Alla Belinska Explained

Alla Belinska
Native Name:Алла Белінська
Native Name Lang:uk
Birth Date:1995 10, df=yes
Birth Place:Ternopil, Ukraine
Country:Ukraine
Sport:Amateur wrestling
Event:Freestyle

Alla Belinska (Ukrainian: Алла Белінська, born 8 October 1995) is a Ukrainian freestyle wrestler. She is a three-time medalist, including gold, at the European Wrestling Championships.[1] [2] She represented Ukraine at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan.[3]

Career

In one of her first senior-level competitions, Belinska competed at the World Olympic Qualification Tournament held in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia hoping to qualify for the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.[4] Belinska was no longer able to qualify after losing her first match against María Acosta of Venezuela.[4] In 2017, she lost her bronze medal match at the 2017 European U23 Wrestling Championships held in Szombathely, Hungary.[5] In that same year, she was eliminated in her first match in the women's 69kg event at the 2017 World Wrestling Championships held in Paris, France.[6]

In 2018, Belinska won the bronze medal in the women's 68 kg event at the European U23 Wrestling Championship held in Istanbul, Turkey.[7] [8] She also competed in the women's 72kg event at the World Wrestling Championships held in Budapest, Hungary.[9]

In 2019, Belinska represented Ukraine in the women's 76kg event at the European Games in Minsk, Belarus. She was eliminated in her second match by eventual bronze medalist Epp Mäe of Estonia.[10] [11] A few months later, she competed in the women's 76kg event at the World Wrestling Championships held in Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan. She also represented Ukraine at the Military World Games held in Wuhan, China and she won one of the bronze medals in the 76 kg event.[12] In the same year, she also competed in the women's freestyle competition of the 2019 Wrestling World Cup.

In 2020, Belinska won one of the bronze medals in the women's 72 kg event at the Individual Wrestling World Cup held in Belgrade, Serbia.[13] In March 2021, she competed at the European Qualification Tournament in Budapest, Hungary hoping to qualify for the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan.[14] She did not qualify as she lost her match in the quarterfinals against Vasilisa Marzaliuk of Belarus.[14] A month later, Belinska won the gold medal in the 72kg event at the European Wrestling Championships held in Warsaw, Poland.[1] [15] She defeated Yuliana Yaneva of Bulgaria in the final.[1] In May 2021, Belinska qualified at the World Olympic Qualification Tournament to represent Ukraine at the 2020 Summer Olympics.[3] [16] [17] A month later, she won the gold medal in her event at the 2021 Poland Open held in Warsaw, Poland.[18] [19]

Belinska competed in the women's 76kg event at the 2020 Summer Olympics held in Tokyo, Japan.[20] She was eliminated in her first match by eventual bronze medalist Zhou Qian of China.[20] Two months after the Olympics, she was eliminated in her first match in the women's 72kg event at the 2021 World Wrestling Championships held in Oslo, Norway.[21] Her opponent Anna Schell of Germany went on to win one of the bronze medals.[21] [22]

Belinska won one of the bronze medals in the women's 68kg event at the 2022 European Wrestling Championships held in Budapest, Hungary.[23] [24] A few months later, she won the gold medal in her event at the Matteo Pellicone Ranking Series 2022 held in Rome, Italy.[25] She competed in the 68kg event at the 2022 World Wrestling Championships held in Belgrade, Serbia.[26]

Belinska won one of the bronze medals in her event at the 2023 Ibrahim Moustafa Tournament held in Alexandria, Egypt.[27] She won the silver medal in the women's 68kg event at the 2023 European Wrestling Championships held in Zagreb, Croatia.[28] [29]

Achievements

YearTournamentLocationResultEvent
2019Military World GamesWuhan, China3rdFreestyle 76kg
2021European ChampionshipsWarsaw, Poland1stFreestyle 72kg
2022European ChampionshipsBudapest, Hungary3rdFreestyle 68kg
2023European ChampionshipsZagreb, Croatia2ndFreestyle 68kg

