Maider Unda Gonzalez de Audikana

Maider Unda Gonzalez de Audikana

Maider Unda Gonzalez de Audikana (born July 2, 1977 in Vitoria-Gasteiz ) is a Spanish wrestler . She has won three medals at world and European championships so far.

Career

Maider Unda Gonzalez de Audikana is Baskin . She started sambo as a teenager in Otxandio at the age of 9 . She only switched to wrestling in 1998 at the age of 21. She became a member of the wrestling club Escuela Alavesa de Lucha Vitoria . Luis Crespa has been her trainer since 1998. The 1.77 meter tall athlete was thrown back several times in her athletic development due to serious injuries (in 2001, 2003, 2004 and 2011). Nevertheless, she stayed with wrestling and developed through an enormous amount of diligence in training that she was even able to become a medalist at world and European champions. Maider, who had trained as an electrician, now lives in Olaeta near Aramaiona and raises livestock, especially sheep. She specialized in the production of cheese.

Between 2000 and 2012, she won the Spanish women's championship title twelve times. Only in 2011 did she not become Spanish champion because she was unable to start at this championship that year due to an injury.

She started her international career at the World Cup in Sofia . She took 12th place in the weight class up to 75 kg. At the 2001 European Championships in Budapest , she landed her first victory in an international championship in the weight class up to 68 kg. She won over the Turkish Najla Salihoglu on points. In the same year she won a bronze medal in the same weight class at the Mediterranean Games in Tunis behind Lise Legrand , France and Yousia Magdy from Egypt .

In the following years Maider Unda Gonzalez de Audikana started regularly at the World and European Championships. The best placement that she initially achieved was a 5th place at the European Championships in 2002 in Seinäjoki / Finland. Was there u. a. also the German Nina Englich on points. She did not qualify for the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens. In 2007 she reached an excellent 5th place at the World Championships in Baku in the weight class up to 72 kg and only narrowly lost to the Russian Gousel Manjurowa in the battle for a bronze medal . With 5th place, however, she won the right to start at the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing .

In Beijing she was able to convince and won there over Oksana Waschtschuk from Ukraine and Ohenewa Akuffo from Canada . She lost to Stanka Slatewa from Bulgaria and Agnieszka Wieszczek-Kordus from Poland , but took a very good 5th place.

In 2009 Maider succeeded in winning the first medal at an international championship at the world championship in Herning / Denmark . She defeated Jelena Perepelkina from Russia, Jenny Fransson from Sweden and Marina Gastl from Austria . At the 2010 European Championships in Baku, she won a bronze medal at the EC with victories over Maria Louisa Vryoni from Greece , Darija Iwanowa from Azerbaijan and Marina Gastl. At the 2010 World Championships in Moscow , she just missed the medal ranks with a 5th place. She just lost the fight for one of the two bronze medals against multiple world champion Kyoko Hamaguchi from Japan.

Maider Unda Gonzalez de Audikana then won another medal at the 2012 European Championships in Belgrade . She came there with victories over Cynthia Vanessa Vescan from France , Wassilissa Marsaljuk from Belarus and Natalja Palamarchuk from Azerbaijan in a defeat against Maja Gunvor Erlandsen from Norway on the 3rd place. For participation in the 2012 Olympic Games in London, she was only able to qualify in the third tournament in Helsinki, which she won ahead of Cynthia Vanessa Vescan from France. In London, however, she was in excellent shape and came in third place with victories over Ana Talia Betancourt, Colombia and Otschirbatyn Burmaa , Mongolia, a defeat against Stanka Slatewa Christowa and a victory over Wassilissa Marsaljuk, Belarus, and thus won an Olympic bronze medal.

