Petra Maarit Olli (born June 5, 1994) is a retired

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freestyle wrestler Freestyle wrestling is a style of wrestling originated from Great Britain and the United States. Along with Greco-Roman, it is one of the two styles of wrestling contested in the Olympic Games. American high school and men's college wrestling i ...

. She won the silver medal at the

2015 World Wrestling Championships The 2015 UWW World Wrestling Championships were the 12th edition of World Wrestling Championships of combined events and was held from September 7 to 12 in Las Vegas, United States. Medal table Team ranking Medal summary Men's freestyle M ...

in the Women's freestyle 58 kg-event. In March 2016 Olli won her first European Championship gold medal at the Senior-level in Riga, Latvia, defeating Oksana Herhel of Ukraine. She was the first Finnish woman to win a World gold, defeating Danielle Lappage of Canada in the finals of the

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in Budapest, Hungary. Olli missed the

2019 World Wrestling Championships The 2019 World Wrestling Championships were held in Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan from 14 September to 22 September 2019. The tournament served as qualification for the 2020 Summer Olympics, the top six wrestlers from each category earned their NOCs a qu ...

due to health problems.

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* Living people 1994 births Finnish female sport wrestlers Wrestlers at the 2010 Summer Youth Olympics Wrestlers at the 2015 European Games European Games competitors for Finland Wrestlers at the 2016 Summer Olympics Olympic wrestlers of Finland {{Finland-wrestling-bio-stub World Wrestling Championships medalists European Wrestling Championships medalists World Wrestling Champions People from Lappajärvi Sportspeople from South Ostrobothnia 21st-century Finnish women