Elena Vladimirovna Petrova

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Jelena Vladimirovna Petrowa ( Russian Елена Владимировна Петрова ; born October 13, 1966 in Leningrad ) is a former Soviet judoka who started for Russia in 1993 . She competed in the light middleweight division (up to 61 kg), and in 1992 she won an Olympic bronze medal in this weight class.

Athletic career

Petrowa reached the final with four wins at the World Judo Championships in Belgrade in 1989 , where she was defeated by the French Catherine Fleury . In 1990 she finished fifth at the European Championships, but won her weight class at the Goodwill Games in Seattle by beating Britain's Diane Bell . In 1991 she again finished fifth at the European Championships.

In 1992 there was no longer a Soviet team, but the United Team representing the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS). At the European Championships in Paris she lost early to the German Frauke Eickhoff , after two victories in the hope round she also won the battle for bronze against Catherine Fleury. Three weeks after the European Championships, Petrowa won the World Military Championships. At the 1992 Olympic Games , women's judo competitions were on the program for the first time. Petrowa lost her first fight against Frauke Eickhoff after 47 seconds to Ippon . In the hope round she won against the Dutch girl Jennifer Gal , the Belgian girl Gella Vandecaveye , the Spanish girl Begoña Gomez and in the battle for bronze against the South Korean girl Koo Hyun-sook .

In 1993 she won the title at the Russian championships. At the Goodwill Games in Krasnoyarsk in 1994, Petrova took third place. In 1996 she took third place with the Russian team at the European Team Championships. At the 1997 military world championships, she lost in the final against the Chinese Qi Suxia . In 1998, Petrowa finished fifth again at the European Championships and, as in the previous year, was second in the Military World Championships in Saint Petersburg.

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  1. ↑ According to the Olympic database SportsReference, she won twelve championship titles for the Soviet Union and Russia from 1989 to 2000. The judo database Judoinside only lists three Russian championship titles in 1993, 1994 and 1997. If she had won every league title from 1989 to 2000, it would at least be unclear why she only competed in the 1992 Olympics.
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SURNAME Petrowa, Jelena Vladimirovna
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Петрова, Елена Владимировна (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION soviet judoka
DATE OF BIRTH October 13, 1966
PLACE OF BIRTH Leningrad