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2012 World Wrestling Championships
The 2012 World Wrestling Championships was held at Millennium Place in Strathcona County, Alberta, Canada. Traditionally, Wrestling World Championships are not held in Olympic years, but in 2012 a female championship was held because the 2012 Summer Olympics included only four of the seven FILA weight classes for females. Medal table Team ranking Medal summary Women's freestyle Participating nations 111 competitors from 28 nations participated. * (7) * (7) * (2) * (2) * (7) * (7) * (2) * (2) * (1) * (2) * (3) * (1) * (2) * (7) * (1) * (7) * (7) * (1) * (1) * (7) * (4) * (3) * (7) * (1) * (2) * (4) * (7) * (7) References Results Book External links * {{WC FILA World Wrestling Championships FILA Wrestling World Championships World Wrestling Championships Sport in Alberta Wrestling World Championships The World Wrestling Championships are the Amateur Wrestling World Championships organized by United World Wrestling. The Men's Greco-Roman Wrestling tournament ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Strathcona County
Strathcona County is a specialized municipality in the Edmonton Metropolitan Region within Alberta, Canada between Edmonton and Elk Island National Park. It forms part of Census Division No. 11. Strathcona County is both urban and rural in nature. Approximately of its population lives in Sherwood Park, which is an urban service area east of Edmonton remains an unincorporated hamlet. The balance lives beyond Sherwood Park within a rural service area. History In Treaty 6, the First Nations ceded their title to the land that would become Strathcona County. Local governance began in 1893 when the North-West Territorial Legislature established an area east of Edmonton as ''Statute Labour District No. 2''. It then grew in size over the following decade and was renamed ''Local Improvement District (LID) No. 517'' in 1913. In 1918, ''LID No. 517'' became a municipal district under the name of the ''Municipal District (MD) of Clover Bar No. 517''. At the same ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maria Prevolaraki
Maria Prevolaraki ( el, Μαρία Πρεβολαράκη; born 21 December 1991 in Athens) is a Greek freestyle wrestler. She competed in the freestyle 55 kg event at the 2012 Summer Olympics and was eliminated by Yuliya Ratkevich in the 1/8 finals. That year, she also won a bronze medal at the World Championships. She won silver at the 2013 and 2014 European Championships. At the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, she advanced until the quarter-finals, taking 10th place. In 2017, she won bronze at both World and European Championships. At the 2018 European Championships, Prevolaraki won one of the two bronze medals in her division. In 2020, she won the gold medal in the women's 53 kg event at the Individual Wrestling World Cup held in Belgrade, Serbia. In 2021, she was eliminated in her first match in the women's 53 kg event at the 2020 Summer Olympics held in Tokyo, Japan. That year, she won silver in the European Championships. In February 2022, she won t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jenny Fransson
Jenny Fransson (born 17 July 1987 in Karlstad) is a female freestyle wrestler from Sweden who participated in Women's freestyle wrestling 72 kg at the 2008, 2012 and 2016 Summer Olympics. At the 2008 Summer Olympics, in the 1/8 final she lost 1:3 to Wang Jiao, then in the repechage round Fransson lost to Ali Bernard from United States. At the 2012 Summer Olympics, she reached the second round, where she lost to Stanka Zlateva. In the repechage, she lost to Vasilisa Marzalyuk. At the 2016 Summer Olympics, she won a bronze medal, coming through the repechage. She won a gold medal at the 2018 European Wrestling Championships and a bronze medal at the 2019 and 2008 European Wrestling Championships The 2008 FILA European Wrestling Championships were held in Tampere, Finland. The event took place from 1 April to 6 April 2008. Medal table Medal summary Men's freestyle Men's Greco-Roman Women's freestyle External linksOfficial website [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yoshiko Inoue
is a female wrestler from Japan. External links bio on fila-wrestling.com Japanese female sport wrestlers Living people 1988 births {{Japan-wrestling-bio-stub World Wrestling Championships medalists Asian Wrestling Championships medalists 21st-century Japanese women ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dorothy Yeats
Dorothy Yeats (born 29 July 1993) is a Canadian wrestler and Commonwealth Games champion. She won gold at the 2014 Commonwealth Games. She also wrestled at Vanier College in Montreal, where she is on the school's Wall of Fame. She once said about Vanier College,I never even considered going anywhere else. I’m glad I came here. I don’t think I could have excelled at my sport anywhere else. Daughter of five-time Olympian Doug Yeats, who won gold at the 1979 Pan American Games, Dorothy participated at the 2010 Summer Youth Olympics in Singapore Singapore (), officially the Republic of Singapore, is a sovereign island country and city-state in maritime Southeast Asia. It lies about one degree of latitude () north of the equator, off the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula, bor .... She won the gold medal in the girls' freestyle 70 kg event, defeating Jinju Moon of South Korea in the final. In 2012, she faced Adeline Gray of USA in the gold medal match at the w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adeline Gray
