Cătălina Axente Explained
Cătălina Axente is a Romanian freestyle wrestler. She won one of the bronze medals in the 72kg event at the 2020 European Wrestling Championships held in Rome, Italy.[1] [2] She also won one of the bronze medals in the 76kg event at the 2023 European Wrestling Championships held in Zagreb, Croatia.
Career
In 2018, Axente won a bronze medal in the 76kg event at the European U23 Wrestling Championship held in Istanbul, Turkey.[3] [4] She defeated Francy Rädelt of Germany in her bronze medal match.[4]
Axente represented Romania at the 2019 European Games held in Minsk, Belarus in the 76kg where she lost her only match against Ayşegül Özbeğe.[5] In 2020, she was eliminated in her first match in the women's 76kg event at the Individual Wrestling World Cup held in Belgrade, Serbia.[6]
In March 2021, Axente competed at the European Qualification Tournament in Budapest, Hungary hoping to qualify for the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan.[7] In April 2021, she was eliminated in her first match in the 72kg event at the European Wrestling Championships in Warsaw, Poland.[8] In May 2021, Axente failed to qualify for the Olympics at the World Olympic Qualification Tournament held in Sofia, Bulgaria.[9]
In 2022, Axente competed in the 76kg event at the Yasar Dogu Tournament held in Istanbul, Turkey.[10] She lost her bronze medal match in the 76kg event at the 2022 European Wrestling Championships held in Budapest, Hungary.[11] A few months later, Axente also lost her bronze medal match in her event at the Matteo Pellicone Ranking Series 2022 held in Rome, Italy.[12] She competed in the 76kg event at the 2022 World Wrestling Championships held in Belgrade, Serbia where she was eliminated in her second match.[13]
Axente won one of the bronze medals in the 76kg event at the 2023 European Wrestling Championships held in Zagreb, Croatia.[14] [15] She won the gold medal in her event at the 2023 Jeux de la Francophonie held in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo. In September 2023, Axente lost her bronze medal match in the women's 76kg event at the World Wrestling Championships held in Belgrade, Serbia.[16] She also lost a separate Olympic qualification match against Milaimys Marín of Cuba and she did not qualify for the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris, France.[16] [17]
In 2024, she competed in the 76kg event at the European Wrestling Championships held in Bucharest, Romania where she was eliminated in her first match.[18] Two months later, Axente competed at the 2024 European Wrestling Olympic Qualification Tournament in Baku, Azerbaijan hoping to qualify for the 2024 Summer Olympics.[19] She was eliminated in her first match and she did not qualify for the Olympics at this event.[19] A month later, Axente earned a quota place for Romania for the Olympics at the 2024 World Wrestling Olympic Qualification Tournament held in Istanbul, Turkey.[20] She was injured in her first match in the women's 76kg event at the Olympics, leaving her unable to continue in the competition.[21]
Achievements
Notes and References
- Web site: 2020 European Wrestling Championships Results. United World Wrestling. live. https://web.archive.org/web/20200412124934/https://unitedworldwrestling.org/sites/default/files/2020-02/eucs-rome-final-book_1.pdf. 12 April 2020. 12 April 2020.
- News: Etchells. Daniel. Hristova beats last year's gold medallist Manolova at European Wrestling Championships. 14 February 2020. InsideTheGames.biz. 14 February 2020.
- 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.
- 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. United World Wrestling.
- Web site: 2019 European Games Wrestling Results. United World Wrestling. 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 .
- 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. United World Wrestling.
- 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. United World Wrestling.
- 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. United World Wrestling.
- 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. United World Wrestling.
- Web site: 2022 Yasar Dogu, Vehbi Emre & Hamit Kaplan Tournament Results Book . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20220302085143/https://cdn.uww.org/s3fs-public/2022-03/final-book-ranking-series-istambul-2022-light.pdf?VersionId=BMipbXFVxzXXeonWOfeVdKVeNlWlxYzt . 2 March 2022 . 2 March 2022 . United World Wrestling.
- 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 . United World Wrestling.
- 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 . United World Wrestling.
- 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.
- News: Lloyd . Owen . 20 April 2023 . Ukraine subjected to defeat in three finals at European Wrestling Championships . InsideTheGames.biz . 21 April 2023.
- 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.
- Web site: 2023 World Wrestling Championships Results Book . https://web.archive.org/web/20231104205225/https://d3u2kdyvfaxwhl.cloudfront.net/s3fs-public/2023-09/final-book-2023-senior_world_championships_and_og_qualif.pdf?VersionId=Vw6R1se4WK.11kPw_YnsfzZdbwCSiIiI . 4 November 2023 . 4 November 2023 . United World Wrestling.
- Web site: Qualification System – Games of the XXXIII Olympiad – Paris 2024 – Wrestling . https://web.archive.org/web/20240113060500/https://stillmed.olympics.com/media/Documents/Olympic-Games/Paris-2024/Paris2024-QS-Wrestling.pdf . 13 January 2024 . 11 April 2024 . United World Wrestling.
- Web site: 2024 European Wrestling Championships Results Book . https://web.archive.org/web/20240219213412/https://d3u2kdyvfaxwhl.cloudfront.net/s3fs-public/2024-02/results_02_bucharest.pdf?VersionId=XkE2ZnjNmXYzWNF1si8_Od9HuEOhuMrM . 19 February 2024 . 19 February 2024 . United World Wrestling.
- Web site: 2024 European Wrestling Olympic Qualification Tournament Results Book . https://web.archive.org/web/20240408164811/https://cdn.uww.org/2024-04/final-book-seniors_european_og_qualifier.pdf . 8 April 2024 . 8 April 2024 . United World Wrestling.
- Web site: 2024 World Wrestling Olympic Qualification Tournament Results Book . https://web.archive.org/web/20240514204605/https://cdn.uww.org/2024-05/results_05_istanbul_qt.pdf . 14 May 2024 . 14 May 2024 . United World Wrestling.
- Web site: Wrestling Results Book . https://web.archive.org/web/20240811181048/https://olympics.com/OG2024/pdf/OG2024/WRE/OG2024_WRE_B99_WRE-------------------------------.pdf . 11 August 2024 . 12 August 2024 . 2024 Summer Olympics.