Name Yelena Shalygina Role Olympic athlete | Height 1.65 m Weight 63 kg | |
Olympic medals Wrestling at the 2008 Summer Olympics - Women's Freestyle Middleweight Similar People Alena Kartashova, Randi Miller, Kaori Icho | ||
Yelena Shalygina (born 15 December 1986 in Shymkent) is a Kazakh wrestler. She competed in the 63 kg weight class at the 2008 Summer Olympics, where she won a bronze medal.
At the 2008 Summer Olympics, she lost to Alena Kartashova in the last 16, but because Kartashova reached the final, Shalygina was able to compete in the repechage where she beat Elina Vaseva and then Lise Golliot-Legrand to win her bronze medal.
At the 2012 Summer Olympics she lost to Yuliya Ostapchuk in the first round.
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