Anna Evgenyevna Polovnaeva

Anna Evgenjewna Polownewa ( Russian Анна Евгеньевна Половнева ; born June 4, 1984 ) is a Russian wrestler . In 2007 she became European champion in the weight class up to 67 kg.

Career

Anna Polownewa comes from Krasnoyarsk and came to wrestling there in 1994 as a teenager. She also belongs to a wrestling club in Krasnoyarsk. Your first trainer was Evgeny Lukyanov. Other important coaches in her career were Wiktor Raikow and AW Sutschkow. She is a sports student, wrestler and member of the Air Force.

Right at her first start at an international championship, she became Junior European Champion in the age group Cadets (up to the age of 16) in the weight class up to 60 kg in Bratislava in 2000. In 2002, at the age of eighteen, she was already used at the World Championship for Senior Women in Chalkida / Greece in the weight class up to 63 kg. But she still had to learn the hard way there, because after a victory over Diletta Giampiccolo from Italy she lost in the next round to Lene Aanes from Norway, so eliminated and only came in 15th place.

She achieved a great success in 2003 in Istanbul. She was there in the weight class up to 63 kg junior world champion (age group up to 20 years of age). She relegated Chong Kyi, China, Emilia Drzewinska , Poland and Alaine Berube , USA, to their places. At the European Junior Championships in Sofia in 2004, she disappointed and only came in 9th after an early defeat. In 2005 it was used for the second time at a world championship for senior women. She won in Budapest in the weight class up to 63 kg over Mabel Fonseca Ramirez, Puerto Rico and Otschirbatyn Nasanburmaa , Mongolia, then lost to the multiple world and Olympic champion Kaori Icho from Japan and also lost the battle for a bronze medal against Sara McMann from the United States States. It took 5th place.

In 2007 Anna Polownewa was used at the European Championships in Sofia in the weight class up to 67 kg, where she surprisingly won the European title with victories over Ashlea McManus, Great Britain, Aurelie Gerlac, France, Maria Müller , Germany and Katerina Burmistrowa , Ukraine.

After this victory, she did not appear again until 2011 at an international championship. She lost her first fight against Olga Butkewitsch from Great Britain at the European Championships in Dortmund and only came in 11th place. Her last start at an international championship was at the 2012 European Championships in Belgrade, where she was in the weight class up to 59 kg after victories over Georgiana Narcisa Paic, Romania and Katarzyna Krawczyk, Poland and defeats against Anastasija Grigorjeva , Latvia and Ludmila Cristea , Moldova , came in 5th place.

