Iryna Merleni

Olympic medal record
Competitor for  Ukraine
Women's Wrestling
Olympic Games
2004 Athens Freestyle 48 kg
2008 Beijing Freestyle 48 kg
World Championships
2000 Sofia 46 kg
2001 Sofia 46 kg
2003 New York 48 kg
2005 Budapest 48 kg
2007 Baku 48 kg
Summer Universiade
2005 İzmir 51 kg

Irini Merleni-Mykulchyn (born February 8, 1982 as Iryna Oleksiyivna Melnyk Ukrainian: Ірина Олексіївна Мельник) is a Ukrainian wrestler, who competed in the 48 kg weight class at the 2004 Summer Olympics and claimed the gold medal. In the same event at the 2008 Summer Olympics, she won a bronze medal.

Merleni was born in Kamianets-Podilskyi, Khmelnytskyi oblast. She is a three-time world champion, and won the European championship once.

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