MAKHACHKALA, June 11 – RIA Dagestan. Anastasia Yandushkina, representing Dagestan women's wrestling team, claimed a gold medal at the World Student Wrestling Championship in Brazil.
Competing in the up to 59 kg weight category, she helped the Russian women's national team to a successful tournament finish of five medals: two gold, two silver and one bronze.
On her path to the title, the athlete—who trains under Natalia Smirnova and Magomed Shaikhaliev—defeated opponents from Canada (4:3), Spain (11:0), the Czech Republic (by fall) and Poland (4:0).
Yandushkina is originally from Chuvashia and is a fourth-year student at Chuvash State Agrarian University. For more than two years, she has been training at the Dynamo Specialized Sports School of the Olympic Reserve.