International success

year	space	competition	Weight class	Results
2000	1.	Junior European Championship (Cadets) in Bratislava	up to 60 kg	before Emilia Drzewinska, Poland and Nadia Meier, Switzerland
2002	6th	"Ivan Yarigin" Memorial in Krasnoyarsk	up to 63 kg	Winner: Darija Nasarowa , Russia ahead of Sara McMann, USA
2002	4th	Polish Grand Prix in Katowice	up to 63 kg	behind Sara Eriksson , Sweden, Lyubow Michailowna Wolossowa , Russia and Wolha Chilko , Belarus
2002	5.	World Cup in Cairo	up to 63 kg	behind Kaori Icho, Japan, Meng Lili , China, Viola Yanik, Canada and Lyubow Michailowna Wolossowa
2002	15th	World Cup in Chalkida / Greece	up to 63 kg	after defeating Diletta Giampiccolo, Italy and losing to Lene Aanes, Norway
2003	1.	Junior World Championships in Istanbul	up to 63 kg	ahead of Chong Kyi, China, Emilie Drzewinska and Alaine Berube, USA
2003	7th	World Cup in Tokyo	up to 63 kg	Winner: Kaori Icho, Japan ahead of Sara McMann and Su Huihua, China
2004	9.	Junior European Championship in Sofia	up to 63 kg	Winner: Emilia Drzewinska ahead of Julia Ratkewitsch , Belarus and Maria Müller, Germany
2004	3.	World Cup in Tokyo	up to 63 kg	behind Kaori Icho and Helen Mennick, Canada
2005	1.	"Alexander Medved" Prize in Minsk	up to 63 kg	before Natalja Kuksina , Russia and Oxana Schlikowa, Ukraine
2005	4th	World Cup in Clermont-Ferrand	up to 63 kg	behind Kaori Icho Oxana Schalikowa and Meryem Selloum, France
2005	5.	World Cup in Budapest	up to 63 kg	after victories over Mabel Fonseca Ramirez, Puerto Rico and Otschirbatyn Nasanburmaa , Mongolia and defeats against Kaori Icho and Sara McMann
2006	4th	World Cup in Nagoya	up to 63 kg	behind Kaori Icho, Xu Haiyan, China and Sara McMann
2007	3.	"Dave Schultz" Memorial in Colorado Springs	up to 63 kg	behind Randi Miller and Sara McMann, both USA
2007	5.	Klippan Lady Open	up to 63 kg	behind Sara McMann, Agoro Papavasileiou, Greece, Monika Ewa Michalik , Poland and Helena Alandi , Sweden
2007	6th	World Cup in Krasnoyarsk	up to 63 kg	Winner: Jing Rui-Xue , China ahead of Mio Nishimaki , Japan
2007	1.	EM in Sofia	up to 67 kg	after victories over Ashlea McManus, Great Britain, Aurelie Gerlac, France, Maria Müller and Katerina Burmistrowa, Ukraine
2008	2.	Cup tournament in Chekhov	up to 67 kg	behind Natalja Kuksina, in front of Evgenia Atamanova and Darima Sanschejewa, all Russia
2010	1.	Cup tournament in Chekhov	up to 59 kg	in front of Tschargalma Zyrenowa , Russia, Tatjana Padilla , USA and Valerija Scholobowa , Russia
2011	1.	Cup tournament in Chekhov	up to 59 kg	in front of Swetlana Lipatowa, Russia and Hanna Wassylenko , Ukraine
2011	1.	"Ivan Yarigin" Golden Grand Prix in Krasnoyarsk	up to 59 kg	before Tschargalma Zyrenowa and Galina Doltschenko, both Russia
2011	2.	Tourcoing Grand Prix	up to 59 kg	behind Li Hui , China, in front of Aurelie Gerlac and Trinity Plessinger, USA
2011	1.	World Cup in Lievin	up to 59 kg	before Li Hui, Sorondsonboldyn Battsetseg , Mongolia and Kelsey Campbell , USA
2011	11.	EM in Dortmund	up to 59 kg	after losing to Olga Butkewitsch, Great Britain
2012	1.	"Ivan Yarigin" Golden Grand Prix in Krasnoyarsk	up to 59 kg	before Anastasija Grigorjeva and Hanna Wassylenko
2012	3.	Intern. Tournament in Kiev	up to 59 kg	behind Jekaterina Melnikowa, Russia and Julia Malik, Ukraine
2012	5.	EM in Belgrade	up to 59 kg	after victories over Georgiana Narcisa Paic, Romania and Katarzyna Krawczyk, Poland and defeats against Anastasija Grigorjeva and Ludmila Cristea, Moldova
2012	7th	Golden Grand Prix in Baku	up to 59 kg	Winner: Yai Sakano, Japan ahead of Hanna Wassylenko and Irina Netrebo, Azerbaijan
2012	3.	Cup tournament in Lobnja / Russia	up to 63 kg	behind Irina Bogdanowa u. Inna Traschukowa, both from Russia
2013	2.	"Ivan Yarigin" Golden Grand Prix in Krasnoyarsk	up to 59 kg	behind Tschargalma Zyrnowa, in front of Anaka Ito, Japan and Svetlana Lipatowa
2013	1.	Intern. Tournament in Kiev	up to 59 kg	before Swetlana Lipatowa, Tatjana Lavrentschuk and Karina Stankowa, both Ukraine

Russian championships

(as far as known)

year	space	Weight class	Results
2007	2.	up to 63 kg
2008	3.	up to 63 kg	behind Alena Kartaschowa and Lyubow Michailowna Wolossowa
2011	3.	up to 59 kg	behind Valerija Scholobowa and Ekaterina Melnikowa
2012	3.	up to 59 kg	behind Jekaterina Melnikow and Natalja Golz , together with Tschargalma Zyrenowa

Explanations

• all free style competitions
• WM = World Championship, EM = European Championship

swell

• Trade journal Der Ringer