Alena Filipava

Olympic wrestler

Born

10 October 1987, Minsk

Citizenship

Belarus

Sport

amateur wrestling

Occupation

amateur wrestler, athlete

Height

158 cm (5 ft 2 in)

Weight

55 kg (121 lb)

Alena Piatrouna Filipava (Belarusian: Алена Пятроўна Філіпава; born October 10, 1987, in Minsk) is an amateur Belarusian freestyle wrestler, who played for the women's featherweight category.

She won the bronze medal at the 2009 World Wrestling Championships in Herning, Denmark, against Tatiana Padilla of the United States, in addition to her silver at the European Championships in Vilnius, Lithuania.

Filipava made her official debut at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, where she competed for the 55 kg class in freestyle wrestling, an event which was imminently dominated by world champion Saori Yoshida from Japan. She lost the second preliminary match to Kazakhstan's Olga Smirnova, with a two-set technical score (3–2, 0–3, 2–4), and a classification score of 1–3, finishing only in thirteenth place.

Competitions

External links

• Wikipedia
• Wikidata

Facts from Wikidata Q4716116 (CC0); quoted introduction from English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Data retrieved 2026-10-22.

Data: Wikidata (CC0 1.0); Wikipedia (English) (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.