Svetlana Vladimirovna Babushkina

Svetlana Vladimirovna Babushkina ( Russian Светлана Владимировна Бабушкина ; English transcription: Svetlana Vladimirovna Babushkina ; born February 15, 1992 in Brjansk ) is a Russian wrestler . She won a bronze medal in the weight class up to 67 kg body weight at the 2013 European Championships .

Career

Svetlana Babushkina comes from Tatarstan and started wrestling as a teenager in 2003. She belongs to the Lokomotive Bryansk sports club . Her first trainer was her father, Vladimir Babushkin. Nikolai Koslow and Ramil Islamow were added to this in 2012 and 2013 respectively. With a height of 1.70 meters, the strong athlete wrestles in the second heaviest weight class of women’s wrestling, which goes up to 67 kg body weight.

She first attracted attention at the Russian Junior Championship 2011, where she took 3rd place in the weight class up to 67 kg behind Maria Lyulkowa and Oksana Nagornich. In 2012 she then won this title in the same weight class in front of Svetlana Lipatowa and Julija Pronzewitsch. In 2012 her international wrestling career began. That year she became Junior European Champion in Zagreb ahead of Karina Stankowa from Ukraine. At the Junior World Championships 2012 in Pattaya she reached the final, in which she was defeated by Dorothy Yeats from Canada.

At a Russian women's championship, Swetlana Babuschkine has not yet been able to place in the medal ranks. Because of her good results at important international tournaments, she was used in March 2013 at the European Championships in Tbilisi. She lost there in the weight class up to 67 kg in her first fight against Alina Stadnyk-Machynja from Ukraine, but then secured a bronze medal in the consolation round with victories over Galina Levtschenko, Belarus and Darija Osocka, Poland.

International success

year	space	competition	Weight class	Results
2011	3.	Cup tournament in Chekhov	up to 67 kg	behind Natalja Kuksina and Anastasija Shchavlinski
2012	2.	Intern. Tournament in Kiev	up to 67 kg	behind Nadeschda Semenzowa , Azerbaijan, in front of Julija Bartnowskaja , Russia and Aline Focken , Germany
2012	1.	Junior European Championship in Zagreb	up to 67 kg	before Karina Stankowa, Ukraine, Darija Osocka, Poland and Dschanan Manolowa, Bulgaria
2012	2.	Junior World Championships in Pattaya	up to 67 kg	behind Dorothy Yeats , Canada, in front of Sara Dosho, Japan and Darija Osocka
2012	3.	"Moscow Lights"	up to 67 kg	behind Alina Stadnyk-Machynja, Ukraine and Natalja Palamarchuk, Azerbaijan
2012	1.	Cup tournament in Lobnya	up to 67 kg	before Julija Bartnowskaja, Anastasija Schtschawlinski and Julija Pronzewitsch, all Russia
2013	9.	"Ivan Yarigin" Golden Grand Prix in Krasnoyarsk	up to 67 kg	Winner: Otschirbatyn Nasanburmaa , Mongolia ahead of Yoshike Inoue, Japan and Julija Bartnowskaja
2013	1.	Klippan Lady Open	up to 67 kg	before Julia Salata, USA, Martina Kuenz , Austria and Aline Focken
2013	3.	EM in Tbilisi	up to 67 kg	after a loss to Alina Stadnyk-Machynja and victories over Galina Levtschenko, Belarus and Darija Osocka
2013	2.	German Grand Prix in Dormagen	up to 67 kg	after victories over Martina Kuenz, Dalma Caneva, Italy, Aline Focken and Kristina Odrina-Urbowa, Latvia and a defeat against Stacie Anaka, Canada

Russian championships

year	space	Age group	Weight class	Results
2011	3.	Juniors	up to 67 kg	behind Maria Lyulkowa and Oksana Nagornich
2012	1.	Juniors	up to 67 kg	before Swetlana Lipatow and Julija Pronzewitsch

Explanations

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

swell

• Trade journal Der Ringer
• Foeldeak Wrestling Database website
• Website "www.wrestling.ru"

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Short biography on obook.ru (Russian)