Iwona Matkowska
Iwona Matkowska ( born May 28, 1982 in Zary ) is a Polish wrestler. It was 2012 European Champion in the weight category to 51 kg body weight.
Career
Iwona Matkowska began as a teenager in 1993 when Sports Club Agra Zary, which it still belongs to the rings. Since that time, Ryszard Dynowski is her coach. Another coach nor was added in January Grudlewski. She studied sports, but for some years members of the Polish armed forces.
Iwona Matkowska has so far participated in her long career of 27 World or European Championships ( in the Junior Women, with the ladies at Universities World Cup and in military -WM). For the first time they started doing in 1998 at an international championship and was here in Manchester in the weight class up to 52 kg Junior World runner-up ( Cadets ). Vice World Champion, she was also in 2000 in Nantes in the Junior Women in the weight class up to 50 kg. She was defeated only in the finale of the Japanese Chiharu Icho.
In 2002, she competed at the European Championships for Women in Seinäjoki / Finland, where they, with a 4th place just missing a medal in the weight category up to 48 kg, in which they should go to the start until 2012. In the same year she also launched for the first time at a Women's World Cup. In Chalkida / Greece but she had to settle for 19th place here after a defeat against Inga Karamtschakowa from Russia.
The first medal at a championship in the women they then won in 2005 at the European Championships in Varna. She defeated among others there Anne Cathrine Deluntsch from France and Sigrun Dobner from Germany and only lost in the final battle against Lorissa Oorsak from Russia. A year later, in 2006, she then won in Guangzhou / China, their first medal at a World Cup. She won 3rd place and there she received a World Cup bronze medal.
In 2008 she won at the European Championships in Tampere again a bronze medal, which secured after a defeat against Vanessa Boubryemm from France with victories over Natalya Budu of Moldova and Kebic Burcu from Turkey. Then it did not succeed, to qualify in the Olympic qualifying tournament in Edmonton, as she finished the 21th Place and in Haparanda, where she finished 5th for the Olympic Games in Beijing.
More bronze medals they won then again at the European Championships 2010 in Baku and in 2011 in Dortmund. In Baku they lost the semi-final against Lorissa Oorsak and won the battle for the bronze medal on Matwejewa Lenka from Slovakia and in Dortmund succeeded indeed a victory over Lorissa Oorsak, but then she lost in the semifinals against the starting for Azerbaijan Ukrainian Maria Stadnik. The bronze medal she secured then with a victory over the sister of Maria Stadnik, Jana Stadnik, which was launched for the UK.
In 2012, Iwona Matkowska finally succeeded at the European Championships in Belgrade, the first title at an international championship, apart from her victory at the World Military Championships 2010 in Lahti. Iwona Matkowska started in Belgrade here for the first time after many years in the weight category up to 51 kg and defeated on the way to their success Karolina Tjapko from Latvia, Burcu Kebis, Katja Krasnowa from Russia and Alexandra Kogut from Ukraine.
Iwona Matkowska is thirteen times Polish Champion (including juniors title ). Qualifying for the 2012 Olympic Games in London has not yet but to make it because she took at the 2011 World Championships in Istanbul after a defeat in the first round against Clarissa Chun of the United States only the 30th place.
International success
Notes
- All competitions in free style
- WM = World Championship, European Championship EM =
Swell
- Journal The Ringer
- Website " Foeldeak Wrestling Database "
- Website " www.almanach - sportu.pl "