Dmitry Nelyubin

Dmitry Nelyubin

Personal information
Born	(1971-02-08)8 February 1971 Leningrad, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
Died	1 January 2005(2005-01-01) (aged 33) Saint Petersburg, Russia
Medal record Men's cycling Representing  Soviet Union Olympic Games 1988 Seoul Team pursuit

Dmitry Nelyubin (Russian: Дмитрий Владиславович Нелюбин, 8 February 1971 – 1 January 2005) was a Soviet-Russian track cyclist. At the age of 17 Nelyubin, together with teammates Viatcheslav Ekimov, Artūras Kasputis and Gintautas Umaras, won the 4000 meter team pursuit event at the 1988 Summer Olympics held in Seoul.^[1] Nelyubin was killed in a street fight on the New Year night of 1 January 2005. Murder suspects, natives of Kabardino-Balkaria, were arrested four years later, in December 2008; the trial began in May 2009 and in September 2009 the jury declared one of the suspects guilty of murder.