Nationality Belarus | Weight 55 kg (121 lb) Height 1.58 m (5 ft 2 in) Name Alena Filipava | |
Full name Alena Piatrouna Filipava | ||
Filipava manhandles Suarez for bronze - from Universal Sports
Alena Piatrouna Filipava (Belarusian: Алена Пятроўна Філіпава; born October 10, 1987 in Minsk) is an amateur Belarusian freestyle wrestler, who played for the women's featherweight category. She won the bronze medal at the 2009 World Wrestling Championships in Herning, Denmark, against Tatiana Padilla of the United States, in addition to her silver at the European Championships in Vilnius, Lithuania.
Filipava made her official debut at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, where she competed for the 55 kg class in freestyle wrestling, an event which was imminently dominated by world champion Saori Yoshida from Japan. She lost the second preliminary match to Kazakhstan's Olga Smirnova, with a two-set technical score (3–2, 0–3, 2–4), and a classification score of 1–3, finishing only in thirteenth place.