Johanna Mattsson

Johanna Mattsson (born May 2, 1988 in Gällivare ) is a Swedish wrestler . In 2009 and 2014 she became European champion in the weight class up to 59 kg and 60 kg body weight, respectively.

Career

Johanna Mattsson started wrestling at the age of seven with her younger sisters Sofia Mattsson and Lisa Mattsson at a wrestling club in Gällivare. They were trained there by Kalle Taivalsaari and Hakan Johansson. Fariborz Besarati later joined the national team as coach. Johanna Mattsson was Swedish champion several times in the junior division and won her first Swedish championship title among adults in the weight class up to 55 kg in 2005 when she was seventeen. After attending school and graduating from high school, she is currently fully dedicated to wrestling. She also works as an assistant trainer in a wrestling school in Helsingborg.

Her international career began at the 2004 Junior European Championships (Cadets) in Albena , where she won the title in the weight class up to 52 kg body weight. In 2005 she was Junior World Champion (Juniors) in Vilnius in the weight class up to 56 kg body weight, ahead of Danyelle Hedin from the United States and Alena Malischko from the Ukraine . In the same year she also won the Junior European Championship (Cadets) in Tirana in the weight class up to 56 kg body weight.

In 2006 she started at the European Championships in Moscow in the weight class up to 55 kg body weight, where she finished third behind Natalja Golz from Russia and Ludmila Cristea from Moldova . At the subsequent Junior World Championship (Juniors) in Guatemala City , she was unable to defend her title from the previous year in the same weight class, but came in third behind Sandra Roa from Colombia and Alena Filipawa from Belarus and thus won a bronze medal.

At the European Championships 2007 in Sofia , Johanna Mattsson lost after winning a fight against Ludmila Cristea and only came 8th. At this year's World Championships in Beijing , however, she again won the bronze medal in the weight class up to 55 kg body weight. She did not achieve a medal at the 2008 European Championships in Tampere , where Natalja Golz won again. Johanna Matsson took 5th place. For a starting place at the Olympic Games in Beijing in 2008 in the weight class up to 55 kg body weight, she could not qualify because she drew the short straw in the Swedish Olympic qualification in this weight class against Ida-Theres Nerell . She started at the Junior World Championship (Juniors) in Istanbul in the non-Olympic weight class up to 59 kg body weight and was runner-up there after victories over Geata, India , Sorondsonboldyn Battsetseg , Mongolia , Tatjana Padilla , USA and a defeat against Anastassija Bratchikova , Russia -World champion.

In 2009 Johanna Mattsson won her first title in an international championship among senior women. She became the new European weight class champion in Vilnius with victories over Kitti Grodo, Hungary , Sabrina Esposito, Italy , Julia Rekwawa , Russia and Irina Chariw , Ukraine. up to 59 kg body weight. After that she was very unlucky because she suffered a cruciate ligament rupture and could not compete at the 2009 World Cup and 2010 European Championship , which was a shame because she was in top form at that time, which was also her victory, immediately before her injury. at the Golden Gala Grand Prix in Baku in front of Marianna Sastin and Elwira Mursalowa , Azerbaijan . Recovered, she started at the 2010 World Cup in Moscow , where she won a bronze medal after victories over Natalja Simchin, Ukraine, Alka Toman, India, a defeat against Zhang Lan , China and victories over Alena Filipawa and Kelsey Campbell , USA.

After a long training stay in South Africa at the beginning of 2011 , she did not compete at the 2011 European Championships in Dortmund or the World Championships . In the Olympic year 2012 she took part in the European championship in the weight class up to 63 kg in Belgrade in March. She lost her first fight there against Julia Tkach , Ukraine, but was able to continue in the consolation round, as Julia Tkach reached the final. In the consolation round she first defeated ex-world champion Audrey Prieto from France, but then lost in the battle for a bronze medal against Elif Jale Yesilirmak from Turkey and came in 5th place.

Shortly after this championship, Johanna Mattsson was seriously injured. She suffered a torn cruciate ligament and a severe meniscus injury. She therefore had to undergo a total of four operations and was unable to train or take part in competitions for almost two years. She made her first start after this serious injury in February 2014. She took 3rd place at the Klippan Ladies Open in the weight class up to 60 kg. So she went optimistically to the European Championship in Vantaa / Finland in April 2014. Her optimism was justified because she won her second European title there in the same weight class with victories over Swetlana Lipatowa , Russia, Taybe Jusein , Bulgaria and Hafize Sahin , Turkey.

