Natalia Karamchakova

Natalja Karamtschakowa (born May 7, 1975 ) is a former Russian wrestler . In 2003 she became European Champion and Vice World Champion.

Career

Natalja Karamtschakowa started wrestling in the early 1990s. She comes from a wrestling family from the Asian part of Russia. Her first trainer was her father Andrei Karamtschakow. The clubs she started for were Sduchor Krasnoyarsk and CSKA Krasnoyarsk. In addition to her father, she was also trained by Valeri Petrovich Alexejew and Viktor Kirilovich.

As early as 1993, when women's wrestling was still in its early years, it started for the first time in an international championship, namely the Junior World Championship in Götzis / Austria. She finished there in the weight class up to 52 kg behind the Japanese Yumi Ishida in 2nd place.

After that she was only at an international championship again in 1999. She came in 4th place at the European Championships in Götzis in the weight class up to 56 kg. She defeated u. a. the experienced Norwegian Gudrun Annette Høie and lost to Sara Eriksson from Sweden and Tatjana Lasarewa from Ukraine. At the World Championships in 1999 in Boden / Sweden and in 2001 in Sofia, Natalja Karamtschakowa took 5th place in the weight class up to 51 kg.

2003 turned out to be the most successful year of her career. In May of this year she became European champion in a superior style in Riga with victories over Anne Catherine Deluntsch , France, Nadir Urun Percin, Turkey, Maria del Mar Peralta, Spain, Alexandra Engelhardt , Germany and Ida Hellström , Sweden. She didn’t give up a round in these 5 fights and achieved a points ratio of 47: 0! to their favor. At the 2003 World Cup in New York, she defeated Eveline Diatta, Senegal, Nadine Tokar, Switzerland, Wen Juling, China and Jennifer Wong, USA, before losing to the exceptional athlete Chiharu Icho from Japan in the final . She became vice world champion.

In 2004 Natalja Karamtschakowa won the bronze medal at the European Championships in Haaparanda in the weight class up to 55 kg. There she defeated Sylwie Bilenska, Poland and Julieta Kliford Okot, Bulgaria, then lost to Tatjana Lasarenko and secured the bronze medal with a victory over Diana Dyachenko from Latvia. In 2004, at the Olympic Games in Athens, wrestling competitions for women took place for the first time, but only in four weight classes. The weight class up to 55 kg body weight was included. Natalja Karamtschakowa, however, failed in the Russian Olympic elimination against Olga Smirnova and could therefore not start in Athens.

From 2005 Natalja Golz dominated the weight class up to 55 kg in Russia for a few years. Natalja Karamtschakowa was therefore no longer used at international championships and ended her wrestling career in 2007.

International success

year	space	competition	Weight class	Results
1993	2.	Junior World Championships in Götzis / Austria	up to 52 kg	behind Yumi Ishida, Japan, in front of Oksana Jakunitschewa, Ukraine
1999	4th	EM in Götzis / Austria	up to 56 kg	after victories over Minerva Montero Perez, Spain, Gudrun Annette Høie, Norway and Metanet Suleymanowa, Azerbaijan and defeats against Sara Eriksson, Sweden and Tatjana Lasarewa, Ukraine
1999	5.	World Cup in Boden, Hildursborg, Sweden	up to 51 kg	after victories over Margarita Starikowa, Latvia and Inessa Rebar, Ukraine and a loss to Stephanie Murata , USA
2001	6th	World Cup in Levallois	up to 51 kg	Winner: Hitomi Obara Sakamoto, Japan ahead of Gao Yanzhi, China
2001	5.	World Cup in Sofia	up to 51 kg	after victories over Alfia Sainulina, Kyrgyzstan and Jessica Bechtel , Germany and a loss to Gao Yanzhi
2002	3.	World Cup in Cairo	up to 55 kg	behind Seiko Yamamoto , Japan and Tatjana Lasarewa
2003	1.	EM in Riga	up to 51 kg	after victories over Anne Catherine Deluntsch, France, Nadir Urun Percin, Turkey, Maria del Mar Peralta, Spain, Alexandra Engelhardt, Germany and Ida Hellström, Sweden
2003	2.	World Cup in New York	up to 51 kg	after victories over Eveline Diatta, Senegal, Nadine Tokar, Switzerland, Wan Juling, China and Jennifer Wong, USA and a defeat against Chiharu Icho, Japan
2004	3.	EM in Haaparanda	up to 55 kg	after victories over Sylwie Bilenska, Poland and Julieta Kliford Okot, Bulgaria, a defeat against Tatjana Lasarewa and a victory over Dianan Dyachenko, Latvia
2004	2.	Klippan Lady Open	up to 55 kg	behind Natalja Golz, Russia, in front of Sabrina Lotz, Germany
2004	3.	World Cup in Tokyo	up to 55 kg	behind Saori Yoshida , Japan and Tela O'Donnell, USA
2006	5.	World Cup in Nagoya	up to 55 kg	Winner: Saori Yoshida ahead of Su Lihui , China
2007	2.	"Dave Schultz" Memorial in Colorado Springs	up to 55 kg	behind Marcie van Dusen , USA, in front of Jackeline Rentería Castillo, Colombia
2007	5.	World Cup in Krasnoyarsk	up to 55 kg	Winner: Li Xu, China ahead of Maria Ivanovna, Belarus

Explanations

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

swell

• Trade journal Der Ringer
• Foeldeak Wrestling Database website