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Yury Panchenko

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Yury Panchenko
Personal information
Full nameYuriy Petrovych Panchenko
NicknameЮрій Петрович Панченко
NationalityUkrainian
Born (1959-02-05) February 5, 1959 (age 65)
Kiev, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union
National team
Soviet Union men's national volleyball team
Honours
Men's volleyball
Representing  Soviet Union
Olympic Games
Gold medal – first place 1980 Moscow Team
Silver medal – second place 1988 Seoul Team
World Championship
Gold medal – first place 1982 Argentina Team
Silver medal – second place 1986 France Team
World Cup
Gold medal – first place 1981 Japan Team
Silver medal – second place 1985 Japan Team
Goodwill Games
Gold medal – first place 1986 Moscow Team
Friendship Games
Gold medal – first place 1984 Havana Team
European Championship
Gold medal – first place 1979 France Team
Gold medal – first place 1981 Bulgaria Team
Gold medal – first place 1983 East Germany Team
Gold medal – first place 1985 Netherlands Team
Gold medal – first place 1987 Belgium Team

Yuriy Petrovych Panchenko (Template:Lang-uk, born 5 February 1959) is a Ukrainian former volleyball player who competed for the Soviet Union in the 1980 Summer Olympics and in the 1988 Summer Olympics.

Biography

Born at Kiev, he debuted for Lokomotiv Kiev and, aged twenty, he moved to Soviet Union's most renowned team, VC CSKA Moscow: with this team he won 9 Soviet championships, 3 Soviet Cups, 6 European Champions Cups (1982, 1983, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989) and two European Supercups (1987 and 1988). In 1980 he was part of the Soviet team which won the gold medal in the Olympic tournament. He also won the world title in Argentina in 1982.

Eight years later he won the silver medal with the Soviet team in the 1988 Olympic tournament. In 1989, he was the first Soviet military allowed to play in a foreign country, when he moved to Conad Ravenna in Italy. The following year Panchenko moved to Moka Rica Forlì, where he remained until ending his career in 1994.