Johanna Mattsson
Johanna Mattsson (born 2 May 1988 in Gällivare ) is a Swedish wrestler. It was 2009 European Champion of the weight category to 59 kg body weight
Career
Johanna Mattsson began at the age of seven years with her younger sisters Sofia Mattsson and Lisa Mattsson at a wrestler Club in Gällivare with the rings. Trained they were there Kalle Taivalsaari and Hakan Johansson. In the National Team came as coach added later Fariborz Besarati. Johanna Mattsson was at junior level several times Swedish champion and won the age of seventeen in 2005 its first Swedish championship titles with the adults in the weight class up to 55 kg body weight. After attending school and high school she devotes currently fully the rings. She also works as an assistant coach in a Ringer school in Helsingborg.
Her international career began at the Junior European Championship 2004 ( Cadets ) in Albena, where the title in the weight class up to 52 kg body weight won. In 2005 she was in Vilnius Junior World Champion ( Juniors) in the weight category to 56 kg body weight before Danyelle Hedin from the United States and Alena Malischko from Ukraine. In the same year she also won at the Junior European Championship ( Cadets ) in Tirana in the Gewichtskl. to 56 kg body weight.
In 2006, she competed at the European Championships in Moscow in the Gewichtskl. to 55 kg and finished there behind Natalya Golz from Russia and Ludmila Cristea from Moldova 3rd place. In the subsequent World Youth Championship ( Juniors) in Guatemala City she could in the same weight class her title from last year not defend, but came behind Sandra Roa from Colombia and Alena Filipowa from Belarus to 3rd place and so won a bronze medal.
At the European Championships in 2007 in Sofia Johanna Mattsson lost after a won fight against Ludmila Cristea and thus came only on the 8th Place. But at the World Cup this year in Beijing she won again the bronze medal in the weight category up to 55 kg. No medal she reached then at the 2008 European Championships in Tampere, where again won Natalja Golz. Johanna Matsson finished 5th. For a place at the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing in the weight class up to 55 kg body weight, they could not qualify, because they drew the short straw with the Swedish Olympic excretion in this weight class against Ida -Theres Nerell. She started this at the Junior World Championship ( Juniors) in Istanbul in the non-Olympic Gewichtkl. to 59 kg body weight and was there. claimed victories over Geata, India, Battsetseg Soronzonbold, Mongolia, Tatiana Padilla, USA and a defeat against Anastasia Bratschikowa, Russia, World runner-up
2009, while Johanna Mattsson then the first title at an international championship at the senior. It was in Vilnius with wins over Kitti Grodo, Hungary, Sabrina Esposito, Italy, Julia Rekwawa, Russia and Irina Chariw, Ukraine new European Champion in the Gewichtskl. to 59 kg body weight. After that, she had very bad luck because she suffered a cruciate ligament injury and could not compete, which was very sad at the 2009 World Championships and at the 2010 European Championships, as she was at this time in top form, which is also their victory, immediately before their injury, at the Golden Gala Grand Prix in Baku before Marianna Sastin and Elvira Mursalowa, Azerbaijan proved. Well again, they launched at the World Cup 2010 in Moscow, where she won after beating Natalya Simchin, Ukraine, Alka Toman, India, a defeat against Zhang Lan, China and victories over Alena Filipowa and Kelsey Campbell, United States, a bronze medal.
After a long training camp at the beginning of the year 2011 in South Africa, she was at the 2011 European Championship in Dortmund, not at the start.
International success
Swedish Championships
Johanna Mattsson was 2005, 2006 and 2007 Swedish champion in the weight class up to 55 kg and 2009 in the weight category to 59 kg body weight.
Notes
- All competitions in free style (note: women wrestle only in this style )
- WM = World Championship, European Championship EM =
- BW = body weight
Swell
- Journal The Ringer
- Website " rings in Germany "
- Database of the Institute for Applied Training Science at the University of Leipzig