Notes and References

  1. News: Berkeley . Geoff . 23 April 2021 . Ukraine bag brace of women's wrestling golds at European Championships . InsideTheGames.biz . . 23 April 2021.
  2. Web site: Dubas . Matthew . 13 May 2021 . Sports Shorts . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20210516012155/https://www.ukrweekly.com/uwwp/sportsshorts-26/ . 16 May 2021 . 14 November 2021 . The Ukrainian Weekly.
  3. News: Shefferd . Neil . 7 May 2021 . Chumikova secures emotional win at UWW World Olympic Games qualifier . InsideTheGames.biz . . 7 May 2021.
  4. Web site: 2016 World Wrestling Olympic Qualification Tournament – Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20180115071629/https://unitedworldwrestling.org/sites/default/files/media/document/event/results/results_04_ulaanbaatar.pdf . 15 January 2018 . 18 December 2020 . unitedworldwrestling.org . United World Wrestling.
  5. News: Winters . Max . 30 March 2017 . Larroque claims gold on opening day of women's action at European Under-23 Wrestling Championships . InsideTheGames.biz . . 8 May 2021.
  6. Web site: 2017 World Wrestling Championships . unitedworldwrestling.org . . live . 13 January 2020 . https://web.archive.org/web/20190501222916/https://unitedworldwrestling.org/sites/default/files/media/document/event/results/final-book_1.pdf . 1 May 2019.
  7. News: Pavitt . Michael . Tosun delivers home gold at UWW Under-23 European Championships . 7 June 2018 . InsideTheGames.biz . . 11 April 2020 . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20200113193241/https://www.insidethegames.biz/articles/1065993/tosun-delivers-home-gold-at-uww-under-23-european-championships . 13 January 2020.
  8. Web site: 2018 European U23 Wrestling Championship . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20180612140722/https://unitedworldwrestling.org/sites/default/files/2018-06/results_06_istanbul.pdf . 12 June 2018 . 9 August 2020 . unitedworldwrestling.org . United World Wrestling.
  9. Web site: 2018 World Wrestling Championships Results . unitedworldwrestling.org . . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20200414123246/https://unitedworldwrestling.org/sites/default/files/2018-11/2018-world-championships_final-book.pdf . 14 April 2020 . 14 April 2020.
  10. Web site: 2019 European Games Wrestling Results . unitedworldwrestling.org . . live . 4 April 2020 . https://web.archive.org/web/20200211201847/https://unitedworldwrestling.org/sites/default/files/2019-10/results_06_minsk.pdf . 11 February 2020.
  11. News: Gillen . Nancy . Italian Olympic champions claim mixed team shotgun skeet silver and gold at Minsk 2019 . 28 June 2019 . InsideTheGames.biz . . 4 April 2020.
  12. Web site: Results . https://web.archive.org/web/20191112134942/https://results.wuhan2019mwg.cn/file/RESULTS-7th%20CISM%20Military%20World%20Games-%E6%80%BB%E6%88%90%E7%BB%A9%E5%86%8C.pdf . 12 November 2019 . 2019 Military World Games . dead . 14 February 2020.
  13. Web site: 2020 Individual Wrestling World Cup Results Book . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20201218212337/https://unitedworldwrestling.org/sites/default/files/2020-12/2020-iwc-belgrade-final-book.pdf . 18 December 2020 . 18 December 2020 . unitedworldwrestling.org . United World Wrestling.
  14. Web site: 2021 European Wrestling Olympic Qualification Tournament Results Book . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20210324185322/https://uww.org/sites/default/files/2021-03/final-book.pdf . 24 March 2021 . 24 March 2021 . UWW.org . United World Wrestling.
