Elizaveta Petliakova

Elizaveta Petliakova
Personal information
NationalityRussian
Born (2003-12-05) 5 December 2003
Sport
SportWrestling
Weight class65–68 kg
Event
Freestyle
Medal record
Women's freestyle wrestling
Representing United World Wrestling
Grand Prix
2025 Tirana 65 kg
World U23 Championships
2025 Novi Sad 65 kg
Representing Individual Neutral Athletes
Grand Prix
2025 Zagreb 65 kg
European U23 Championships
2024 Baku 68 kg
World U20 Championships
2023 Amman 68 kg
Representing  Russia
World U20 Championships
2021 Ufa 68 kg

Elizaveta Petliakova (Russian: Елизавета Романовна Петлякова; born 5 December 2003) is a Russian freestyle wrestler. She is the gold medalist of the 2025 U23 World Wrestling Championships in Novi Sad and the 2024 European U23 Wrestling Championships in Baku. She also won silver medals at the 2021 and 2023 U20 World Championships.[1][2]

Career

Petliakova began wrestling in her hometown of Lipetsk, where her first coach was Sergey Yakovlev. Since 2017, she has lived and trained in Saint Petersburg, representing the UOR #1/CSHVM club under coaches Dmitry Gercheglo and Sergey Yakovlev.[3]

She achieved her first notable result in 2015 by winning a national youth tournament in Ryazan. In 2021, she became Russian junior champion and went on to win bronze at the 2021 European U20 Wrestling Championships in Dortmund and silver at the 2021 U20 World Wrestling Championships in Ufa. She repeated this success in 2023, winning silver again at the 2023 U20 World Wrestling Championships in Amman.

At the senior level, Petliakova won bronze medals at the Russian Women's Wrestling Championships in 2022 (Ufa) and 2024 (Krasnoyarsk), as well as multiple podium finishes at tournaments such as the Ivan Yarygin Memorial and Alexander Medved Grand Prix. In 2024, she captured the European U23 title in Baku, defeating Ukrainian wrestler Manola Skobelskaya in the final. The following year, she became the U23 World Champion in Novi Sad in the 65 kg category.[4]

References

  1. ^ "Athlete results – Elizaveta Petliakova". United World Wrestling. Retrieved 27 May 2025.
  2. ^ "Petliyakova, Elizaveta". United World Wrestling. Retrieved 27 May 2025.
  3. ^ "Elizaveta Petliakova: "I cried when the American anthem played"". bezformata.com (in Russian). Retrieved 15 September 2021.
  4. ^ "Elizaveta Petliakova profile". UWW.org. Retrieved 27 May 2025.