Mikhail Yurchenko (russian: Михаи́л Ю́рьевич Ю́рченко; born 20 June 1970) is a retired boxer from

Kazakhstan Kazakhstan, officially the Republic of Kazakhstan, is a transcontinental country located mainly in Central Asia and partly in Eastern Europe. It borders Russia Russia (, , ), or the Russian Federation, is a transcontinental coun ...

, who competed for his native country in the Men's Super Heavyweight (+ 91 kg) division at the 1996 Summer Olympics in

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. There he was defeated in the second round by Russia's eventual bronze medalist Alexei Lezin.

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