# Dmitry Nelyubin

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Soviet racing cyclist (1971–2005)

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](/source/Russian_language): Дмитрий Владиславович Нелюбин, 8 February 1971 – 1 January 2005) was a [Soviet](/source/Soviet_Union)-[Russian](/source/Russian_Federation) [track cyclist](/source/Track_cycling). At the age of 17 Nelyubin, together with teammates [Viatcheslav Ekimov](/source/Viatcheslav_Ekimov), [Artūras Kasputis](/source/Art%C5%ABras_Kasputis) and [Gintautas Umaras](/source/Gintautas_Umaras), won the [4000 meter team pursuit](/source/Cycling_at_the_1988_Summer_Olympics) event at the [1988 Summer Olympics](/source/1988_Summer_Olympics) held in [Seoul](/source/Seoul).[1] Nelyubin was killed in a street fight on the New Year night of 1 January 2005. Murder suspects, natives of [Kabardino-Balkaria](/source/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.

## Sports career

Dmitry was a son of cyclist [Vladislav Nelyubin](/source/Vladislav_Nelyubin) (born 1947), participant of the [1968 Olympic Games](/source/1968_Summer_Olympics) in [Mexico](/source/Mexico).[2] Dmitry spent his school years at the Locomotiv Sports Society boarding school for Olympic prospects, with four training events every day, in any weather.[3] His most remarkable achievement, winning the 4000 meter team pursuit at the 1988 Olympics,[4] happened when he was only 17, making him the youngest Olympic champion in cycling. At the [1992 Summer Olympics](/source/1992_Summer_Olympics) Nelyubin competed for the [Unified Team](/source/Unified_Team_at_the_Olympics) of the defunct Soviet Union, coming sixth.[2] Nelyubin continued cycling professionally until 1997 with no significant achievements.[5]

## Murder and investigation

At about 5 a.m. of 1 January 2005 Dmitry and a party of his friends went outdoors to launch fireworks at the corner of Lva Tolstogo Street and Rentgena Street in central Saint Petersburg.[2] A group of aggressive young men confronted Nelyubin's party, a fight broke out. Nelyubin was stabbed in the stomach and fell on the snow; the attackers fled the scene. Emergency medics appeared on the scene half an hour after the attack; after four hours of hospital surgery Nelyubin died of a blood loss at 11:40[6] of the same day.[7]

Initial police search of nearby hostels correctly identified two principal suspects, students of a medical college, who had already fled the city.[8] First arrest happened in May 2008 in [Dagestan](/source/Dagestan).[6] In the beginning of December, 2008, investigators reported arrest of four suspects, identified initially only as "natives of Kabardino-Balkaria".[9] Later, names of three suspects were released to the public; name of the fourth, still a minor, remains undisclosed. According to initial prosecution statements released in December 2008, the murder suspect "had mistaken Nelyubin for a [skinhead](/source/Skinhead)"; "he [the suspect] admitted to be present at the murder scene and confessed that he did have a knife on him but claims he does not remember how the incident progressed and ended".[2]

In May 2009 the case against two of the suspects was deemed completed and passed to the court (only one of the suspects is charged with murder).[6] According to the prosecution, the crime had no direct motives,[6][8] thus no [hate crime](/source/Hate_crime) clauses were invoked. However, the suspects insist that the attack, indeed, had a motive: they mistook Nelyubin for a [neo-nazi](/source/Neo-nazi). According to the suspects, on the New Year night one of their friends was beaten by skinheads and called for help; they ran out of the hostel and attacked Nelyubin party, believing that these were the alleged skinheads.[8]

The trial of Azhagoev brothers ended in September 2009. The jury found one of them guilty of murder, based primarily on statements by witnesses; defence said they would apply for an appellation.[10]

## References

1. **[^](#cite_ref-SportsRef_1-0)** Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; [Mallon, Bill](/source/Bill_Mallon); et al. ["Dmitry Nelyubin Olympic Results"](https://web.archive.org/web/20160304103055/http://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ne/dmitry-nelyubin-1.html). *Olympics at Sports-Reference.com*. [Sports Reference LLC](/source/Sports_Reference). Archived from [the original](https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ne/dmitry-nelyubin-1.html) on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 9 July 2016.

