Elina Vaseva ( bg, Елина Васева; born August 21, 1986 in Kyustendil) is an amateur Bulgarian freestyle wrestler, who played for the women's middleweight category. She won the bronze medal for her division at the

2010 European Wrestling Championships The 2010 FILA European Wrestling Championships was held in Baku, Azerbaijan, from 13 April to 18 April 2010. Because of the ongoing dispute over Karabakh between Armenia and Azerbaijan, Armenia chose not to compete at this event for the safety of ...

in Baku, Azerbaijan. She is also a member of Yunak-Lokomotiv Wrestling Club in

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, and is coached and trained by Simeon Shterev. Vaseva represented

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at the

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, where she competed for the women's 63 kg class. She pinned Guam's Maria Dunn in the preliminary round of sixteen, before losing out the quarterfinal match to Russia's Alena Kartashova, with a two-set technical score (0–6, 1–2), and a classification point score of 1–3. Because her opponent advanced further into the final match, Vaseva offered another shot for the bronze medal by entering the repechage bouts. Unfortunately, she was defeated in the first round by Kazakhstan's

Yelena Shalygina Yelena Yevgenyevna Shalygina (born 15 December 1986 in Shymkent) is a Kazakh wrestler. She competed in the 63 kg weight class at the 2008 Summer Olympics, where she won a bronze medal. At the 2008 Summer Olympics, sh ...

, who was able to score five points each in two straight periods, leaving Vaseva without a single point.

References

External links

Profile – International Wrestling Database
Bulgarian female sport wrestlers 1986 births Living people Olympic wrestlers of Bulgaria Wrestlers at the 2008 Summer Olympics People from Kyustendil Sportspeople from Kyustendil Province 20th-century Bulgarian women 21st-century Bulgarian women {{Bulgaria-wrestling-bio-stub