Anastasiia Hotfrid ( ka, ანასტასია გოტფრიდი, also

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Anast'asia Got'pridi, born 25 April 1996) is a Ukrainian-born Georgian

weightlifter Olympic weightlifting, or Olympic-style weightlifting (officially named Weightlifting), is a sport in which athletes compete in lifting a barbell loaded with weight plates from the ground to overhead, with each athlete trying to successfully lift ...

who competes in the +75 kg division. She placed 12th at the 2015 World Championships and at the

2016 Olympics ) , nations = 207 (including IOA and EOR teams) , athletes = 11,238 , events = 306 in 28 sports (41 disciplines) , opening = 5 August 2016 , closing = 21 August 2016 , opened_by = Vice President Michel Temer , cauldron = Vanderlei Cordeiro ...

. She won a gold medal at the 2016 European Championships, and gold at the

2017 World Weightlifting Championships The 2017 World Weightlifting Championships were held in Anaheim, California, United States from 28 November to 5 December 2017. Doping bans Nine countries were banned from competing at the World Championships due to their history of doping at pre ...

Career

Hotfrid was born in

Ukraine Ukraine ( uk, Україна, Ukraïna, ) is a country in Eastern Europe. It is the second-largest European country after Russia, which it borders to the east and northeast. Ukraine covers approximately . Prior to the ongoing Russian inv ...

and is married to the Ukrainian weightlifting coach and former Olympic weightlifter

Denys Hotfrid Denys Rudolfovych Hotfrid ( ua, Денис Рудольфович Готфрід, also transliterated Gotfrid, born 5 February 1975 in Magnitogorsk, Chelyabinsk Oblast) is a retired male weightlifter from Ukraine. He twice competed for his nativ ...

. In Ukraine she is coached by her father, as her husband does not want her to compete in weightlifting. In 2015, because of a conflict within the Ukrainian weightlifting team, she moved to Georgia. Her family remains in Ukraine, and hence she spends her time between the two countries.

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* * * * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Hotfrid, Anastasiia 1996 births Living people Ukrainian female weightlifters Female weightlifters from Georgia (country) Olympic weightlifters of Georgia (country) Weightlifters at the 2016 Summer Olympics World Weightlifting Championships medalists European Weightlifting Championships medalists Ukrainian emigrants to Georgia (country) Naturalized citizens of Georgia (country) People from Snizhne Sportspeople from Donetsk Oblast