Tetiana Sergeevna Omelchenko is a Ukrainian-Azerbaijani freestyle wrestler. She won the gold medal in the women's 60kg event at the 2017 Islamic Solidarity Games in Baku, Azerbaijan. She also won a bronze medal at the European Wrestling Championships in four consecutive years: 2017, 2018, 2019 and 2020.
Career
In 2016, Omelchenko competed in the women's freestyle 60kg at the World Wrestling Championships where she was eliminated in her only match, against Emese Barka. Barka went on to win one of the bronze medals.
In May 2017, Omelchenko won one of the bronze medals in the women's freestyle 60kg event at the European Wrestling Championships held in Novi Sad, Serbia. Later that month, she won the gold medal in the 60kg event at the 2017 Islamic Solidarity Games held in Baku, Azerbaijan.
In 2020, Omelchenko won one of the bronze medals in the 62kg event at the European Wrestling Championships held in Rome, Italy. In the same year, she competed in the women's 62kg event at the 2020 Individual Wrestling World Cup held in Belgrade, Serbia. In March 2021, Omelchenko competed at the European Qualification Tournament in Budapest, Hungary hoping to qualify for the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan. She lost her first match against Anastasija Grigorjeva of Latvia which meant that she could no longer qualify for the Olympics at this tournament. She also failed to qualify for the Olympics at the World Olympic Qualification Tournament held in Sofia, Bulgaria.
Omelchenko won one of the bronze medals in the 62kg event at the 2021 Islamic Solidarity Games held in Konya, Turkey. She competed in the 62kg event at the 2022 World Wrestling Championships held in Belgrade, Serbia. She was eliminated in the repechage by eventual bronze medalist Luo Xiaojuan of China.
Achievements
YearTournamentLocationResultEvent 2017European ChampionshipsNovi Sad, Serbia 3rdFreestyle 60kgIslamic Solidarity GamesBaku, Azerbaijan 1stFreestyle 60kg2018European ChampionshipsKaspiysk, Russia 3rdFreestyle 59kg2019European ChampionshipsBucharest, Romania 3rdFreestyle 62kg2020European ChampionshipsRome, Italy 3rdFreestyle 62kg2022Islamic Solidarity GamesKonya, Turkey 3rdFreestyle 62kg
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