Jelena Wassiljewna Jegoschina

Jelena Wassiljewna Jegoschina ( Russian Елена Васильевна Егошина ; * December 24, 1972 ) is a former Russian wrestler . She has been European champion four times in her career .

Career

Jelena Jegoschina began wrestling as a teenager. The 1.59 meter tall athlete, who weighed just over 50 kg, belonged to the Trade Union Sports Club Moscow and was mainly trained by Nikolai Garkin. Her international career began in 1992, at a time when women's wrestling was slowly establishing itself but was not yet Olympic. In a sense, she is one of the pioneers of women's wrestling.

In 1992 she started at the World Championships in Villeurbanne / France and took 4th place in the weight class up to 50 kg body weight behind Tricia Saunders , United States, Yoshiko Endo , Japan, and Martine Poupon, France. In 1993 she became European champion for the first time in the weight class up to 53 kg in Ivanovo / Russia and defeated Tatiana Antonova from Ukraine in the final. At the world championship this year she came in 4th place again in the same weight class. The Norwegian Line Johansen became world champion .

In 1994 she only competed at the World Championships in Stavern / Norway. She won her first medal at a world championship in the weight class up to 50 kg with the bronze medal . The world title went to the Japanese Miyu Yamamoto Ikeda . In 1995 Jelena Jegoschina only competed in the World Cup, which took place in Moscow. She started in the weight class up to 47 kg, but also only came 3rd in this weight class behind Miyu Yamamoto Ikeda and the Chinese Zhong Xiue. In 1996 she became European champion for the second time in the weight class up to 50 kg in Oslo, ahead of the young Tanja Sauter from Germany. At the 1996 World Championships in Sofia, however, she had to be content with fourth place in the weight class up to 47 kg.

Jelena Jegoschina won her next two European championship titles in 1997 in Warsaw and 1998 in Bratislava, each in the weight class up to 51 kg. She won both times again in front of Tanja Sauter. At the world championships of these two years she came in 1997 in Clermont-Ferrand on the 6th place and in 1998 in Poznań again won a bronze medal, which she won with a victory over Stephanie Murata from the United States.

At the European Championships in 1999 in Götzis / Austria, she won her last medal at an international championship with second place behind Marta Wojtanowska from Poland . At the World Cup in Sofia in 2000, when the star of Hitomi Obara Sakamoto from Japan rose, she came in 5th place.

International success

year	space	competition	Weight class	Results
1992	4th	World Cup in Villeurbanne / France	up to 50 kg	behind Tricia Saunders , USA, Yoshiko Endo , Japan and Martine Poupon, France
1993	1.	EM in Ivanovo / Russia	up to 53 kg	before Tatjana Antonowa, Ukraine and Agnes Canna-Ferina, France
1993	4th	World Cup in Stavern / Norway	up to 53 kg	behind Line Johansen , Norway, Akemi Kawasaki, Japan and Wendy Magdiel Yzaguirre Gonzales, Venezuela
1994	3.	World Cup in Sofia	up to 50 kg	behind Miyu Yamamoto Ikeda , Japan and Anna Gomis , France
1995	3.	World Cup in Moscow	up to 47 kg	behind Miyu Yamamoto Ikeda and Zhong Xieu, China
1996	1.	EM in Oslo	up to 50 kg	before Tanja Sauter, Germany, Joanna Urbanska, Poland and Ida Hellström , Sweden
1996	4th	World Cup in Sofia	up to 47 kg	behind Tricia Saunders, Angelique Berthent-Hidalgo , France and Miho Adachi, Japan
1997	4th	Klippan Lady Open	up to 51 kg	behind Vicki Zummo and Stephanie Murata , both USA and Angelique Berthenet-Hidalgo
1997	1.	EM in Warsaw	up to 51 kg	before Tanja Sauter, Germany, Angelique Berthenet-Hidalgo and Ida Hellström
1997	6th	World Cup in Clermont-Ferrand	up to 51 kg	after victories over Liu Hong Mei, China and Angelique Berthenet-Hidalgo and defeats to Shannon Williams, USA, Miho Adachi and Erica Sharp , Canada
1998	1.	EM in Bratislava	up to 51 kg	after victories over Olga Orlowska, Czech Republic, Angelique Berthene-Hidalgo, Ida Hellström and Tanja Sauter
1998	3.	World Cup in Poznań	up to 51 kg	after a victory over Stephanie Murata, a defeat against Teresa Piotrowski, Canada and victories over Mirsini Koloni, Greece, Tanta Sauter, Innessa Rebar, Ukraine and Stephanie Murata
1999	2.	EM in Götzis / Austria	up to 51 kg	behind Marta Wojtanowska, Poland, in front of Tanja Sauter and Anne Cathrine Deluntsch, France
2000	5.	World Cup in Sofia	up to 51 kg	behind Hitomi Obara Sakamoto, Japan, Patricia Miranda , USA, Ida Hellström and Innessa Rebar

Explanations

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

swell

• Trade journal Der Ringer
• Foeldeak Wrestling Database website