Natalia Vitalievna Kuksina

Natalja Witaljewna Kuksina ( Russian: Наталья Витальевна Куксина ; born June 27, 1984 in Chita ) is a Russian wrestler . She won several medals at world and European championships.

Career

Natalja Kuksina has been wrestling since 2000. It belongs to the sports club Dinamo Kemerovo and was and is trained by Abdula Chasseidjanow and Vladimir Seklesow. As an adult, with a height of 1.65 meters, she usually wrestles in the weight class up to 67 kg. She studied sports and has been the mother of a son since 2009. Because of the birth of this son, she was not on the wrestling mat in 2009 and in the first half of 2010.

Natalja Kuksina did not belong to the elite of Russian wrestlers when she was a junior. It was only in 2004 that she managed to draw attention to herself at national championships. Her first international assignment was then in 2004 the Grand Prix of Germany in Dormagen . In the weight class up to 67 kg she only finished 5th. In 2005 she started at the Universities World Championship in Izmir , where she won a bronze medal in the same weight class behind Mami Shinkai from Japan and Hatun Muhcu from Turkey .

In 2007 she was the first Russian champion and therefore represented her country at the World Cup in Baku . There she won over Gunhild Fretland, Norway and Kateryna Burmistrowa , Ukraine , then lost to Martine Dugrenier from Canada and secured a World Cup bronze medal with a victory over Darja Karpenko from Kazakhstan . In 2008 she became Russian champion again. At the European Championships this year in Tampere she reached the weight class up to 67 kg with victories over Kristin Büttner , Germany a. Lise Legrand from France the final battle, in which she lost to Marjana Kwiatkowska from Ukraine. She became vice European champion. Since the weight class up to 67 kg is not part of the Olympic program, Natalja Kuksina could not start at the games in Beijing .

After her baby break, she took part in the Russian championship again in July 2010. She had to compete there in the weight class up to 72 kg because she was not able to completely work off the weight gain during her break. In this weight class she came in 3rd place behind Jekaterina Bukina and Alena Starodubzewa . At the Russia Cup in Chekhov in October 2010 she was able to start again in the weight class up to 67 kg and won there before her Russian competitors Darima Sanschejewa , Oksana Nagornyh and Maria Lyulkowa. At the Russian championship in 2011 she was back in this weight class and won her third Russian championship title there, ahead of Darima Sanschejewa and Julija Bartnowskaja. At the 2011 World Cup in Istanbul, however, she disappointed, because she lost her first fight there against Nadezhda Semenzova from Azerbaijan and then dropped out because Semenzova did not reach the final. Therefore it only came in 10th place.

Whether Natalja Kuksina, who earned all her successes in the weight class up to 67 kg, with a view to the Olympic Games in London in 2012 , at which the weight class up to 67 kg will not be Olympic again, but will switch to another Olympic weight class, it will show. In 2012, Natalja Kuksina stayed in the weight class up to 67 kg. So she had no way of qualifying for the Olympic Games. She was again Russian champion in this weight class, but did not start at the World or European Championships this year.

International success

year	space	competition	Weight class	Result
2004	5.	Grand Prix of Germany in Dormagen	up to 67 kg	behind Kateryna Burmistrowa , Ukraine , Stefanie Howorun, Canada , Annika Oertli and Yvonne Englich , both Germany
2005	3.	Ivan Yarigin Memorial in Krasnoyarsk	up to 63 kg	behind Aljona Kartaschowa u. Lyubov Wolossowa , both Russia
2005	3.	Universities World Cup in Izmir	up to 67 kg	behind Mami Shinkai , Japan and Hatun Muhcu, Turkey
2006	2.	Klippan Lady Open	up to 67 kg	behind Kristie Marano , USA , in front of Michala Krizkova-Spoutsova, Czech Republic
2006	2.	Golden Grand Prix in Baku	up to 67 kg	behind Hiroe Suzuki, Japan, in front of Masira Admiraal, Netherlands and Aurelia Gerlac, France
2007	1.	German Grand Prix in Dormagen	up to 67 kg	before Kristin Büttner , Germany and Martine Dugrenier , Canada
2007	3.	Warsaw Cup	up to 67 kg	behind Catherine Downing , USA a. Wolha Chilko , Belarus
2007	3.	World Cup in Baku	up to 67 kg	after victories over Gunhild Fretland, Norway and Kateryna Burmistrowa, a defeat against Martine Dugrenier and a win over Darja Karpenko , Kazakhstan
2008	2.	Ivan Yarigin Memorial in Krasnoyarsk	up to 67 kg	behind Jelena Schalygina, in front of Julija Bartnowskaja and Evgenia Atamanowa, both Russia
2008	1.	Klippan Lady Open	up to 67 kg	before Paulina Grabowska and Magdalena Pietrzyk, both from Poland and Stefanie Shaw, USA
2008	2.	EM in Tampere	up to 67 kg	after victories over Kristin Büttner u. Lise Legrand , France and a loss to Marjana Kwiatkowska , Ukraine
2008	2.	Universities World Cup in Thessaloniki	up to 67 kg	behind Elena Piroschkowa , USA, in front of Monika Szerencse, Hungary a . Megan Buydens , Canada
2008	1.	Russia Cup in Chekhov	up to 67 kg	before Anna Polownewa and Evgenia Atamanowa, both Russia
2010	1.	Russia Cup in Chekhov	up to 67 kg	before Darima Sanschejewa , Oksana Nagornych a. Maria Lyulkova, all Russia
2010	7th	Universities World Cup in Turin	up to 72 kg	behind Ali Sue Bernard, USA, in front of Hiroe Suzuki, Japan
2011	1.	Poland Open in Tarnowo Podgorne	up to 67 kg	before Julija Bartnowskaja, Russia and Lisa Geyer, Germany
2011	10.	World Cup in Istanbul	up to 67 kg	after losing to Nadezhda Semenzova, Azerbaijan
2012	3.	Golden Grand Prix in Krasnoyarsk	up to 67 kg	behind Sara Dosho, Japan and Julija Bartnowskaja
2012	1.	Poland Open in Tarnowe Podgorne	up to 67 kg	before Irina Bogdanowa, Russia and Irina Schawzewa, Belarus
2013	1.	Cup of the President of the Buryat Republic in Ulan-Ude	up to 63 kg	before Julija Pronzewitsch, Russia, Scharchim Tumentstetseg and Schoodyn Baatarjay, both Mongolia

Russian championships

year	space	Weight class	Result
2007	1.	up to 67 kg
2008	1.	up to 67 kg	before Julija Bartnowskaja and Evgenia Atamanowa
2010	3.	up to 72 kg	behind Jekaterina Bukina and Alena Starodubzewa
2011	1.	up to 67 kg	before Darima Sanschejewa u. Julia Bartnowskaya
2012	1.	up to 67 kg	before Darima Sanschejewa, Irina Bogdanowa and Natalja Fedosejewa

Explanations

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

swell

• Database of the Institute for Applied Training Sciences at the University of Leipzig
• Trade journal Der Ringer
• Website of the Russian Wrestling Association

Web links

• Profile of Natalja Witaljewna Kuksina at the Institute for Applied Training Science