Natalya Ihorivna Synyshyn ( uk, Наталя Ігорівна Синишин; born 3 July 1985) is a Ukrainian-Azerbaijani freestyle wrestler, who played for the lightweight division. She is a two-time bronze medalist at the

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, and three-time at the European Championships.

Career

Synyshyn competed for Ukraine in the women's 55-kg class in freestyle wrestling at the 2008 Summer Olympics in

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. In the first preliminary round, she was defeated by

Marcie Van Dusen Marcie Van Dusen (born June 25, 1982 in Lake Arrowhead, California) is an amateur female American freestyle wrestler, who competed for the women's 55-kg category at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. She is a two-time U.S national and world t ...

of the United States, after being taken off the mat by her opponent in the final period, with a three-set score (0–4, 1–1, 7–0), and a classification point score of 1–3. On 11 March 2016, she won

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for

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. She won a bronze medal at the 2016 Summer Olympics.

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NBC 2008 Olympics profile
Living people 1985 births People from Chervonohrad Ukrainian female sport wrestlers Azerbaijani female sport wrestlers Ukrainian emigrants to Azerbaijan Naturalized citizens of Azerbaijan Olympic wrestlers of Ukraine Wrestlers at the 2008 Summer Olympics European Games medalists in wrestling European Games bronze medalists for Azerbaijan Wrestlers at the 2015 European Games World Wrestling Championships medalists Wrestlers at the 2016 Summer Olympics Olympic wrestlers of Azerbaijan Olympic bronze medalists for Azerbaijan Olympic medalists in wrestling Medalists at the 2016 Summer Olympics European Wrestling Championships medalists Islamic Solidarity Games medalists in wrestling Islamic Solidarity Games competitors for Azerbaijan Sportspeople from Lviv Oblast {{Azerbaijan-wrestling-bio-stub