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In the history of its participation to the Olympic Games, Romania won 33 medals in wrestling, of which 7 gold, 8 silver and 19
\nbronze. All of them came from the men’s competitions. At the 2004 Athens Games,
\nhowever, the Olympic programme also introduced women’s wrestling. At the moment,
\nonly one Romanian female wrestler has qualified for the Tokyo Olympic Games. She
\nis Alina Vuc, who booked her Olympic ticket after the World Championships held
\nin September last year in Nursultan, the capital of Kazakhstan. She won the
\nsilver medal in the 50 kg category. <\/p>\n
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In the
\nWorld Championship preliminaries, Vuc defeated the German wrestler Ellen
\nRiesterer and Taiwan’s Meng Hsuan Hsieh in the round of last 16. She then
\ndefeated the European champion and bronze medallist at the 2018 World
\nChampionships Oksana Livac of Ukraine in the quarterfinals and the Kazakh wrestler
\nValentina Brik in the semifinals. In the final, Vuc lost to Azerbaijan’s Maria
\nStadnik, a many-times European champion, former world champion and Olympic
\nvice-champion. <\/p>\n
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Alina Vuc
\nwas born on 4th October 1993 in Resita, in western Romania. She took
\nup wrestling when she was ten years old, when she joined the local club CSM
\nResita. She later joined the Steaua Bucharest army sports club. Her first notable
\nsuccess as a senior came in 2016 when she won the silver medal at the European
\nChampionships in Riga, having been defeated in the final by Azerbaijan’s Maria
\nStadnik. Vuc then qualified for the 2016 Olympic Games, but she lost in the
\nfirst round. One year later in Paris, she won the silver medal at the World
\nChampionships in the 48 kg category. This was the first medal ever won by a
\nRomanian female wrestler in a world competition.<\/p>\n
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