International success

year	space	competition	Weight class	Result
2004	1.	Nordic Junior Championship (Juniors)	up to 52 kg	in front of Marika Stenberg u. Jenni Palomäki, bde. Finland
2004	1.	Junior European Championship (Cadets) in Albena	up to 52 kg	before Tiina Vainionpaeae, Finland a. Violeta Simenova, Bulgaria
2005	1.	Nordic Junior Championship (Juniors)	up to 56 kg	before Kristina Ness u. Solfrid Holm, bde. Norway
2005	1.	Junior World Championships (Juniors) in Vilnius	up to 55 kg	before Danyelle Hedin, USA a . Alena Malischko, Ukraine
2005	1.	Junior European Championship (Cadets) in Tirana	up to 56 kg	in front of Ganna Fafenront, Ukraine a. Emriye Musta, Turkey
2006	3.	Klippan Lady Open	up to 55 kg	behind Natalja Golz , Russia a . Anna Gomis , France
2006	3.	EM in Moscow	up to 55 kg	behind Natalja Golz u. Ludmila Cristea , Moldova , ahead of Jessica Bechtel , Germany
2006	5.	German Grand Prix in Dormagen	up to 55 kg	behind Ida-Theres Nerell , Sweden , Minerva Montero Perez, Spain , Nicole Hauptmann, Germany a. Maria Ivanova, Belarus
2006	3.	Golden Grand Prix in Baku	up to 55 kg	behind Chikako Matsukawa , Japan a . Anna Gomis, in front of Tonya Verbeek , Canada
2006	3.	Junior World Championships (Juniors) in Guatemala City	up to 55 kg	behind Sandra Roa , Columbia a . Alena Filipawa , Belarus
2006	16.	World Cup in Guangzhou	up to 59 kg	after losing to Marianna Sastin , Hungary
2007	3.	Klippan Lady Open	up to 55 kg	behind Anna Gomis u. Sofia Poumpouridou , Greece
2007	1.	Haparanda Cup	up to 55 kg	before Hyllegaard Pedersen, Denmark a . Wiktoria Kalndrowa, Kazakhstan
2007	8th.	EM in Sofia	up to 55 kg	after victory over Valentina Minguzzi, Italy a . Loss to Ludmila Cristea
2007	1.	German Grand Prix in Dormagen	up to 55 kg	before Natalja Smirnowa , Russia a. Britannee Lavedure , Canada
2007	1.	Dan Kolov Memorial in Sofia	up to 55 kg	before Naidangiin Otgondschargal , Mongolia a . Zeynep Yildirim, Turkey
2007	3.	World Cup in Beijing	up to 55 kg	after a defeat against Qiu Hongmei , China a . Wins over Irina Chariw u. Aischan Ismagulova, Kazakhstan
2008	2.	Klippan Lady Open	up to 55 kg	behind Anna Zwirydowska , Poland, in front of Sylwia Bilenska, Poland
2008	1.	Haparanda Cup	up to 55 kg	before Lisa Mattsson , Sweden a. Tiina Vaionionpaeae, Finland
2008	5.	EM in Tampere	up to 55 kg	behind Natalja Golz, Ludmila Cristea, Sofia Poumpouridou u. Tetiana Lazareva , Bulgaria
2008	1.	German Grand Prix in Dormagen	up to 55 kg	before Anna Filipawa u. Fabienne Wittenwiler , Switzerland
2008	2.	Junior World Championships (Juniors) in Istanbul	up to 59 kg	after victories over Deata, India , Sorondsonboldyn Battsetseg , Mongolia a. Tatjana Padilla , USA a. a loss to Anastassija Bratchikova , Russia
2009	1.	Klippan Lady Open	up to 59 kg	before Julia Rekwawa , Russia a. Kelsey Campbell , USA
2009	1.	EM in Vilnius	up to 59 kg	after victories over Kitti Fodo, Hungary , Sabrina Esposito, Spain, Julia Rekwawa u. Irina Khariw, Ukraine
2009	1.	German Grand Prix in Dormagen	up to 59 kg	before Natascha Ballas , Germany a. Elena Kulikova, Russia
2009	1.	Austrian Lady Open in Götzis	up to 59 kg	before Marianna Sastin, Hungary a. Irina Husjak, Ukraine
2009	1.	Fila Golden Grand Prix in Baku	up to 59 kg	before Marianna Sastin u. Elwira Mursalowa , Azerbaijan
2010	1.	Austrian Lady Open in Götzis	up to 59 kg	before Gudrun Annette Høie , Norway a. Fabienne Wittenwiler
2010	2.	Fila Golden Grand Prix in Baku	up to 59 kg	behind Marianna Sastin, in front of Hanna Wassylenko , Ukraine
2010	3.	World Cup in Moscow	up to 59 kg	after victories over Natalja Sinichin, Ukraine a. Alka Toman, India, a loss to Zhang Lan , China a. Wins over Alena Filipawa u. Kelsey Campbell
2011	1.	Henri Deglane Challenge in Nice	up to 63 kg	before Fatima Benfouzari, France and Julia Alborowa, Russia
2011	1.	FILA test tournament in London	up to 63 kg	in front of Xiluo Zhuoma, China, Monika Ewa Michalik , Poland and Aline Focken , Germany
2012	1.	Dan Kolow & Nikolai Petrow Memorial in Sofia	up to 63 kg	before Henna Johansson , Sweden, Maria Mamaschuk, Belarus and Monika Ewa Michalik
2012	7th	Golden Grand Prix in Klippan	up to 63 kg	Winner: Henna Johansson ahead of Monika Ewa Michalik
2012	5.	EM in Belgrade	up to 63 kg	after a loss to Julia Tkach, Ukraine, a loss to Audrey Prieto, France and a loss to Elif Jalai Yesilirmak, Turkey
2014	3.	Klippan Ladies Open	up to 60 kg	behind Julia Ratkewitsch, Azerbaijan and Michelle Fazzari, Canada
2014	1.	EM in Vantaa / Finland	up to 60 kg	after victories over Swetlana Lipatowa, Russia, Taybe Jusein, Bulgaria and Hafize Sahin, Turkey

Swedish championships

Johanna Mattsson was Swedish champion in the weight class up to 55 kg in 2005, 2006 and 2007 and in the weight class up to 59 kg in 2009.

Explanations

• all competitions in free style (note: women only wrestle in this style)
• WM = World Championship, EM = European Championship

literature

• Trade journal Der Ringer
• Anniversary band of the Swedish Wrestling Association "Svensk Brottning 100 år", 2009

Web links

• Profile of Johanna Mattsson at the Institute for Applied Training Science