Tetyana Lazareva

Tetyana Lazareva Wiktoriwna (Ukrainian Тетяна Вікторівна Лазарева, English transcription: Tetyana Lazareva Viktorovna; born July 4, 1981 in Dzerzhinsk, Nizhny Novgorod Oblast, Soviet Union) is a Ukrainian wrestler. It was 2001 and 2002 European champion and 2000 and 2008 World runner-up respectively in the weight class up to 55 kg body weight

Career

Tetyana Lazareva began as a teenager with the rings. It belongs to the Sport Club Dinamo Donetsk and has been, or is coached by Igor Gomanilow and Grigori Schepeljew, her husband. In addition to the rings, they learned to be a physical therapist. During her career she laid after 2004 and 2008 because of a maternity one longer pause, but then came back successfully on the wrestling mat back.

The international career of Tetyana Lazareva began in 1997, when she participated in the European Championship and the Women's World Cup at the age of 16 years. She took it at the European Championships in Warsaw in the weight class up to 56 kg the 6th Place and in the World Championships in Clermont- Ferrand in the same weight class the 8th Place. In the same year she won her first medal at an international championship. It was in Hradec-Kralove/Tschechien third parties. At the Junior European Championships in the weight class up to 54 kg behind Anne Catherine Deluntsch, France and Yvonne Englich - Hees, Germany, which was then called Yvonne Hees

From 1997 to 2013 Tetyana Lazareva took so far to 28 international championships (Olympic Games, World and European Championships ).

In the junior level it was in 1999 and 2000 Junior European Champion and 1999 Junior World silver medalist. In 2004 she was in Lodz universities world champion in the weight class up to 55 kg.

For the first time in the Olympic Games, it launched in 2004 in Athens. She took it in the weight class up to 55 kg the 8th Place. In 2008, Tetyana Lazareva missed the part in the Olympic Games in Beijing because they failed in the Ukrainian Olympic excretion of Natalya Sinischin. In 2012 she was back again at the Olympic Games in London. In the battle for an Olympic bronze medal she succumbed Jackeline Renteria Castillo from Cuba and finished 5th.

In 2000, Tetyana Lazareva behind Seiko Yamamoto from Japan and before Jennifer Ryz from Canada in Sofia vice-world champion in the weight category to 56 kg. They achieved the same success in 2008 at the World Championships in Tokyo. In the final, she defeated Saori Yoshida of Japan. The World Cup bronze medals she won in 2001 in Sofia and in 2011 in Istanbul.

2001 Tetyana Lazareva in Budapest European champion in the weight category to 56 kg. In 2002, she repeated this success in Seinäjoki / Finland. European silver medalist was Tetyana Lazareva, 2004 in Haparanda. An EM bronze medals she won in 1999 in Götzis / Austria and 2008 in Tampere / Finland.

International success

Notes

• All competitions in free style
• OS = The Olympic Games, WM = World Championship, European Championship EM =

Swell

• Journal The Ringer
• Website " Foeldeak Wrestling Database "