Alena Piatrouna Filipava ( be, Алена Пятроўна Філіпава; born October 10, 1987, in
Minsk
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) is an amateur Belarusian freestyle wrestler, who played for the women's featherweight category.
She won the bronze medal at the
2009 World Wrestling Championships
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Medal table
Team ranking
Medal summary Men's freestyle
Men's Greco-Roman
Women' ...
in
Herning, Denmark
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European Championships
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in
Vilnius, Lithuania
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.
Filipava made her official debut at the
2008 Summer Olympics
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, where she competed for the
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class in freestyle wrestling, an event which was imminently dominated by world champion Saori Yoshida from Japan. She lost the second preliminary match to Kazakhstan's
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, with a two-set technical score (3–2, 0–3, 2–4), and a classification score of 1–3, finishing only in thirteenth place.