Yury Patrikeyev

Yury Patrikeyev

Personal information
Born	(1979-09-28) 28 September 1979 (age 37) Kirovo-Chepetsk, Russia
Height	1.95 m (6 ft 5 in)
Weight	120 kg (260 lb)
Sport
Sport	Wrestling
Event(s)	Greco-Roman
Club	Dynamo Krasnodar
Coached by	Igor Ivanov Aleksey Shevzov Samvel Gevorgyan
Medal record Men's Greco-Roman Wrestling Representing  Armenia Olympic Games 2008 Beijing 120 kg World Championships 2010 Moscow 120 kg 2007 Baku 120 kg European Championships 2008 Tampere 120 kg 2009 Vilnius 120 kg 2011 Dortmund 120 kg 2012 Belgrade 120 kg World Cup 2009 Clermont-Ferrand 120 kg 2010 Yerevan 120 kg Representing  Russia World Championships 2002 Moscow 120 kg European Championships 2002 Seinaejoki 120 kg 2004 Haparanda 120 kg World Cup 2005 Tehran 120 kg

Yury Patrikeyev (Armenian: Յուրի Պատրիկեև, Russian: Юрий Николаевич Патрикеев, born 28 September 1979) is an Armenian-Russian Greco-Roman wrestler. He is an Olympic and World Championships medalist and four-time European Champion. Patrikeyev has been awarded the Master of Sport of Russia, International Class title.

Yury Patrikeyev started Greco-Roman wrestling in his hometown of Kirovo-Chepetsk under the direction of Paul Vertunova. In 1996, he enrolled in the Kuban State University of Physical Education and moved to Krasnodar, where he began wrestling under the direction of the honored coach of Russia, Igor Ivanov. Patrikeyev became a World Champion as a cadet in 1995 and a World Champion as a junior in 1999.

Patrikeyev became a member of the Russian national Greco-Roman wrestling team in 2000. Two years later, he won a gold medal at the 2002 European Wrestling Championships and a bronze medal at the 2002 World Wrestling Championships.

Patrikeyev won a gold medal at the 2004 European Wrestling Championships. Despite becoming European Champion, Patrikeyev lost in the finals of the Russian Championships against Khasan Baroyev later that year and was not included in the Russian national wrestling team at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens. Patrikeyev considered the decision of the coaching staff unfair because Baroyev had long been exempted from participation in international competitions and had the opportunity to conduct targeted training for the Championship of Russia. In connection with this, Patrikeyev had a conflict with the head coach of the Russian national team in Greco-Roman wrestling, Gennady Sapunov, and in 2005, he made the decision to change his Russian citizenship to Armenian. At the same time, Yury continued to live and train in Krasnodar, but later served under the flag of Armenia. He officially left the Russian national team in 2005.

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