Yuliya Tkach
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Native name | Юлія Анатоліївна Ткач | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Full name | Yuliya Anatoliyivna Tkach | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Kovel | 26 September 1989||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Yuliya Anatoliyivna Tkach, née Ostapchuk, (Ukrainian: Юлія Анатоліївна Ткач (Остапчук); born 26 September 1989 in Kovel) is a Ukrainian freestyle wrestler. She is a member of Dynamo sports club.[1] World champion in 2014, she competed for the Ukraine at the 2008, 2012 and 2016 Summer Olympics.[2][3][4]
Career
At the 2008 Summer Olympics, she lost to Randi Miller in her first match.[3]
Tkach competed in the freestyle 63 kg event at the 2012 Summer Olympics; she defeated Yelena Shalygina in the quarterfinals and Marianna Sastin in the 1/8 finals before being eliminated by Lubov Volosova in the quarterfinals.[5]
She returned from a break to start a family to win a bronze medal at the 2014 European Championships before winning the World title later that year.[6]
At the 2016 Olympics, she won her first match Danielle Lappage when Lappage retired injured before losing to Xu Rui in the second round.[4]
References
- ↑ "Yuliya Ostapchuk". London 2012. Retrieved 2012-09-06.
- ↑ "Women's freestyle World medalists". InterMat. Retrieved 2018-09-12.
- 1 2 "Yuliya Ostapchuk Bio, Stats, and Results". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Retrieved 2018-09-12.
- 1 2 "Yuliya Ostapchuk-Tkach Bio, Stats, and Results". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Retrieved 2018-09-12.
- ↑ "Yuliya Ostapchuk - Events and results". London 2012. Retrieved 2012-09-06.
- ↑ "Stars of September Were Commemorated At the NOC Headquarters". noc-ukr.org. Retrieved 2018-09-12.