Natalja Pulkowska

Natalija Wassyliwna Pulkowska ( Ukrainian Наталія Василівна Пульковська ; born June 4, 1988 ) is a Ukrainian wrestler . In 2014 she was runner-up in the European championship in the weight category up to 48 kg.

Career

Natalja Pulkowska started wrestling as a teenager in 2001. She belongs to the Kolos Kolomija sports club and has been coached by Alexander Jeschow since the beginning of her career. She is a student. The 1.60 meter tall athlete has almost always started in the lightest weight class in women's wrestling, the weight class up to 48 kg body weight. She made her first start at an international championship at the Junior European Championship (Cadets) in Albena / Bulgaria, where she finished 5th in the weight class up to 46 kg. In the further course of her career as a junior wrestler, she was very successful. In 2006 she was runner-up in the weight class up to 48 kg in Guatemala City behind the Swede Sofia Mattsson. In 2007 she was European Junior Champion in the same weight class in Belgrade.

In 2006 she was used by the Ukrainian Wrestling Association for the first time in the senior women at an international championship. That was at the world championships in Guangzhou / China. In the weight category up to 48 kg she won over Guadelupe Perez from Mexico and Shumel from India, but lost in her third fight against Francine de Paola-Martinez from Italy. Since this did not reach the final, she was eliminated and took 7th place.

Her further career with the senior women was marked by the fact that Ukraine had three internationally very successful wrestlers in their weight class with Irina Melnik-Merleni , Oleksandra Kohut and Maria Liwatsch , against whom Natalja Pulkowska could not prevail. It was therefore not used in any international championships until the end of 2013, apart from the 2010 World University Championships in Turin. In Turin she won a bronze medal in the weight class up to 48 kg behind Minori Akeo from Japan and Alina Morewa from Russia.

In April 2014 it was used at the European Championships in Vantaa / Finland. There she convinced in the weight class up to 48 kg and fought her way into the final with victories over Emilia Budeanu, Moldova, Anna Lukasiak, Poland and Frederike Petersson , Sweden, in which she played against Maria Stadnik , who comes from a Ukrainian wrestling family, but for Azerbaijan goes to the start, lost. She became vice European champion.

International success

year	space	competition	Weight class	Results
2004	5.	Junior European Championship (Cadets) in Albena / Bulgaria	up to 46 kg	Winner: Maria Wilmowa , Russia, ahead of Elcin Demirtas, Turkey
2005	10.	Junior World Cup in Wrocław	up to 48 kg	Winner: Lorissa Oorschak , Russia ahead of Marta Podedworna, Poland
2006	2.	Junior World Championships in Guatemala City	up to 48 kg	behind Sofia Mattsson, Sweden, ahead of Fuyuko Mimura, Japan and Jildis Eschimowa, Azerbaijan
2006	7th	World Cup in Guangzhou / China	up to 48 kg	after victories over Guadelupe Perez, Mexico and Shumel, India and a loss to Francine de Paola-Martinez, Spain
2007	1.	Junior European Championship in Belgrade	up to 48 kg	before Georgiana-Michaela Radoi, Romania, Angelika Sylwia Glab, Poland and Elsa Tasetdinowa, Russia
2007	10.	Junior World Championships in Beijing	up to 48 kg	Winner: Sofia Mattsson, ahead of Fuyuko Mimura and Alyssa Lampe , USA
2008	7th	Junior World Championships in Istanbul	up to 51 kg	Winner: Yu Horiuchi , Japan, ahead of Jekaterina Sergejewna Krasnowa , Russia and Helen Maroulis , USA
2010	3.	World Cup in Nanjing	up to 48 kg	behind Enchjargal Tsogtbasar, Mongolia and Zhao Shasha , China
2010	3.	Universities World Cup in Turin	up to 48 kg	behind Minori Akeo, Japan and Alina Morewa, Russia
2011	2.	Intern. Tournament in Kiev	up to 48 kg	behind Carol Huynh , Canada, in front of Jana Stadnik , Great Britain and Oleksandra Kohut, Ukraine
2012	2.	Golden Grand Prix in Baku	up to 48 kg	behind Anna Iwamura, Japan, in front of Elena Wostrikowa, Russia and Schafag Muradsade, Azerbaijan
2013	7th	Intern. Tournament in Kiev	up to 48 kg	Winner: Alyssa Lampe in front of Elena Wostrikowa and Victoria Anthony, USA
2014	3.	"Alexander Medved" Prize in Minsk	up to 48 kg	behind Tatjana Aamarschol-Bakatschuk, Kazakhstan and Alina Morewa
2014	2.	EM in Vantaa / Finland	up to 48 kg	after victories over Emilia Budeanu, Moldova, Anna Lukasiak, Poland and Frederike Petersson, Sweden and a defeat against Maria Stadnik, Azerbaijan

Explanations

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

literature

• Trade journal Der Ringer

Web links

• Profile of Natalja Pulkowska at the Institute for Applied Training Science
• Natalja Pulkowska (blue) in the fight against Anna Lukasiak at the 2014 European Championships