Alina Hrushyna

Alina Hrushyna-Akobiia (sometimes: Alina Akobiyan) is a Ukrainian freestyle wrestler. She won one of the bronze medals in the 57 kg event at the 2022 World Wrestling Championships held in Belgrade, Serbia. She is a four-time medalist, including two gold medals, at the European Wrestling Championships.

Alina Hrushyna-Akobiia

Personal information
Native name	Аліна Давидівна Акобія
Sport
Country	Ukraine
Sport	Amateur wrestling
Weight class	57 kg
Event	Freestyle
Medal record Women's freestyle wrestling Representing  Ukraine World Championships 2022 Belgrade 57 kg European Championships 2022 Budapest 57 kg 2023 Zagreb 57 kg 2020 Rome 57 kg 2021 Warsaw 57 kg World U23 Championships 2021 Belgrade 57 kg 2019 Budapest 57 kg 2017 Bydgoszcz 55 kg 2022 Pontevedra 57 kg European U23 Championship 2021 Skopje 57 kg 2018 Istanbul 57 kg 2019 Novi Sad 57 kg

She married Oleksandr Hrushyn, a Ukrainian Greco-Roman world team member 2022.^[1]

Career

In 2019, at the World U23 Wrestling Championship in Budapest, Hungary, she won the silver medal in the 57 kg event.^[2][3] Two years earlier, at the 2017 World U23 Wrestling Championship held in Bydgoszcz, Poland, she won one of the bronze medals in the 55 kg event.

At the 2020 European Wrestling Championships held in Rome, Italy, she won the silver medal in the women's 57 kg event.^[4][5] In the final, she lost against Grace Bullen of Norway.^[5]

In March 2021, Hrushyna earned a spot in the women's 57 kg event at the European Qualification Tournament for a Ukrainian wrestler to compete at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan.^[6][7] Tetyana Kit competed in the women's 57 kg event.

In May 2021, Hrushyna won the gold medal in her event at the European U23 Wrestling Championship held in Skopje, North Macedonia.^[8] In November 2021, she also won the gold medal in the 57 kg event at the 2021 U23 World Wrestling Championships held in Belgrade, Serbia.^[9][10]

In 2022, Hrushyna won the gold medal in the 57 kg event at the 2022 European Wrestling Championships held in Budapest, Hungary.^[11][12] She also won the gold medal in her event at the Matteo Pellicone Ranking Series 2022 held in Rome, Italy.^[13] She won one of the bronze medals in the 57 kg event at the 2022 World Wrestling Championships held in Belgrade, Serbia.^[14][15] A month later, she also won one of the bronze medals in her event at the 2022 U23 World Wrestling Championships held in Pontevedra, Spain.^[16]

Hrushyna won the silver medal in her event at the 2023 Ibrahim Moustafa Tournament held in Alexandria, Egypt.^[17] She won the gold medal in the 57 kg event at the 2023 European Wrestling Championships held in Zagreb, Croatia.^[18][19] She defeated Zhala Aliyeva of Azerbaijan in her gold medal match.^[18][19]

She competed at the 2024 European Wrestling Olympic Qualification Tournament in Baku, Azerbaijan hoping to qualify for the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris, France.

Achievements

Year	Tournament	Location	Result	Event
2020	European Championships	Rome, Italy	2nd	Freestyle 57 kg
2021	European Championships	Warsaw, Poland	3rd	Freestyle 57 kg
2022	European Championships	Budapest, Hungary	1st	Freestyle 57 kg
	World Championships	Belgrade, Serbia	3rd	Freestyle 57 kg
2023	European Championships	Zagreb, Croatia	1st	Freestyle 57 kg

References

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External links

• Alina Hrushyna at the International Wrestling Database 
• Alina Hrushyna at Olympedia