  15. Web site: 2021 European Wrestling Championships Results Book . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20210425200427/https://uww.org/sites/default/files/2021-04/2021_senior_european_championships.pdf . 25 April 2021 . 25 April 2021 . UWW.org . United World Wrestling.
  16. News: Shefferd . Neil . 8 May 2021 . Armenia and Romania book multiple Tokyo 2020 places at UWW World Olympic Games qualifier . InsideTheGames.biz . . 8 May 2021.
  17. Web site: 2021 World Wrestling Olympic Qualification Tournament Results Book . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20210509161754/https://uww.org/sites/default/files/2021-05/world_og_qualifier_final_book.pdf . 9 May 2021 . 9 May 2021 . UWW.org . United World Wrestling.
  18. News: Rowbottom . Mike . 11 June 2021 . Adekuoroye scatters Rio 2016 medallists en route to gold at UWW Poland Open . InsideTheGames.biz . . 4 July 2021.
  19. Web site: 2021 Poland Open Results Book . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20210704164819/https://uww.org/sites/default/files/2021-06/results_06_warsaw.pdf . 4 July 2021 . 4 July 2021 . UWW.org . United World Wrestling.
  20. Web site: Wrestling Results Book . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20210807164330/https://olympics.com/tokyo-2020/olympic-games/resOG2020-/pdf/OG2020-/WRE/OG2020-_WRE_B99_WRE-------------------------------.pdf . 7 August 2021 . 8 August 2021 . Tokyo 2020 Olympics . Tokyo Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games.
  21. Web site: 2021 World Wrestling Championships Results Book . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20211016114828/https://uww.org/sites/default/files/2021-10/results_10_oslo.pdf . 16 October 2021 . 16 October 2021 . UWW.org . United World Wrestling.
  22. News: Burke . Patrick . 7 October 2021 . Helen Louise Maroulis wins third title at Wrestling World Championships in Oslo . InsideTheGames.biz . . 7 October 2021.
  23. News: Lloyd . Owen . 31 March 2022 . Two golds apiece for Moldova and Turkey at European Wrestling Championships . InsideTheGames.biz . . 31 March 2022.
  24. Web site: 2022 European Wrestling Championships Results Book . https://web.archive.org/web/20220403191311/https://cdn.uww.org/s3fs-public/2022-04/2022_senior_european_championships_official_results.pdf?VersionId=KEoKJnjfNdVsB13voNEJO9gMUHnyIlq0 . 3 April 2022 . 3 April 2022 . UWW.org . United World Wrestling.
  25. Web site: Matteo Pellicone Ranking Series 2022 Results Book . https://web.archive.org/web/20220625194934/https://cdn.uww.org/s3fs-public/2022-06/final-book-matteo_pellicone.pdf?VersionId=qzK3za9J0rNgcVjK8V3USdzHshFpyOIW . 25 June 2022 . 25 June 2022 . UWW.org . United World Wrestling.
  26. Web site: 2022 World Wrestling Championships Results Book . https://web.archive.org/web/20220918183512/https://cdn.uww.org/s3fs-public/2022-09/final-book-2022-senior-world-championships_compressed.pdf?VersionId=zoTz_Ra8zK5EkVhfrZuDG5THXf4.3ik. . 18 September 2022 . 18 September 2022 . United World Wrestling.
  27. Web site: 2023 Ibrahim Moustafa Tournament Results Book . https://web.archive.org/web/20230226201011/https://cdn.uww.org/s3fs-public/2023-02/final-book-rs2-ibrahim-moustafa.pdf?VersionId=Gq8nHiMgxB60VBNUTWq8BLKqDmHLqvcK . 26 February 2023 . 26 February 2023 . United World Wrestling.
  28. News: Lloyd . Owen . 20 April 2023 . Ukraine subjected to defeat in three finals at European Wrestling Championships . InsideTheGames.biz . 21 April 2023.
  29. Web site: 2023 European Wrestling Championships Results Book . https://web.archive.org/web/20230423200920/https://cdn.uww.org/s3fs-public/2023-04/final-book-senior-european-championships_.pdf?VersionId=C4X59O2RAfRiJyBB28sm1SXcoyTBDXpq . 23 April 2023 . 23 April 2023 . United World Wrestling.