Alena Piatrouna Filipava (; born October 10, 1987, in
Minsk
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) 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
The 2009 World Wrestling Championships were held at the Messecenter Herning in Herning, Denmark. The event took place from September 21 to September 27, 2009.
Medal table
Team ranking
Medal summary Men's freestyle
Men's Greco-Roman
Women ...
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Herning, Denmark
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European Championships
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Vilnius, Lithuania
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.
Filipava made her official debut at the
2008 Summer Olympics
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Beijing
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, where she competed for the 55 kg class in freestyle wrestling, an event which was imminently dominated by world champion
Saori Yoshida
is a Japanese former freestyle wrestler. Starting in 1998, she won almost every major competition, including three Olympic Games, four Asian Games, and 13 world championships, and became the most decorated athlete in freestyle wrestling history ...
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.