Evelina Georgieva Nikolova (Bulgarian: Евелина Георгиева Николова; born 18 January 1993, Petrich) is a Bulgarian freestyle wrestler. She won one of the bronze medals in the women's 57 kg event at the 2020 Summer Olympics held in Tokyo, Japan.[1] She won a bronze medal at the 2015 World Wrestling Championships held in Las Vegas, United States.[2] She is also a three-time medalist at the European Wrestling Championships and a bronze medalist at the European Games.

Evelina Nikolova

Evelina Nikolova at the 2021 World Wrestling Championships in Oslo, Norway
Personal information
Native name	Евелина Георгиева Николова
Birth name	Evelina Georgieva Nikolova
Nationality	Bulgaria
Born	(1993-01-18) 18 January 1993 (age 29) Petrich, Bulgaria
Height	167 cm (5.48 ft; 66 in)
Sport
Country	Bulgaria
Sport	Amateur wrestling
Weight class	55–57 kg
Event(s)	Freestyle
Medal record Women's freestyle wrestling Representing  Bulgaria Olympic Games 2020 Tokyo 57 kg World Championships 2015 Las Vegas 55 kg European Games 2015 Baku 55 kg European Championships 2019 Bucharest 55 kg 2022 Budapest 57 kg 2021 Warsaw 57 kg Yasar Dogu Tournament 2022 Istanbul 57 kg 2021 Istanbul 59 kg

Career

She represented Bulgaria at the 2015 European Games held in Baku, Azerbaijan and she won one of the bronze medals in the 55 kg event.[3][4] In that same year, she also won a bronze medal in the 55 kg event at the 2015 World Wrestling Championships held in Las Vegas, United States.[2] In her bronze medal match she defeated Pang Qianyu of China.[2]

At the 2019 European Wrestling Championships held in Bucharest, Romania, she won the silver medal in the 55 kg event.[5][6] In the final, she lost against Iryna Husyak of Ukraine.[6] In 2020, she competed in the 55 kg event at the European Wrestling Championships where she was eliminated from the competition by Sofia Mattsson in her first match.[7] Mattsson went on to win one of the bronze medals.[7]

In March 2021, she qualified at the European Qualification Tournament to compete at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan.[8][9] A month later, she won one of the bronze medals in the 57 kg event at the 2021 European Wrestling Championships held in Warsaw, Poland.[10][11] At the 2020 Summer Olympics, she won her first match, against Jowita Wrzesień of Poland, in the women's 57 kg event and she also won her next match against Anastasia Nichita of Moldova.[1] She then lost in the semi-finals against Iryna Kurachkina of Belarus.[1] In her bronze medal match she defeated Valeria Koblova representing the Russian Olympic Committee.[1] In October 2021, she was eliminated in her second match in the women's 57 kg event at the World Wrestling Championships in Oslo, Norway.[12]

In February 2022, she won the gold medal in the 57 kg event at the Dan Kolov & Nikola Petrov Tournament held in Veliko Tarnovo, Bulgaria.[13] In that same month, she won the gold medal in her event at the Yasar Dogu Tournament held in Istanbul, Turkey.[14] In April 2022, she won the silver medal in the 57 kg event at the European Wrestling Championships held in Budapest, Hungary.[15][16] She competed in the 57 kg event at the 2022 World Wrestling Championships held in Belgrade, Serbia.[17]

Achievements

References

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Evelina Nikolova.

• Evelina Nikolova at International Wrestling Database
• Evelina Nikolova at Olympedia

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