Adeline Maria Gray (born January 15, 1991) is an American freestyle wrestler who currently competes at 76 kilograms. She is a six-time world champion (2012, 2014, 2015, 2018, 2019, 2021) and a two-time Olympian (2016, 2020), with the silver medal in her event at the 2020 Summer Olympics. She is the first American woman to win back-to-back wrestling world titles since Tricia Saunders in 1998 and 1999. She is also the first American woman wrestler to win six world championships. Early life Gray was born on January 15, 1991, in Denver, Colorado to George and Donna Gray, and has three younger sisters, including fellow wrestler Geneva Gray and began her wrestling career with the help of her father. Career On September 27, 2012, Gray competed in the 2012 Women's World Wrestling Championships in Edmonton, Canada. In her first match against Dzhanan Manolova of Bulgaria, Adeline came out a little slow, then exploded with a great 3 point throw and won the 1st period 3–0. In the seco ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Xiluo Zhuoma
Shelok Dolma also called Xi Luozhuoma or Xiluo Zhuo Ma (born October 24, 1987) is a Tibetan female wrestler from China. Biography Dolma was born in the Tibetan region of Nyingrtri in Kongpo. She first started wrestling for China in 2010 where she participated in the World Wrestling competition in Turkey. In 2011, she won the gold medal for women's freestyle wrestling in the 67 kg class. This marked the first time a Tibetan woman won the international wrestling gold medal. Six months prior to her win in Turkey, she won the silver medal at the National Wrestling Championship. Her win in 2011 qualified her for the 2012 London Olympics. While at Beijing Sport University, she was awarded "Chinese College Student of the Year 2012." In 2013, she won the gold medal in Shenyang city for the 63 kg wrestling event at the 12th National Games of China. Dolma won a gold medal again at the Asian Wrestling Championships in 2015 which took place at the Aspire Dome in Doha, Qatar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Justine Bouchard
Justine Bouchard (born January 12, 1986) is a Canadian freestyle wrestler from Calgary, Alberta. Bouchard won a gold medal at the 2010 Commonwealth Games The 2010 Commonwealth Games (Hindi: 2010 राष्ट्रमण्डल खेल), officially known as the XIX Commonwealth Games and commonly known as Delhi 2010, was an international multi-sport event that was held in Delhi, India, .... References External linksWrestling Canada profile 1986 births Living people Canadian female sport wrestlers Commonwealth Games gold medallists for Canada Wrestlers at the 2010 Commonwealth Games Pan American Games competitors for Canada Wrestlers at the 2011 Pan American Games World Wrestling Championships medalists Commonwealth Games medallists in wrestling 20th-century Canadian women 21st-century Canadian women Medallists at the 2010 Commonwealth Games {{Canada-wrestling-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Taybe Yusein
Taybe Mustafa Yusein ( bg, Тайбе Юсеин Мустафа; born 4 May 1991 in Kubrat) is a Bulgarian wrestler. She competes in 59 kg division and has won a total of six World championship medals and eight European championship medals. In 2021, she won one of the bronze medals in her event at the Poland Open held in Warsaw, Poland. She also won one of the bronze medals in the women's freestyle 62 kg event at the 2020 Summer Olympics held in Tokyo, Japan. In her spare time, Yusein enjoys reading, especially crime fiction Crime fiction, detective story, murder mystery, mystery novel, and police novel are terms used to describe narratives that centre on criminal acts and especially on the investigation, either by an amateur or a professional detective, of a crime, .... In 2022, she won the silver medal in the 62 kg event at the Dan Kolov & Nikola Petrov Tournament held in Veliko Tarnovo, Bulgaria. She lost her bronze medal match in her event at the Yasar Dogu Tour ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elena Pirozhkova
Elena Sergey Pirozhkova (born October 13, 1986) is a Russian-born American wrestler who competed for the United States Olympic team in 2012 and 2016. She was the 2012 World Champion, wrestling in the 63 kg weight class. She won the gold medal at the Pan American championships in 2008, 2009, and 2010. She won the silver medal in 2010 and 2014, and won the bronze medal in 2013, at the World Championships. She placed 5th at the 2011 World Championships. She made eight straight U.S. World Teams (2008–15), and won seven straight U.S. Open titles (2009–15). Pirozhkova was born in Russia but grew up in Greenfield, Massachusetts Greenfield is a city in and the county seat of Franklin County, Massachusetts, United States. Greenfield was first settled in 1686. The population was 17,768 at the 2020 census. Greenfield is home to Greenfield Community College, the Pioneer Val .... She left Russia and moved to the United States of America when she was three years old. She attended ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Olga Butkevych
Olga Butkevych (born 3 January 1986) is a Ukrainian-born British wrestler. She is a European Wrestling Championship and World Wrestling Championship bronze medallist. She was Great Britain's sole wrestler at the 2012 Summer Olympics. Early life Butkevych was born on 3 January 1986 in Zaporizhia, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union. Career Butkevych was brought to Britain in 2007 by Nikolei Kornieiev, the Ukrainian-born coach of the British team, to help with training and to act as a sparring partner for British wrestlers. She began competing for Great Britain at wrestling competitions, including the World Championships, where national citizenship is not required. She took third place in the women's competition at the European Wrestling Championships in April 2011, her first international medal for Great Britain. She placed second in the 2012 Summer Olympics wrestling test event in December 2011. For Butkevych to compete at the 2012 Games, she needed to gain British citi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
