Yuri Evseitchik

Yuri Evseitchik was born in 1971 in Ukraine

Evseitchik was born on January 23, 1971, in Donetsk in the Soviet Union, now in Ukraine. He began training in wrestling at age 9. In 1989 he won gold at the European Junior Championships in Germany in the up to 115 kg class.

After Ukraine became independent, he competed for it and placed fifth at the 1995 World Championships in Prague. He later moved to Israel and joined the Maccabi Eilat club, coached by Boris Tabachnik and Leonid Shulman.

He began representing Israel in 1998 and won bronze in the 130 kg class at the World Championships in Gävle, Sweden. At the 2000 Sydney Olympics he won three bouts, lost the semifinal to Rulon Gardner in overtime and lost the bronze medal match to Dmitry Debelka, finishing fourth.

He kept competing at European and World Championships through 2003. At the 2004 Athens Olympics he lost to Mijaín López and Yekta Yılmaz Gül and finished 19th. He retired from wrestling after those Games.