Oleksandra Kohut

Oleksandra Senonijiwna Kohut ( Ukrainian Олександра Зеноніївна Когут ; born December 9, 1987 in Lviv , Ukrainian SSR , USSR ) is a Ukrainian wrestler . In 2010 she became world champion in the weight class up to 51 kg.

Career

Oleksandra Kohut started wrestling as a teenager. She is a sports student and as such a member of the Burewestnik Lviv sports club . She is or was mainly trained by Andrei Pistun and Mariana Bawdik. As an adult, with a height of 1.58 meters, she usually wrestles in the weight class up to 51 kg, but also trains in the weight class up to 48 kg body weight for certain competitions.

She started her first international championship in 2004. She was in Sofia Junior Vice European Championship in the weight class up to 48 kg. From this point on, Oleksandra Kohut has started seventeen times (a total of eighteen times) in international championships in the junior and senior division. She won a total of eleven medals.

Her greatest success that she achieved was winning the world title in Moscow in 2010, where she was in the weight class up to 51 kg after victories over Maria Ivanova, Belarus, Samira Rachmanova , Russia, Tatjana Amanschol-Bakatschuk , Kazakhstan and Yu Horiuchi , Japan, which won the world title. In 2005 Oleksandra Kohut became Junior World Champion in Vilnius and Junior European Champion in Szombathely in 2006.

In 2008 and 2012, she tried to qualify for the Olympic Games in Beijing and London, respectively. She had to train from the weight class up to 51 kg to the weight class up to 48 kg because the weight class up to 51 kg is not Olympic. In 2008 she had the reigning world champion as a rival in her own country in Irina Melnik-Merleni . She couldn't get past this and the 2008 Olympic Games therefore took place without her. In 2012, their prospects for national competition were much better. In 2012 she was also runner-up in the weight class up to 51 kg in Belgrade. In two subsequent qualifying tournaments in the weight class up to 48 kg in Sofia and Taiyuan / China, however, she did not manage to fight for the right to start in London. In Sofia it came in only 10th and in Taiyuan on 5th place. These placements were nowhere near enough to qualify for entry into London. The Ukrainian Wrestling Federation therefore sent Irina Melnik-Merleni to the last qualifying tournament in Helsinki, who had returned to the wrestling mat after a three-year break from competition. This could then promptly qualify for the Olympic Games in London in Helsinki. There, however, she no longer won a medal.

After the Olympic Games in London in 2012, Oleksandra Kohut started at the World Championships in Strathcoona Caunty / Canada, but only came 11th after a defeat against Tatjana Amanschol-Bakatschuk.

