Anna Zhigalova Explained
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| Anna Poliakova |
| Birth Name: | Anna Zhigalova |
| Fullname: | Полякова Анна Сергеевна |
| Birth Date: | 1981 12, df=yes |
| Birth Place: | Izhevsk, Udmurt, USSR |
| Years Active: | 2003–Present |
| Height: | 186cm |
| Weight: | 165kg[1] |
| Sport: | Sumo |
| Medaltemplates: | [2] |
Anna Poliakova (maiden name Anna Zhigalova)[3] [4] is a Russian amateur sumo wrestler. She has won gold medals in both the heavyweight and openweight categories in the 2009, 2013 and 2017 World Games.[5] She has also won seven golds at the Sumo World Championships. In 2018 she was nominated for the World Games Athlete of the Year award.[5]
Biography
She was born in Izhevsk, Udmurt Republic.[6]
She played volleyball from the age of six to twelve,[6] and handball between from thirteen to twenty-one.[3] She is a graduate from Udmurt State University.[6] She has experience working as a swimming instructor in kindergarten.[3] She began Sumo training at September 2003.[6]
Competition
- She won the heavyweight class on 28 October 2012, at the 9th World Sumo Championships in Wan Chai.[7]
- In 2013, she won the heavyweight and openweight divisions of the World Games 2013 Women's Sumo held in Cali, Colombia.[4] [8]
- On 18 and 19 October of the same year, he won the heavyweight and openweight divisions at the 2nd World Combat Games Women's Championship held in St. Petersburg, Russia.
- On 31 August 2014, she won the Openweight class at the 10th World Women's Sumo Championships held in Kaohsiung, Taiwan.
- On 30 July 2016, she won the 12th World Women's Sumo Championships in Mongolia in the individual open weight class.
- On 22 and 23 July 2017, she won the women's division of the 10th World Games 2017 in Wroclaw, Poland, in the heavyweight and openweight divisions.
- On 22 July 2018, she won the 13th World Women's Sumo Championships openweight individual competition at the Taoyuan Arena in Taiwan.
- On 13 October 2019, she won the individual heavyweight class at the 14th World Women's Sumo Championships held at Ohama Sumo Stadium in Sakai City, Japan.
Notes and References
- Web site: Самозащита . ГБОУ Школа . 2017 . 2019-10-19 .
- https://www.theworldgames.org/results#athlete=Anna%20POLIAKOVA:10298
- Web site: "Мне не страшно". Как сумоистка Анна Полякова стала сильнейшей в мире. 16 August 2016.
- Web site: 平成25年の試合記録・結果 . 2013 Match Records / Results . Japan Sumo Federation . ja . 22 August 2022.
- Web site: Peerless Zhigalova dominates women's sumo. 17 April 2019. Japan Times. 17 April 2019.
- Web site: Новости » Заслуженный Мастер Спорта Анна Полякова - самая титулованная сумоистка в мире! | Федерация сумо России. 3 July 2021.
- Web site: 9th Women's Sumo World Championships Results . 21 May 2013 . 4 March 2016 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160304104732/http://www.ifs-sumo.org/pdf/World_Men_18.pdf . dead .
- Web site: World Games 2013 Cali result book: Sumo . worldgames2013.sportresult.com . Swiss Timing . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20160913082049/http://worldgames2013.sportresult.com/nh/en/300/Pdf/GetResultbookPdf?filename=Resultbook%2FSumo.pdf . 2016-09-13.
