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Zhan Vensanovych Beleniuk (Ukrainian: Жан Венсанович Беленюк; also transliterated Jean Vensanovich Belenyuk; born 24 January 1991) is a Ukrainian Greco-Roman wrestler and politician. In 2019, he became the first black member of the Ukrainian Parliament.[1][2]

In this name that follows Eastern Slavic naming conventions, the patronymic is Vensanovych and the family name is Beleniuk.
Zhan Beleniuk
Beleniuk with his gold medal at the 2020 Summer Olympics
Member of Parliament
for Servant of the People
In office
July 2019 – incumbent
Personal details
Born (1991-01-24) 24 January 1991 (age 31)
Kiev, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union
(now Kyiv, Ukraine)
Sports career
Full nameZhan Vensanovych Beleniuk
NationalityUkrainian
Height1.75 m (5 ft 9 in)
Weight85 kg (187 lb)
SportWrestling
Event(s)Greco-Roman
ClubSpartak Kyiv
Coached byVitalyj Kisilisa
Aleksej Dobrovolskyj
Oleg Sazonov
Medal record
Men's Greco-Roman wrestling
Representing  Ukraine
Olympic Games
2020 Tokyo 87 kg
2016 Rio de Janeiro85 kg
World Championships
2015 Las Vegas85 kg
2019 Nur-Sultan87 kg
2018 Budapest87 kg
2014 Tashkent85 kg
European Championships
2014 Vantaa85 kg
2016 Riga85 kg
2019 Bucharest87 kg
2012 Belgrade84 kg
2021 Warsaw87 kg
European Games
2019 Minsk87 kg
2015 Baku85 kg
Summer Universiade
2013 Kazan84 kg

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 Genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda.[3]

Beleniuk began wrestling in 2000 when he was nine years old.[4]


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,[5] 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 then the ruling World Champion and then Champion of Asia, 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 at the 2016 European Wrestling Championships, followed by the silver medal at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro.[6]

In 2021, he won a gold medal at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo.[7]


Politics


Beleniuk with President Volodymyr Zelensky in August 2019.
Beleniuk with President Volodymyr Zelensky in August 2019.
Beleniuk in 2016
Beleniuk in 2016

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.[8] He was one of the first ten candidates on the party's electoral list.[9]


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
World Junior Championships Budapest, Hungary 3rd Greco-Roman 84 kg
2011 European Junior Championships Zrenjanin, Serbia 1st Greco-Roman 84 kg
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
Summer Universiade Kazan, Russia 3rd Greco-Roman 84 kg
2014 European Championships Vantaa, Finland 1st Greco-Roman 85 kg
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
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
European Games Minsk, Belarus 1st Greco-Roman 87 kg
World Championships Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan 1st Greco-Roman 87 kg
2021 European Championships Warsaw, Poland 3rd Greco-Roman 87 kg
Olympic Games Tokyo, Japan 1st Greco-Roman 87 kg

World and olympic records


World Championships/Olympic Games Matches
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



References


  1. "Чи пройшла Україна "тест Чепурного", реагуючи на першого темношкірого кандидата у депутати Жана Беленюка". Радіо Свобода (in Ukrainian). Retrieved 15 February 2021.
  2. "Монобільшість Зе, бюджетні гроші для Шарія та перший темношкірий депутат. 7 "вперше" виборів у Раду | Громадське телебачення". hromadske.ua (in Ukrainian). Retrieved 15 February 2021.
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. "Жан Беленюк: "Мне не раз предлагали выступать за другие сборные, но я — украинец"". fakty.ua. Archived from the original on 17 April 2014. Retrieved 10 September 2014.
  6. "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
  7. "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.
  8. "Zelenskiy's Servant of the People party unveils candidates for parliament". Kyiv Post.
  9. "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.


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На других языках

- [en] Zhan Beleniuk

[es] Zhan Beleniuk

Zhan Beleniuk –en ucraniano, Жан Беленюк– (Kiev, 24 de enero de 1991) es un deportista ucraniano, de padre ruandés, que compite en lucha grecorromana.[1]

[fr] Zhan Beleniouk

Zhan Beleniouk (en ukrainien : Жан Венсанович Беленюк, Jan Vensanovytch Beleniouk; en français : Jean Beleniouk), est un lutteur ukrainien né le 24 janvier 1991 à Kiev, spécialisé dans la lutte gréco-romaine. Il est aussi un homme politique.

[it] Žan Belenjuk

Žan Vensanovyč Belenjuk (in ucraino: Жан Венсанович Беленюк?, in francese Jean Beleniouk; Kiev, 24 gennaio 1991) è un lottatore e politico ucraino di origini ruandesi, specializzato nella lotta greco-romana. Dal 2019 è deputato presso la Verchovna Rada.

[ru] Беленюк, Жан Венсанович

Жан Венсанович Беленюк (фамилия при рождении Ндагиджимана; укр. Жан Венсанович Беленюк (Ндагіджимана); род. 24 января 1991, Киев, УССР) — украинский борец греко-римского стиля и политик. Олимпийский чемпион 2020 года, серебряный призёр Олимпийских игр 2016 года, двукратный чемпион мира, трёхкратный чемпион Европы. Чемпион Европейских игр 2019 года в Минске. Заслуженный мастер спорта Украины. Народный депутат Верховной рады Украины IX созыва с 2019 года. Член депутатской фракции политической партии «Слуга Народа»[1].


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