Tetiana Lazareva

Tetiana Viktorivna Lasarewa ( Ukrainian Тетяна Вікторівна Лазарева ; English transcription: Tetyana Viktorovna Lazareva ; born July 4, 1981 in Dzerzhinsk , Nizhny Novgorod Oblast , Soviet Union ) is a Ukrainian wrestler . She was European Champion in 2001 and 2002 and Vice World Champion in 2000 and 2008, each in the weight class up to 55 kg body weight.

Career

Tetiana Lazareva started wrestling as a teenager. She belongs to the Dinamo Donetsk sports club and was or is trained by Igor Gomanilow and Grigori Schepeljew, her husband. In addition to wrestling, she learned to be a physiotherapist. During her career, after 2004 and 2008, she took a longer break because of a motherhood, but then came back successfully to the wrestling mat.

Tetjana Lazarewa's international career began in 1997 when she took part in the European and Women's World Championships at the age of 16. She took 6th place at the European Championships in Warsaw in the weight class up to 56 kg and 8th place in the same weight class at the World Championships in Clermont-Ferrand . In the same year she won her first medal at an international championship. In Hradec Králové / Czech Republic she came third at the Junior European Championships in the weight class up to 54 kg behind Anne Catherine Deluntsch , France and Yvonne Englich-Hees , Germany, who was still called Yvonne Hees at the time.

From 1997 to 2013 Tetjana Lasarewa has so far participated in 28 international championships (Olympic Games, World and European Championships).

In the junior division, she was European junior champion in 1999 and 2000 and vice world champion in 1999. In 2004 she became the university world champion in the weight class up to 55 kg in Lodz.

It first competed at the Olympic Games in 2004 in Athens. She took 8th place in the weight class up to 55 kg. In 2008, Tetiana Lazareva missed participation in the Beijing Olympic Games because she failed in the Ukrainian Olympic qualification against Natalja Sinischin . In 2012 she was back at the Olympic Games in London. In the battle for an Olympic bronze medal, she was defeated by Jackeline Rentería Castillo from Cuba and finished in 5th place.

In 2000, Tetjana Lasarewa was runner-up in the weight class up to 56 kg in Sofia, behind Seiko Yamamoto from Japan and ahead of Jennifer Ryz from Canada. She achieved the same success in 2008 at the World Championships in Tokyo . In the final she was defeated by Saori Yoshida from Japan. She won the bronze medals in 2001 in Sofia and in 2011 in Istanbul.

In 2001 Tetjana Lasarewa became European champion in the weight class up to 56 kg in Budapest. In 2002 she repeated this success in Seinäjoki / Finland. Tetjana Lasarewa became vice-European champion in 2004 in Haparanda. She won an EM bronze medal in 1999 in Götzis / Austria and in 2008 in Tampere / Finland.

