Maider Unda

Maider Unda

Maider Unda (right) v Ochirbatyn Burmaa at the 2012 Olympics
Personal information
Birth name Maider Unda González de Audicana
Nationality Basque
Born (1977-07-02) 2 July 1977
Vitoria, Basque Country
Residence Aramaio, Basque Country, Spain
Height 1.76 m (5 ft 9 in)
Weight 72 kg (159 lb)
Sport
Sport Wrestling
Event(s) Freestyle
This name uses Spanish naming customs: the first or paternal family name is Unda and the second or maternal family name is González de Audicana.

Maider Unda González de Audicana (born on 2 July 1977 in Vitoria) is a Basque female freestyle wrestler.

She participated in Women's freestyle wrestling 72 kg at the 2008 Summer Olympics. In the 1/8 final she beat Oksana Vashchuk (Ukraine). In the quarter-final she lost to Stanka Zlateva (Bulgaria). In the repechage round, after beating Canadian Ohenewa Akuffo she lost to Agnieszka Wieszczek in the bronze medal match.

At the 2012 Summer Olympics, she won the bronze medal in Women's freestyle wrestling 72 kg. In the 1/8 final she beat Ana Betancur from Colombia, and Burmaa Ochirbat from Mongolia in quarter-final. She lost in the semi-final against Stanka Zlateva but beat Vasilisa Marzaliuk (Belarus) for the bronze medal.

Apart from her career in sport, Unda runs a sheep farm in the village of Olaeta in Aramaio producing Idiazabal cheese.

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