1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-SPBT_2-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-SPBT_2-1) [***c***](#cite_ref-SPBT_2-2) [***d***](#cite_ref-SPBT_2-3) ["4 Suspects Arrested In Olympian's Murder"](http://www.sptimes.ru/index.php?action_id=2&story_id=27793). The St. Petersburg Times, 9 December 2008. Retrieved 10 May 2009.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-3)** Volkov, V. Ye (editor) (1988). [*Locomotivu 50 (in Russian)*](http://www.lokomotiv.info/publish/lokomotiv50/?id=147). Moscow: Fizkultura i sport. Retrieved 10 May 2009. {{[cite book](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Cite_book)}}: |author= has generic name ([help](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:CS1_errors#generic_name))CS1 maint: publisher location ([link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:CS1_maint:_publisher_location))

1. **[^](#cite_ref-4)** ["4000 meter team pursuit statistics, 1920-2004"](http://www.abc.net.au/olympics/2008/results/historical/events/220.htm). *[ABC News](/source/ABC_News_(Australia))*. Retrieved 10 May 2009.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-5)** ["Tuesday's EuroFile: Dajka back on track; Nelyubin killed in Russia"](http://www.velonews.com/article/7359). velonews.com, 5 January 2005. Retrieved 10 May 2009.[*[permanent dead link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Link_rot)*]

1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-VZ_6-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-VZ_6-1) [***c***](#cite_ref-VZ_6-2) [***d***](#cite_ref-VZ_6-3) ["Ubil bez vidimogo povoda"](http://www.vz.ru/society/2009/5/8/284860.html) (in Russian). [Vzglyad](/source/Novy_Vzglyad), 8 May 2009. Retrieved 10 May 2009.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-7)** ["Dmitry Nelyubin was the youngest Olympic champion among male cyclists"](http://english.pravda.ru/hotspots/crimes/11-01-2005/7579-cyclist-0). [Pravda](/source/Pravda), 11 January 2005. 11 January 2005. Retrieved 10 May 2009.

1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-GA_8-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-GA_8-1) [***c***](#cite_ref-GA_8-2) ["Ubiystvo chempiona peredano v sud"](http://www.gazeta.ru/social/2009/05/08/2984348.shtml). [gazeta.ru](/source/Gazeta.ru), 8 May 2005. Retrieved 10 May 2009.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-9)** ["4 suspects arrested in Nelyubin killing"](http://www.aol.co.nz/movies/story/4-suspects-arrested-in-Nelyubin-killing/1410011/index.html). Associated Press, 8 December 2008. Retrieved 10 May 2009.[*[permanent dead link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Link_rot)*]

1. **[^](#cite_ref-10)** ["Ubiystvo chempiona... (Убийство чемпиона обошлось без вещественных доказательств)"](http://www.kommersant.ru/doc.aspx?DocsID=1239096&NodesID=6) (in Russian). [Kommersant](/source/Kommersant), 17 November 2009. Retrieved 17 September 2009.

v t e Olympic Cycling Champions in Men's Team Pursuit 1908: Jones, Kingsbury, Meredith, Payne (GBR) 1920: Carli, Ferrario, Giorgetti, Magnani (ITA) 1924: De Martini, Dinale, Menegazzi, Zucchetti (ITA) 1928: Facciani, Gaioni, Lusiani, Tasselli (ITA) 1932: Cimatti, Pedretti, Ghilardi, Borsari (ITA) 1936: Charpentier, Goujon, Lapébie, Le Nizerhy (FRA) 1948: Adam, Blusson, Coste, Decanali (FRA) 1952: Campana, De Rossi, Messina, Morettini (ITA) 1956: Domenicali, Faggin, Gandini, Gasparella, Pizzali (ITA) 1960: Arienti, Testa, Vallotto, Vigna (ITA) 1964: Claesges, Henrichs, Link, Streng (EUA) 1968: Frey, Asmussen, Lyngemark, Olsen (DEN) 1972: Schumacher, Colombo, Haritz, Hempel (FRG) 1976: Vonhof, Braun, Lutz, Schumacher (FRG) 1980: Manakov, Movchan, Osokin, Petrakov, Krasnov (URS) 1984: Grenda, Nichols, Turtur, Woods (AUS) 1988: Ekimov, Kasputis, Nelyubin, Umaras (URS) 1992: Steinweg, Walzer, Fulst, Glöckner, Lehmann (GER) 1996: Capelle, Ermenault, Monin, Moreau (FRA) 2000: Fulst, Bartko, Becke, Lehmann, Pollack (GER) 2004: Brown, Lancaster, McGee, Roberts (AUS) 2008: Clancy, Manning, Thomas, Wiggins (GBR) 2012: Clancy, Thomas, Burke, Kennaugh (GBR) 2016: Clancy, Burke, Doull, Wiggins (GBR) 2020: Consonni, Ganna, Lamon, Milan (ITA) 2024: Bleddyn, Welsford, Leahy, O'Brien (AUS)

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