International success

year	space	competition	Weight class	Results
1997	6th	EM in Warsaw	up to 56 kg	Winner: Anna Gomis, France ahead of Lene Aanes , Norway
1997	8th.	World Cup in Clermont-Ferrand	up to 56 kg	after defeating Salma Ferchichi, Tunisia, and losing to Inge Barlie , Norway and Olga Marina Lugo Guardia, Venezuela
1997	3.	Junior European Championship in Hradec Králové / Czech Republic	up to 54 kg	behind Anne Cathrine Deluntsch, France and Yvonne Englich-Hees, Germany
1998	11.	EM in Bratislava	up to 56 kg	after defeats against Sabrina Helbing, Germany and Ewelina Tzwatkowa, Bulgaria
1998	3.	Junior European Championship in Patras	up to 54 kg	behind Olga Smirnowa, Russia and Anne Cathrine Deluntsch
1998	6th	World Cup in Poznań	up to 56 kg	after victories over Cao Haying, China and Diletta Giampiccolo, Italy and defeats to Gudrun Annette Høie and Sara Eriksson , Sweden
1999	3.	EM in Götzis	up to 56 kg	after victories over Christina Örtli, Germany and Alexandra Hinterbauer, Austria, a defeat against Anna Gomis and a victory over Natalja Karamtschakowa, Russia
1999	1.	Junior European Championship in Budapest	up to 58 kg	in front of Lyubow Michailowna Wolossowa, Russia and Ewa Iwanska, Poland
1999	2.	Junior World Championships in Bucharest	up to 58 kg	behind Rena Iwama, Japan, in front of Lyubow Michailowna Wolossowa and Sabrina Helbing
1999	4th	World Cup in Boden-Hildursborg	up to 56 kg	after a victory over Angela Lattanzio, Italy, a defeat against Natalja Iwaschko, Russia, a victory over Nelisa Romero, Venezuela and defeats against Mariko Shimizu, Japan and Gudrun Annette Hoeie
2000	7th	EM in Budapest	up to 56 kg	after a win over Elzbieta Stryczek, Poland, a defeat against Kostantina Katerina Tsibanakou, Greece and a win over Ewelina Tzwatkowa
2000	1.	Junior World Championships in Sofia	up to 58 kg	before Malgorzata Kociach, Poland and Sabrina Helbing
2000	2.	World Cup in Sofia	up to 56 kg	behind Seiko Nagashima Yamamoto, Japan, ahead of Jennifer Ryz, Canada and Salma Ferchichi
2001	1.	EM in Budapest	up to 56 kg	after a victory over Olga Smirnowa, a loss to Diletta Giampiccolo and victories over Sandrine Seve, France and Ida-Theres Nerell, Sweden
2001	5.	Junior World Championships in Martigny / Switzerland	up to 54 kg	behind Vanessa Boubryemm , France, Kostantina Katerina Tsibanakou, Wichtorija Satscheinowa, Russia and Melanie Bechtel, Germany
2001	3.	World Cup in Sofia	up to 56 kg	after victories over Gudrun Annette Hoeie, Minverva Montero Perez, Spain and Zeynep Yildirim, Turkey, a defeat against Lyubow Michailowna Wolossowa and a victory over Lee Na-lae, South Korea
2002	1.	EM in Sainäjoki / Finland	up to 55 kg	after victories over Anna Gomis, Kitti Godo, Hungary, Natalja Smirnowa and Ida-Theres Nerell
2002	2.	World Cup in Cairo	up to 55 kg	behind Seiko Nagashima Yamamoto, Japan, in front of Natalja Karamtschakowa, Russia and Jin Yue, China
2002	11.	World Cup in Chalkida	up to 55 kg	after losing to Saori Yoshida, Japan and defeating Minerva Montero Perez
2003	12.	EM in Riga	up to 55 kg	after a loss to Gudrun Annette Hoeie and a win over Diletta Giampiccolo
2003	10.	World Cup in New York	up to 55 kg	after a defeat by Mabel Fonseca Ramirez and victories over Isabella Sambou, Senegal and Rose Sagintaijewa, Kazakhstan
2004	3.	Olympic qualification tournament in Tunis	up to 55 kg	behind Lee Na-lae and Diletta Giampiccolo
2004	2.	EM in Haparanda	up to 55 kg	after victories over Andrea Friedrichowa, Czech Republic, Sofia Poumpouridou, Greece and Natalja Karamtschakowa and a defeat against Ida-Theres Nerell
2004	1.	Universities World Cup in Lodz	up to 55 kg	before Jessica Pedersen, Canada and Yu Sekine, Japan
2004	8th.	OS in Athens	up to 55 kg	after a win over Ida-Theres Nerell and a loss to Mabel Fonseca Ramirez
2007	5.	World Cup in Baku	up to 55 kg	after victories over Emese Szabo , Hungary, Su Ting-Tsu, Taiwan and Marcie van Dusen , USA and defeats to Ida-Theres Nerell and Natalja Golz , Russia
2008	3.	EM in Tampere	up to 55 kg	after victory over Ana Pereira, Portugal, defeat against Natalja Golz and victories over Gudrun Annette Hoeie and Johanna Mattsson , Sweden
2008	2.	World Cup in Tokyo	up to 55 kg	after victories over Nursat Shailobajewa, Kyrgyzstan, Natalja Smirnowa, Ana Maria Paval and Tatjana Padilla, USA and a defeat against Saori Yoshida
2011	5.	Golden Grand Prix in Baku	up to 55 kg	Winner: Ida-Theres Nerell in front of Kanako Murata, Japan
2011	1.	Intern. Tournament in Kiev	up to 55 kg	before Natalja Sinischin and Marwa Amri, Tunisia
2011	3.	World Cup in Istanbul	up to 55 kg	after victories over Salma Sidakowa, Belarus, Vania Gomes Guerreiro, Portugal and Katarzyna Krawczyk, Poland, a defeat against Tonya Verbeek and a victory over Maria Gusowa, Russia
2012	3.	Poland Open	up to 55 kg	behind Maria Gurowa and Natalja Smirnowa
2012	5.	OS in London	up to 55 kg	after defeating Rabab Eid Sayed Awad, Egypt, defeating Tonya Verbeek, defeating Geeta Kumari, India and defeating Jackeline Renteria Castillo, Colombia
2013	1.	Intern. Tournament in Kiev	up to 51 kg	before Lilija Horischna, Ukraine, Roksana Zasina, Poland and Alena Adaschinskaja, Russia

Explanations

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

swell

• Trade journal Der Ringer
• Foeldeak Wrestling Database website

Web links

• Tetjana Lasarewa in the Olympedia.org database (English)