Olesya Zamula (born February 17, 1984 in
Riga
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,
Latvian SSR) is an amateur Azerbaijani wrestler, who competed in the women's middleweight category. She won the bronze medal for her division at the
2011 European Wrestling Championships in
Dortmund, Germany
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. She is also a member of Atasport Wrestling Club in
Baku
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, and is coached and trained by Semjon Kapitannikov.
Zamula represented her current nation
Azerbaijan
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at the
2008 Summer Olympics
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in
Beijing
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, where she competed for the
women's 63 kg. She received a bye for the second preliminary match, before losing out by a technical fall to Japan's
Kaori Icho
is a Japanese freestyle wrestler. She is a ten-time World Champion and four-time Olympic Champion, winning gold in 2004, 2008, 2012 and 2016. Icho was undefeated between 2003 and 2016. On 29 January 2016 at the Golden Grand Prix Ivan Yarygin 20 ...
. Because her opponent advanced further into the final match, Zamula was offered another shot for the bronze medal by entering the repechage bouts. She was pinned in the second period by American wrestler
Randi Miller
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, who eventually won the bronze medal in this event.
References
External links
Profile – International Wrestling Database
Azerbaijani female sport wrestlers
1984 births
Living people
Olympic wrestlers of Azerbaijan
Wrestlers at the 2008 Summer Olympics
Sportspeople from Riga
21st-century Azerbaijani women
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