International success

year	space	competition	Weight class	Results
2004	2.	Junior European Championship in Sofia	up to 48 kg	behind Lorissa Oorschak , Russia, in front of Cristina Croitariu, Romania and Julita Omilusik, Poland
2005	5.	World Cup in Clermont-Ferrand	up to 48 kg	behind Makiko Sakamoto , Japan, Lilija Kaskarakowa , Russia, Mayelis Caripa Carpelis , Venezuela and Anne Catherine Deluntsch , France
2005	1.	Junior World Championships in Vilnius	up to 51 kg	before Nanae Suzuki, Japan, Jildiz Eschimowa, Kyrgyzstan and Olga Gilowa, Russia
2005	3.	Universities World Cup in Izmir	up to 48 kg	behind Carol Huynh , Canada and Yumi Funatsu, Japan
2005	5.	World Cup in Budapest	up to 51 kg	after defeating Valentina Minguzzi, Italy, defeating Vanessa Boubryemm , France, defeating Nadine Tokar, Switzerland and defeating Enchjargal Tsogtbazaar , Mongolia
2006	3.	Klippan Lady Open	up to 51 kg	behind Jennifer Wong, USA and Vanessa Boubryemm
2006	3.	EM in Moscow	up to 51 kg	after victories over Katerina Pompouridou , Greece and Alena Iwanowitsch Kareicha, Belarus, a defeat against Vanesse Boubryemm and a victory over Natalia Budu, Romania
2006	4th	World Cup in Nagoya	up to 51 kg	behind Ren Xuecheng , China, Hitomi Obara Sakamoto, Japan and Patricia Miranda , USA
2006	3.	Golden Grand Prix in Baku	up to 51 kg	behind Juliette Willocq , France and Yuri Kai, Japan
2006	1.	Junior European Championship in Szombathely	up to 51 kg	before Jekaterina Sergejewna Krasnowa , Russia, Tatjana Grigorjewa , Belarus and Elain Demirtas, Turkey
2006	5.	World Cup in Guangzhou	up to 51 kg	after victories over Juliette Willocq and Liang Dong-Hua, China and defeats to Hitomi Obara Sakamoto and Patricia Miranda
2007	5.	EM in Sofia	up to 48 kg	after victories against Julia Starowoitowa, Belarus and Sarianne Savola, Finland and defeats against Lorissa Oorschak and Sofia Mattsson , Sweden
2007	3.	Junior World Championships in Belgrade	up to 51 kg	behind Valerija Tschepsarakowa , Russia and Dominika Osocka, Poland
2007	3.	Junior World Championships in Beijing	up to 51 kg	after a loss to Babita Kumari , India and victories over Genevieve Haley, Canada, Nanna Pedersen, Denmark and Emese Barka, Hungary
2007	8th.	World Cup in Baku	up to 51 kg	after defeating Jennifer Wong and losing to Alexandra Engelhardt , Germany
2008	3.	EM in Tampere	up to 48 kg	after a victory over Marina Shishkina, Russia, a defeat against Maria Stadnik , Azerbaijan and victories over Cristina Croitoriu and Fani Psatha, Greece
2008	1.	Golden Grand Prix in Baku	up to 51 kg	before Nadja Gradschuk, Azerbaijan and Anna Trusowa, Russia
2008	8th.	World Cup in Tokyo	up to 51 kg	after beating Maribel Jamboro, Philippines and losing to Su Gubei, China
2009	5.	World Cup in Taiyuan / China	up to 51 kg	behind Dai Shiju, China, Helen Maroulis , USA, Yu Horiuchi , Japan and Jessica MacDonald , Canada
2009	3.	World Cup in Herning / Denmark	up to 51 kg	after a loss against Han Kum-Ok , North Korea and victories over Roksana Zasina , Poland and Natalia Budu, Romania
2010	2.	"Ivan Yarigin" Golden Grand Prix in Krasnoyarsk	up to 51 kg	behind Kai Yuri, Japan, in front of Han Kum-Ok and Tatjana Amanschol-Bakatschuk , Kazakhstan
2010	3.	EM in Baku	up to 51 kg	after a victory over Anna Trusowa, a defeat against Estera Dobre , Romania and victories over Nadine Tokar, Switzerland and Tiina Ylinen, Finland
2010	3.	Golden Grand Prix in Baku	up to 51 kg	behind Sofia Mattsson and Samira Rachmanowa , Russia
2010	1.	World Cup in Moscow	up to 51 kg	after victories over Maria Iwanowa, Belarus, Samira Rachmanowa, Tatjana Amarschol-Bakatschuk and Yu Horiuchi
2011	2.	Golden Grand Prix in Baku	up to 48 kg	behind Maria Stadnik, in front of Jildiz Eschimowa and Jana Stadnik , Great Britain
2011	3.	Intern. Tournament in Kiev	up to 48 kg	behind Carol Huynh and Natalja Pulkowskaja, Ukraine
2011	11.	World Cup in Istanbul	up to 48 kg	after victories over Sara Sanchez Parra, Spain and Maroi Mezen, Tunisia and a defeat against Clarissa Chun , USA
2012	3.	Intern. Tournament in Kiev	up to 51 kg	behind Patimat Bagomedowa , Azerbaijan and Julija Blachinja, Ukraine
2012	2.	EM in Belgrade	up to 51 kg	after victories over Alexandra Engelhardt, Jessika Blaszka, Netherlands and Patimat Bagomedowa and a defeat against Iwona Matkowska , Poland
2012	10.	Olympic qualification tournament in Sofia	up to 48 kg	after losing to Nadezhda Fedorova, Russia
2012	5.	Olympic qualification tournament in Taiyuan / China	up to 48 kg	behind Otgontretseg Davaasuch , Mongolia, Vanessa Kaladschinskaja , Belarus, Rebecca Ndola Muambo, Cameroon and Estera Dobre
2012	6th	World Cup in Tokyo	up to 48 kg	Winner: Hitomi Obara Sakamoto ahead of Li Hui , China
2012	11.	World Cup in Strathcoona County / Canada	up to 48 kg	after a loss to Tajana Amanschol-Bakachuk

Explanations

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

swell

• Trade journal Der Ringer
• Website §Foeldeak Wrestling Database "

Web links

• Fight of Oleksandra Kohut (blue) in the final of the 2010 World Cup against Yu Horiuchi