0, Beleniuk won gold at the 2015 World Wrestling Championships in the under-85 kg weight category.
In 2016, he won gold at the 2016 European Wrestling Championships, followed by the silver medal at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro.[7]
In 2021, he won the gold medal in the men's Greco-Roman 87 kg event at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo.[8]
Beleniuk was briefly a member of the National Olympic Committee of Ukraine. He left the National Olympic Committee in January 2023 due to disagreement with its new president Vadym Gutzeit.[9] In 2024, Beleniuk won a bronze medal in the men's Greco-Roman 87 kg at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris and subsequently announced his retirement.[10][11]
Politics
Beleniuk was elected a deputy to the Verkhovna Rada in July 2019 Ukrainian parliamentary election as a member of the Servant of the People political party.[12] He was one of the first ten candidates on the party's electoral list.[13]
Achievements
International competition
International record | ||||||||
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Res. | Record | Opponent | Score | Date | Event | Location | Notes | |
2021 Olympic Champion at 87kg | ||||||||
Win | 4–0 | Viktor Lőrincz | 5–1 | 2021-08-04 | 2020 Summer Olympics | Tokyo, Japan | ||
Win | 3–0 | Ivan Huklek | 7–1 | 2021-08-03 | ||||
Win | 2–0 | Bachir Sid Azara | 1–1 | |||||
Win | 1–0 | Zurab Datunashvili | 3–1 | |||||
2021 European Championships at 87kg | ||||||||
Win | 3–1 | Denis Kudla | 1–1 | 2021-04-24 | 2021 European Championships | Warsaw, Poland | ||
Win | 2–1 | Vjekoslav Luburić | 7–1 | |||||
Loss | 1–1 | Zurab Datunashvili | 1–1 | 2021-04-23 | ||||
Win | 1–0 | Oskar Johansson | 7–1 | |||||
2019 World Champion at 87kg | ||||||||
Win | 5–0 | Viktor Lőrincz | 2–1 | 2019-09-16 | 2019 World Championships | Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan | ||
Win | 4–0 | Denis Kudla | 2–1 | 2019-09-15 | ||||
Win | 3–0 | Mikalai Stadub | 3–1 | |||||
Win | 2–0 | Ivan Huklek | 7–1 | |||||
Win | 1–0 | Alfonso Leyva | 5–1 | |||||
2019 European Games Champion at 87kg | ||||||||
Win | 4–0 | Islam Abbasov | 3–1 | 2019-06-30 | 2019 European Games | Minsk, Belarus | ||
Win | 3–0 | Radzik Kuliyeu | 3–1 | 2019-06-29 | ||||
Win | 2–0 | Arkadiusz Kułynycz | 9–1 | |||||
Win | 1–0 | Maksim Manukyan | 5–1 | |||||
2019 European Champion at 87kg | ||||||||
Win | 4–0 | Islam Abbasov | 5–1 | 2019-04-13 | 2019 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 | |||||
2015 European Games at 85kg | ||||||||
Loss | 4–1 | Davit Chakvetadze | 2–3 | 2015-06-14 | 2015 European Games | Baku, Azerbaijan | ||
Win | 4–0 | Maksim Manukyan | 12–4 | |||||
Win | 3–0 | Metehan Başar | 3–1 | |||||
Win | 2–0 | Attila Tamas | 7–0 | |||||
Win | 1–0 | Dejan Franjković | 8–0 | |||||
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 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 |
See also
Notes
- ^ Also transliterated Jean Vensanovich Belenyuk
References
- ^ Штогрін, Ірина (11 June 2019). "Чи пройшла Україна "тест Чепурного", реагуючи на першого темношкірого кандидата у депутати Жана Беленюка". Радіо Свобода (in Ukrainian). Retrieved 15 February 2021.
- ^ "Монобільшість Зе, бюджетні гроші для Шарія та перший темношкірий депутат. 7 "вперше" виборів у Раду | Громадське телебачення". hromadske.ua (in Ukrainian). 22 July 2019. Retrieved 15 February 2021.
- ^ "Ukraine's Zhan Beleniuk reaches Greco-Roman wrestling quarter-finals at 2024 Olympics".
- ^ Melkozerova, Veronika. (14 December 2018). Zhan Beleniuk: Champion wrestler refuses better offers abroad to stay at home: ‘I belong here’. Archived 24 December 2019 at the Wayback Machine Kyiv Post. Retrieved 30 November 2019.
- ^ 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. Archived from the original on 5 June 2016. Retrieved 30 April 2016.
- ^ "Жан Беленюк: "Мне не раз предлагали выступать за другие сборные, но я — украинец"". fakty.ua (in Russian). Archived from the original on 17 April 2014. Retrieved 10 September 2014.
- ^ "The Olympic Team of Ukraine: Rio 2016: Official Handbook" (PDF). noc-ukr.org. National Olympic Committee of Ukraine. p. 28. Archived from the original on 1 December 2018. Retrieved 14 June 2020.
Беленюк Жан / Belenyuk Jean
- ^ "Wrestling: BELENIUK Zhan". Tokyo 2020 Olympics. Tokyo Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games. Archived from the original on 28 August 2021. Retrieved 5 August 2021.
- ^ "NOC excluded Surkis, Shufrych, Shevchenko and Belenyuk from its composition". Ukrainska Pravda (in Ukrainian). 13 January 2022. Retrieved 13 January 2023.
- ^ "Ukraine wrestler Beleniuk wins bronze, retires". ESPN.com. 8 August 2024. Retrieved 10 August 2024.
- ^ "Wrestling Results Book" (PDF). 2024 Summer Olympics. Archived from the original (PDF) on 11 August 2024. Retrieved 12 August 2024.
- ^ "Zelenskiy's Servant of the People party unveils candidates for parliament". Kyiv Post.
- ^ "First hundred candidates on Servant of the People's election list: who are they?". Archived from the original on 19 July 2019. Retrieved 16 August 2019.
- Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Zhan Beleniuk". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 1 December 2017.
External links
- Zhan Beleniuk at United World Wrestling (archived)
- Zhan Belenyuk at the International Wrestling Database (alternate link)
- Zhan Beleniuk at Olympics.com
- Zhan Beleniuk at Olympedia
- Jean Vensanovich Beleniuk at Verkhovna Rada (in Ukrainian)
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- 1908: Frithiof Mårtensson (SWE)
- 1912: Claes Johanson (SWE)
- 1920: Carl Westergren (SWE)
- 1924: Edvard Westerlund (FIN)
- 1928: Väinö Kokkinen (FIN)
- 1932: Väinö Kokkinen (FIN)
- 1936: Ivar Johansson (SWE)
- 1948: Axel Grönberg (SWE)
- 1952: Axel Grönberg (SWE)
- 1956: Givi Kartozia (URS)
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- 1968: Lothar Metz (GDR)
- 1972: Csaba Hegedűs (HUN)
- 1976: Momir Petković (YUG)
- 1980: Gennady Korban (URS)
- 1984: Ion Draica (ROM)
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- 1992: Péter Farkas (HUN)
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- 2000: Hamza Yerlikaya (TUR)
- 2004: Aleksey Mishin (RUS)
- 2008: Andrea Minguzzi (ITA)
- 2012: Alan Khugaev (RUS)
- 2016: Davit Chakvetadze (RUS)
- 2020: Zhan Beleniuk (UKR)
- 2024: Semen Novikov (BUL)
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