Yana Rattigan (born Yana Stadnyk; 20 January 1987 in

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) is a

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born

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who competes internationally for

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and

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. She competed in the

2009 World Wrestling Championships The 2009 World Wrestling Championships were held at the Messecenter Herning in Herning, Denmark. The event took place from September 21 to September 27, 2009. Medal table Team ranking Medal summary Men's freestyle Men's Greco-Roman Women' ...

finishing 5th in the 48 kg category and was 7th in the same weight category at the

2010 World Wrestling Championships The 2010 World Wrestling Championships were held at the Olympic Stadium in Moscow, Russia. The event took place between September 6 to September 12, 2010. Medal table Team ranking Medal summary Men's freestyle Men's Greco-Roman Women's ...

. Her most notable performance came in the

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where she won a silver medal, a feat repeated in

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. She was the first woman to win a medal at European championship level for Britain. In 2014, representing England she again won the silver medal at the 2014 Commonwealth Games.

Personal life

Rattigan's brother is Olympic medallist

Andriy Stadnik Andriy Volodymyrovych Stadnik (Андрій Володимирович Стаднік, born 15 April 1982) is a male wrestler from Ukraine. He won a silver medal in the Men's freestyle 66kg event at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. Andriy ha ...

. Her sister-in-law

Mariya Stadnik Mariya Stadnik ( uk, Марія Василівна Стадник; Mariya Vasylivna Stadnyk; born 3 June 1988) is a Ukrainian-born Azerbaijani female wrestler. She is a four-time Olympic medalist. Personal life Stadnik was born on 3 June 1988 i ...

competes in the same weight category as Rattigan and was world champion in 2009. Rattigan married fellow wrestler

Leon Rattigan Leon Rattigan (born 4 October 1987) is a British freestyle wrestler who is in the Great Britain national squad. He started Freestyle Wrestling at the age of ten in Bristol Olympic Wrestling Club under the late legendary coach Amir Esmaeli. Rattig ...

in 2010, and began competing officially under her married name in 2014.

References

1987 births Ukrainian female sport wrestlers British female sport wrestlers Living people Ukrainian emigrants to the United Kingdom Sportspeople from Lviv Commonwealth Games silver medallists for England Wrestlers at the 2014 Commonwealth Games Commonwealth Games medallists in wrestling European Games competitors for Great Britain Wrestlers at the 2015 European Games Medallists at the 2014 Commonwealth Games {{UK-wrestling-bio-stub