Brigitte Wagner (born November 22, 1983, in Freising, West Germany) is a retired amateur German freestyle wrestler, who competed in the women's flyweight category. Considering one of the world's top female freestyle wrestlers in her decade, Wagner has claimed a gold and a silver medal in the 48-kg division at the World Championships, and seized an opportunity to compete for Germany at the

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. Throughout her sporting career, Wagner trained full-time as a member of the wrestling squad for Siegfried Sports Club in Hallbergmoos, under her coach and four-time Olympian Jürgen Scheibe. Wagner made sporting headlines, as an 18-year-old teen, at the

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, where she took home the bronze medal in the women's 46-kg division. Wagner's early success in wrestling blossomed her career, as she dominated both the 2002 World and 2003 European Championships with two unprecedented gold medals produced in her hardware. When women's wrestling made its debut at the

in Athens, Wagner seized her opportunity to compete in the inaugural 48 kg class. Earlier in the process, she outclassed Russia's Liliya Kaskarakova to snatch both the trophy and Olympic ticket from the Olympic Qualification Tournament in Tunis, Tunisia. She was powerfully pinned by Japan's

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with only two seconds left in the second period during her opening match, but managed to score a 4–3 sudden-death victory over Canada's

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in the prelim pool. Despite missing a spot for the semifinals, Wagner wrestled her way to pin Mongolia's

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in a consolation round, before losing out to Russia's

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with a 1–3 decision for a fifth-place finish.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Wagner, Brigitte 1983 births Living people German female sport wrestlers Olympic wrestlers for Germany Wrestlers at the 2004 Summer Olympics People from Freising Sportspeople from Upper Bavaria World Wrestling Championships medalists European Wrestling Championships medalists 20th-century German women 21st-century German women