Yana Rattigan

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Yana Rattigan
Medal record
Representing  Great Britain
Women's Wrestling
European Championships
Silver medal – second place 2010 Baku 48 kg
Silver medal – second place 2013 Tbilisi 48 kg
World Combat Games
Silver medal – second place 2010 Beijing 48 kg
Representing  England
Commonwealth Games
Silver medal – second place 2014 Glasgow 48 kg

Yana Rattigan (born Yana Stadnyk; 20 January 1987 in Lviv, Ukrainian SSR, USSR) is a Ukrainian born wrestler who competes internationally for Great Britain and England. She competed in the 2009 World Wrestling Championships finishing 5th in the 48 kg category and was 7th in the same weight category at the 2010 World Wrestling Championships. Her most notable performance came in the 2010 European Wrestling Championships where she won a silver medal, a feat repeated in 2013. She was the first woman to win a medal at European championship level for Britain.[1] In 2014, representing England she again won the silver medal at the 2014 Commonwealth Games.

Personal life

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Rattigan's brother is Olympic medallist Andriy Stadnik. Her sister-in-law Mariya Stadnik competes in the same weight category as Rattigan and was world champion in 2009. Rattigan married fellow wrestler Leon Rattigan in 2010, and began competing officially under her married name in 2014.

References

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  1. ^ "Yana Rattigan - British Wrestling Association". www.britishwrestling.org.
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