Aline Rotter-Focken ( Focken; born 10 May 1991) is a German

freestyle wrestler Freestyle wrestling is a style of wrestling. It is one of two styles of wrestling contested in the Olympic Games, along with Greco-Roman wrestling, Greco-Roman. scholastic wrestling, High school wrestling and men's collegiate wrestling in the U ...

. She won the world title in the 69 kg division in 2014 and a bronze medal in the 67 kg category at the 2013 European Championships. At the

2020 Summer Olympics The officially the and officially branded as were an international multi-sport event that was held from 23 July to 8 August 2021 in Tokyo, Japan, with some of the preliminary sporting events beginning on 21 July 2021. Tokyo ...

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she won the Gold.

Career

She started wrestling in 1996 under the guidance of her father, Hans-Georg Focken. In 2020, she won the gold medal in the women's 76 kg event at the

2020 Individual Wrestling World Cup The inaugural 2020 Individual World Wrestling Cup was held in Belgrade, Serbia from 12–18 December 2020. It was a replacement event for the 2020 World Championships, which should have taken place in the same location, but since some criteria wer ...

held in Belgrade, Serbia. In 2021, she won the gold medal in her event at the

2021 Poland Open The 2021 Poland Open was an amateur wrestling event held in Warsaw, Poland between 8 and 13 June 2021. It served as the last United World Wrestling Ranking Series event of the year and played a role with regard to the 2020 Summer Olympics ...

held in Warsaw, Poland. She took gold at the

in Tokyo.

Match results

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Aiperi Medet Kyzy Aiperi Medet Kyzy (; born 30 March 1999) is a Kyrgyzstani Freestyle wrestling, freestyle wrestler. She won the silver medal in the 2023 World Wrestling Championships – Women's freestyle 76 kg, women's 76kg event at the 2023 World Wrestling Champ ...

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Ekaterina Bukina Ekaterina Borisovna Bukina (; born 5 May 1987 in Angarsk) is a wrestler from Russia. She is a silver medalist in wrestling for Women's freestyle in the 75 kilogram range at the 2015 European Games in Baku Baku (, ; ...

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Kamila Czeslawa KULWICKA Kamilla and Kamila are feminine given names used in a number of languages and throughout history with roots in Slavic, Arabic, and South Asian languages and Latin. Both Kamila and Kamilla are popular names in Eastern Europe, Scandinavia, and Ita ...

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Vasilisa Marzaliuk Vasilisa Aliaksandraŭna Marzaliuk (; born 23 June 1987) is a Belarusian wrestler. She is a three-time World bronze medalist and the 2011 European silver medalist. In June 2015, she represented Belarus at the inaugural European Games, winning g ...

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Alla Belinska Alla Belinska (, born 8 October 1995) is a Ukrainian freestyle wrestler. She is a four-time medalist, including two gold medals, at the European Wrestling Championships. She represented Ukraine at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan. Care ...

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Elmira Syzdykova Elmira Syzdykova (born 5 February 1992) is a Kazakh wrestler. She represented her country at the 2016 Summer Olympics and won a bronze medal in the 69 kg category. She has won several medals at the Asian Championships. Career In 2021, Syzdyko ...

, 2-0 , Bronze medal , 3-0 , , 19 September 2019 , rowspan=5,

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Adeline Gray Adeline Maria Gray (born January 15, 1991) is an American Freestyle wrestling, freestyle wrestler who currently competes at Wrestling weight classes#Women's wrestling, 76 kilograms. She is a six-time world champion (2012 World Wrestling Champi ...

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Sabira Aliyeva Sabira Aliyeva (born 25 September 1995) is an Azerbaijani freestyle wrestler. She won one of the bronze medals in the 76kg event at the 2018 European Wrestling Championships held in Kaspiysk, Russia. Career In 2019, she competed in the women ...

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Kiran Bishnoi Kiran Bishnoi, also known as Kiran Godara, is a freestyle wrestler from India. She was a bronze medalist at the 2018 Commonwealth Games. She has also been gold medallist at the Commonwealth Wrestling Championships in 2017. She won a bronze medal ...

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Gulmaral Yerkebayeva Gulmaral Yerkebayeva (born 4 November 1995) is a Kazakhstani freestyle wrestler. She is a four-time bronze medalist at the Asian Wrestling Championships. Career Yerkebayeva won the bronze medal in the women's 75kg event at the 2017 Asian Wrest ...

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Epp Mäe Epp Mäe (born 2 April 1992) is an Estonian Freestyle wrestling, freestyle wrestler. She won the silver medal in the 2021 World Wrestling Championships – Women's freestyle 76 kg, women's 76 kg event at the 2021 World Wrestling Championships he ...

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Enrica Rinaldi Enrica Rinaldi (born 11 August 1998) is an Italian freestyle wrestler. She won one of the bronze medals in the women's 76kg event at the 2022 European Wrestling Championships held in Budapest, Hungary. A few months later, she won the silver meda ...

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Budapest Budapest is the Capital city, capital and List of cities and towns of Hungary, most populous city of Hungary. It is the List of cities in the European Union by population within city limits, tenth-largest city in the European Union by popul ...

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Cynthia Vescan Cynthia Vanessa Vescan (born 7 February 1992) is a French freestyle wrestler of Romanian origin. Background and wrestling career Vescan was born in Strasbourg, France. At the 2012 Summer Olympics held in London, United Kingdom, she competed in ...

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References

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