International success

year	space	competition	Weight class	Results
2000	12.	World Cup in Sofia	up to 75 kg	Winner: Christine Nordhagen , Canada ahead of Edita Witkowska , Poland and Kyoko Hamaguchi , Japan
2001	8th.	EM in Budapest	up to 68 kg	after a win over Nejla Salihoglu, Turkey and a loss against Nina Nilsen, Norway
2001	6th	Austrian Lady Open in Götzis	up to 68 kg	Winner: Lise Legrand , France ahead of Monika Kowalska, Poland
2001	3.	Mediterranean Games in Tunis	up to 68 kg	behind Lise Legrand and Yousia Magdy, Egypt
2001	8th.	World Cup in Sofia	up to 68 kg	after a loss to Christine Nordhagen and a win over Xiomara Guevara, Venezuela
2002	4th	Klippan Lady Open	up to 72 kg	behind Nina Englich , Germany , Monika Kowalska and Heidi Hannele Martti, Finland
2002	5.	EM in Seinäjoki / Finland	up to 72 kg	after a loss to Nina Englich, a victory over Inga Cecillia Alenius, Sweden and losses to Katarzyna Juszczak, Poland and Swetlana Sajenko , Ukraine
2002	16.	World Cup in Chalkida / Greece	up to 72 kg	after losing to Swetlana Martinenko , Russia and Kyoko Hamaguchi
2004	2.	FILA test tournament in Athens	up to 72 kg	after victories over Marina Gastl , Austria , Fanny Gai, France and Swetlana Martinenko and a defeat against Kyoko Hamaguchi
2004	19th	Olympic qualification tournament in Tunis	up to 72 kg	Winner: Edita Witkowska ahead of Christine Nordhagen
2004	7th	Olympic qualification tournament in Madrid	up to 72 kg	Winner: Marina Gastl ahead of Katarzyna Juszczak
2005	8th.	EM in Varna	up to 72 kg	after a loss to Agnieszka Wieszczek-Kordus
2005	15th	World Cup in Budapest	up to 72 kg	after a loss to Svetlana Sajenko
2006	2.	Grand Prix of Germany in Dormagen	up to 72 kg	behind Anita Schätzle , Germany, in front of Wassilissa Marsaljuk , Belarus and Anna Nikitinskaja, Russia
2006	1.	Austrian Lady Open in Götzis	up to 72 kg	in front of Marina Gastl and Wassilissa Marsaljuk
2006	13.	World Cup in Guangzhou	up to 72 kg	after a loss to Svetlana Sajenko
2007	16.	EM in Sofia	up to 72 kg	after losing to Güzäl Mannürowa , Russia
2007	3.	Grand Prix of Germany in Dormagen	up to 72 kg	behind Darija Nasaraowa, Russia, in front of Yan Hong, China and Anita Schätzle
2007	5.	World Cup in Baku	up to 72 kg	after victories over Jana Panowa, Kyrgyzstan and Anna Maria Paic, Romania , a defeat against Kristie Marano , USA , a victory over Agnieszka Wieszczek-Kordus and a defeat against Güzäl Mänürowa
2008	2.	Klippan Lady Open	up to 72 kg	behind Stanka Slatewa, in front of Anna Wawrzycka and Agnieszka Wieszczek-Kordus, both Poles
2008	12.	EM in Tampere	up to 72 kg	after a loss to Jenny Fransson
2008	1.	Austrian Lady Open in Götzis	up to 72 kg	in front of Jaresmit Weffer, Venezuela and Marina Gastl
2008	5.	OS in Beijing	up to 72 kg	after a victory over Oksana Waschtschuk, Ukraine, a defeat against Stanka Slatewa, a victory over Ohenewa Akuffo , Canada and a defeat against Agnieszka Wieszczek-Kordus
2009	11.	EM in Vilnius	up to 72 kg	after a loss to Svetlana Sajenko
2009	3.	World Cup in Herning / Denmark	up to 72 kg	after a victory over Jelena Perepelkina , Russia, a defeat against Otschirbatyn Burmaa , Mongolia and victories over Jenny Fransson and Marina Gastl
2010	4th	"Dave Schultz" Memorial Open in Colorado Springs	up to 72 kg	behind Li Dan, China, Iris Smith , USA and Ya Hong, China
2010	9.	Klippan Lady Open	up to 72 kg	Winner: Stephany Lee , USA ahead of Emma Weberg, Sweden
2010	3.	EM in Baku	up to 72 kg	after a victory over Maria Louisa Vryoni, Greece , a defeat against Jelena Bukina , Russia and victories over Darija Iwanowa, Azerbaijan and Marina Gastl
2010	3.	Austrian Lady Open in Götzis	up to 72 kg	behind Jenny Fransson and Swetlana Sajenko
2010	5.	World Cup in Moscow	up to 72 kg	after a victory over D. Suarez Rivera, Puerto Rico , a defeat against Ohunewa Akuffo, victories over Sumrud Gurbanhadschijewa, Azerbaijan and Li Dan and a defeat against Kyoko Hamaguchi
2011	25th	World Cup in Istanbul	up to 72 kg	after losing to Cynthia Vanessa Vescan, France
2012	3.	"Dan Kolow & Nikola Petrow" Memorial in Sofia	up to 72 kg	behind Stanka Slatewa and Jenny Fransson
2012	2.	Golden Grand Prix in Klippan	up to 72 kg	behind Natalja Vorobjowa , Russia, in front of Sheherazade Bentorki, France and Jenny Fransson
2012	3.	EM in Belgrade	up to 72 kg	after victories over Cynthia Vanessa Vescan and Wassilissa Marsaljuk, a defeat against Maja Gunvor Erlandsen , Norway and a victory over Natalja Palamarchuk , Azerbaijan
2012	3.	Olympic qualification tournament in Sofia	up to 72 kg	behind Jenny Fransson and Katerina Burmistrowa
2012	9.	Olympic qualification tournament in Taiyuan / China	up to 72 kg	Winner: Otschirbatyn Burmaa ahead of Swetlana Sajenko, Moldova
2012	1.	Olympic qualification tournament in Helsinki	up to 72 kg	before Cynthia Vanessa Vescan and Mae Epp, Estonia
2012	3.	Austrian Lady Open in Götzis	up to 72 kg	behind Leah Callahan, Canada and Jenny Fransson
2012	3.	Spanish Grand Prix in Madrid	up to 72 kg	behind Stanka Slatewa Christowa and Laure Annabel Ali , Cameroon
2012	bronze	OS in London	up to 72 kg	after victories over Ana Talia Betancourt, Colombia and Otschirbatyn Burmaa, a defeat against Stanka Slatewa Christowa and a victory over Wassilissa Marsaljuk
2013	3.	Golden Grand Prix in Klippan	up to 72 kg	behind Natalja Vorobjowa and Marina Gastl

Spanish championships

Maider Unda Gonzalez de Audikana won the title of Spanish Champion twelve times between 2000 and 2010 and in 2012. In 2011 she was absent due to an injury.

Explanations

• all free style competitions
• = S = Olympic Games, WM = World Championships, EM = European Championships

swell

• Trade journal Der Ringer
• Foeldeak Wrestling Database website

Web links

• Portrait of Maider Unda Gonzalez de Audikana (English)