Anastasia Bratchikova

Anastasia Viktorovna Bratchikova
Анастасия Викторовна Братчикова

Personal information
Nationality	Russian
Born	(1989-02-21) February 21, 1989 Yegorevsk, Moscow Oblast, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
Height	163 cm (5 ft 4 in)
Weight	63 kg (139 lb) - 69 kg
Sport
Country	Russia
Sport	Wrestling
Rank	Master of Sport in Freestyle wrestling
Event(s)	Freestyle wrestling
Club	Moscow State Wrestling Club
Coached by	O.U. Chernov
Medal record Representing  Russia Women's Freestyle Wrestling European Championships 2018 Kaspiysk 68 kg 2017 Novi Sad 69 kg Russian National Women's Freestyle Wrestling Championships 2018 Smolensk – 68 kg Kaspiysk 2017 – 69 kg St. Petersburg 2016 – 63 kg Novocheboksarsk 2014 – 69 kg St. Petersburg 2013 – 63 kg Orekhovo-Zuyevo 2012 – 63 kg Ulan-Ude 2011 – 63 kg Perm 2010 – 63 kg

Anastasia Viktorovna Bratchikova (Russian: Анастасия Викторовна Братчикова; born 21 February 1989) is a Russian female freestyle wrestler^[1] from Yegorevsk, Moscow Oblast^[2] who currently competes at the 68 kg weight category.^[3] Bratchikova is a three-time National champion with her latest national title being captured in the August of 2018, in Smolensk.^[4] Bratchikova is also a two-time European champion, having won gold in both Novi Sad in 2017, and Kaspiysk in 2018.^[5]

Wrestling career

Bratchikova started her international wrestling career back in 2010, where she won gold at the Russian nationals for the first time. She then alternated medals through the years, winning two bronze medals, three silver medals and three gold medals, with the latest addition being in August 2018, where she defeated Yulia Maksimova in the finals to reclaim her national title.

European Championships

Bratchikova successfully gained admittance to compete at the 2017 European Wrestling Championships in Novi Sad, Serbia. In the qualification round, Bratchikova successfully defeated French wrestler Koumba Larroque by 3-1, thus advancing to the quarterfinals where she defeated Sofiya Georgieva of Bulgaria by fall. In the semifinals, Bratchikova was met with Elis Manolova of Azerbaijan, Bratchikova managed to win the match by 10-0 technical superiority, thus putting Bratchikova into the finals, where she would meet former foe, European Champion (of 2016, in Riga, Latvia) and Olympic silver medalist, Maryia Mamashuk of Belarus.^[6] With the score being 1-1 going into the second period, Bratchikova won a passivity-point from Mamashuk, and then successfully executed a crotch-lift, making the score 3-1; shortly after, Mamashuk scored a takedown to even the score at 4-3. In the last 30 seconds, Bratchikova scored with a double leg; thus winning the final 6-3 and winning the gold medal, securing her first European title.^[7]

In 2018, Bratchikova would enter the 2018 European Wrestling Championships in Kaspiysk, Dagestan.^[8] In Bratchkova's first match, in the round of 8, she would face with former opponent, Sofiya Georgieva of Bulgaria and would win by 7-0, in the quarterfinals Bratchikova wrestled with Danutė Domikaitytė of Lithuania, winning by 3-2. In the semifinals, Bratchikova would wrestle with Austria's Martina Kuenz, who she would defeat by the score of 8-1,^[9] thus advancing Bratchikova to the finals against former opponent, Koumba Larroque.^[10] In a largely scoreless match, Bratchikova would score a takedown in the remaining 20 seconds, winning the match by 3-1; securig Bratchikova her second European title.^[11]

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