Maryna Slutskaya

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Maryna Uladsimirauna Sluzkaja ( Belarusian Марына Уладзіміраўна Слуцкая ; born July 9, 1991 ) is a Belarusian judoka who was European heavyweight champion in 2017 and 2019.

Career

Maryna Sluzkaja won the silver medal at the U20 European Championships in 2008. In 2010 she won the Belarusian championships in the adult class, but also in the U20 and U23 age groups. She received the silver medal at the U20 European Championships in 2010, after which she finished fifth at the Junior World Championships and won bronze at the U23 European Championships. In 2011, she took fifth place in the open class at the Universiade in Shenzhen . As in the previous year, she won bronze in the heavyweight division at the U23 European Championships. In 2012 she won her first World Cup tournament in Tallinn, and in 2012 she finished fifth at the U23 European Championships. In July 2013 she started at the Universiade in Kazan in the heavyweight division and won a bronze medal. At the U23 European Championships in 2013, she finished fifth, as in the previous year.

In 2014 she reached fifth place at the European Championships in Montpellier after losing to the two Germans Jasmin Külbs and Franziska Konitz . In 2015, the European Championships were held in Baku as part of the 2015 European Games . Sluzkaja lost to Jasmin Külbs in the semifinals and to Ukrainian Switlana Jarjomka in the battle for bronze .

At the European Championships 2017 in Warsaw Sluzkaja defeated the Ukrainian Jelysaweta Kalanina in the semifinals and won in the final against the second Ukarine woman Switlana Jarjomka. A year later she was eliminated from the 2018 European Championships in Tel Aviv in her first fight against the French Romane Dicko . At the 2018 World Championships , she won her first fight against the Tunisian Nihel Cheikh Rouhou and was eliminated in the round of 16 against the British Sarah Adlington . In October 2018, Sluzkaja won the Grand Slam tournament in Abu Dhabi . The 2019 European Games took place in Minsk and, as in 2015, the European Judo Championships were also held at the European Games . In the semifinals Sluzkaja won against İrina Kindzerskaya , who started for Azerbaijan , in the final she won the title with a victory over the Bosnian Larisa Cerić .

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Footnotes

  1. Match balance at judoinside.com