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Yuliya Ratkevich
Ratkevich at the 2016 Olympics
Personal information
Native nameЮлія Мікалаеўна Раткевіч
Born (1985-07-16) 16 July 1985 (age 39)
Minsk, Belarus
Medal record
Women's wrestling
Representing  Azerbaijan
Olympic Games
Bronze medal – third place 2012 London 55 kg
World Championships
Gold medal – first place 2009 Herning 59 kg
Silver medal – second place 2010 Moscow 55 kg
Bronze medal – third place 2013 Budapest 59 kg
Silver medal – second place 2014 Tashkent 60 kg
Bronze medal – third place 2015 Las Vegas 58 kg
European Championship
Gold medal – first place 2011 Dortmund 59 kg
Bronze medal – third place 2016 Riga 60 kg
Summer Universiade
Gold medal – first place Kazan 2013 59 kg
Representing  Belarus
European Championships
Bronze medal – third place 2005 Varna 59 kg

Yuliya Ratkevich (Template:Lang-be; Łacinka: Julija Mikałajeŭna Ratkievič; born 16 July 1985) is an Azerbaijani female wrestler. She is the 2012 Olympic bronze medalist in women's freestyle 55 kg. Early in her career, she competed for Belarus.

Career

Representing Belarus, Ratkevich won bronze in the 59 kg category at the 2005 European Championships in Varna. After switching to Azerbaijan, she won gold at the 2009 World Championships in Herning and at the 2011 European Championships in Dortmund.

Ratkevich competed in women's freestyle 55 kg at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London. She beat Maria Prevolaraki of Greece in the round of 16, but lost to Saori Yoshida in the next round. Ratkevich thus qualified for the repechage round where she beat American wrestler Kelsey Campbell. In the bronze medal final, she beat Valeria Zholobova from Russia.[1]

Ratkevich also competed in women's freestyle 58 kg at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.[2] She lost to Tunisia's Marwa Amri in the bronze medal round.

References

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