Mariya Stadnik ( uk, Марія Василівна Стадник; Mariya Vasylivna Stadnyk; born 3 June 1988) is a

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-born

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i female

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.Mariya Stadnik
/ref> She is a four-time Olympic medalist.

Personal life

Stadnik was born on 3 June 1988 in

Lviv Lviv ( uk, Львів) is the largest city in western Ukraine, and the seventh-largest in Ukraine, with a population of . It serves as the administrative centre of Lviv Oblast and Lviv Raion, and is one of the main cultural centres of Ukrain ...

Ukrainian SSR The Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic ( uk, Украї́нська Радя́нська Соціалісти́чна Респу́бліка, ; russian: Украи́нская Сове́тская Социалисти́ческая Респ ...

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. She is married to Ukrainian wrestler

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,

Yana Rattigan Yana Rattigan (born Yana Stadnyk; 20 January 1987 in Lviv, Ukrainian SSR, USSR) is a Ukrainian born wrestler who competes internationally for Great Britain and England. She competed in the 2009 World Wrestling Championships finishi ...

, competes in the same weight category as Mariya.

Career

In 2006, Stadnik was disqualified for a period of one year for failing a doping test in 2006. Competing in the freestyle – 48 kg

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, she won gold at the 2008 European Championships in

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and bronze at the 2008 Summer Olympics in

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. Stadnik went on to win gold at the 2009 European Championships in

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, the 2009 World Championships in Herning, the 2019 World Championships in

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, and the 2011 European Championships in Dortmund. At the 2012 Summer Olympics in

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, she was awarded the silver medal. She won silver at the 2016 Summer Olympics in

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, Brazil. In 2018, she won the silver medal in the women's 50 kg event at the Klippan Lady Open in Klippan, Sweden. In 2021, she won the gold medal in her event at the

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held in Warsaw, Poland. In 2022, she won the gold medal in the 50 kg event at the

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held in Konya, Turkey.

At the Summer Olympics

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