Yuliana Vasileva Yaneva ( bg, Юлияна Василева Янева) is a Bulgarian

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 is a four-time medalist, including gold, at the

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. She also won the gold medal in her event at the

2020 Individual Wrestling World Cup The inaugural 2020 Individual World Wrestling Cup was held in Belgrade, Serbia from 12–18 December 2020. It was a replacement event for the 2020 World Championships, which should have taken place in the same location, but since some criteria wer ...

held in Belgrade, Serbia.

Career

In 2019, Yaneva competed in the women's 65kg event at the World Wrestling Championships held in Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan. In 2020, she won the gold medal in the women's 72kg event at the Individual Wrestling World Cup held in Belgrade, Serbia. In March 2021, Yaneva competed at the European Qualification Tournament hoping to qualify for the

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in Tokyo, Japan. She won her first match against

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of Turkey but then lost her next match against

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of France which meant that she could no longer qualify for the Olympics at this tournament. Yaneva won the silver medal in the women's 72kg event at the

2021 European Wrestling Championships The 2021 European Wrestling Championships was held from 19 to 25 April 2021 in Warsaw, Poland. 428 athletes from 36 countries competed for continental gold at the European Championship. There were 168 Greco-Roman tournament entries, 155 freestyle ...

held in Warsaw, Poland. In February 2022, she won the gold medal in the women's 72kg event at the Dan Kolov & Nikola Petrov Tournament held in Veliko Tarnovo, Bulgaria. In April 2022, she won one of the bronze medals in the 72kg event at the

held in Budapest, Hungary. Yaneva won the gold medal in the women's 68kg event at the

2023 Dan Kolov & Nikola Petrov Tournament The 60th Dan Kolov & Nikola Petrov Tournament, is a wrestling event held in Sofia, Bulgaria between 2 and 5 March 2023. This international tournament included competition in both men's and women's freestyle wrestling and men's Greco-Roman wrestlin ...

held in Sofia, Bulgaria. She also won the gold medal in her event at the

2023 European Wrestling Championships The 2023 European Wrestling Championships was held from 17 to 23 April 2023 in Zagreb, Croatia. Competition schedule All times are (UTC+2) Medal table Team ranking Medal overview Men's freestyle Men's Greco-Roman Women's freestyle ...

held in Zagreb, Croatia. She defeated

Alla Belinska Alla Belinska ( uk, Алла Белінська, born 8 October 1995) is a Ukrainian freestyle wrestler. She is a three-time medalist, including gold, at the European Wrestling Championships. She represented Ukraine at the 2020 Summer Olympics in ...

of Ukraine in her gold medal match. In September 2023, she competed in the women's 68kg event at the

2023 World Wrestling Championships The 2023 World Wrestling Championships was held from 16 to 24 September 2023 in Belgrade, Serbia. Wrestlers get a chance to win 90 quotas for the Wrestling at the 2024 Summer Olympics, 2024 Summer Olympics from the Belgrade Worlds. Any nation wh ...

held in Belgrade, Serbia. Yaneva won one of the bronze medals in the 72kg event at the

2024 European Wrestling Championships The 2024 European Wrestling Championships was held from 12 to 18 February 2024 in Bucharest, Romania. At the 2024 European Championships, in accordance with sanctions imposed following by the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, wrestlers from Russi ...

held in Bucharest, Romania. She competed at the

2024 World Wrestling Olympic Qualification Tournament The 2024 World Wrestling Olympic Qualification Tournament was the last qualifying tournament for the 2024 Summer Olympics. The event was held from 9 to 12 May 2024, in Istanbul, Turkey. The tournament awarded three quota places per weight categor ...

held in Istanbul, Turkey and she earned a quota place for Bulgaria for the

2024 Summer Olympics The 2024 Summer Olympics (french: Jeux olympiques d'été de 2024), officially the Games of the XXXIII Olympiad (french: Jeux de la XXXIIIe Olympiade, links=no) and also known as Paris 2024, is an upcoming international multi-sport event that is s ...

in Paris, France. She competed in the women's 76kg event at the Olympics.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Yaneva, Yuliana Living people Place of birth missing (living people) Bulgarian female sport wrestlers European Wrestling Championships medalists 21st-century Bulgarian women 21st-century Bulgarian people Wrestlers at the 2024 Summer Olympics Olympic wrestlers for Bulgaria 1998 births