Yana Rattigan
Medal record | ||
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Representing Great Britain | ||
Women's Wrestling | ||
European Championships | ||
2010 Baku | 48 kg | |
2013 Tbilisi | 48 kg | |
Representing England | ||
Commonwealth Games | ||
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 performanance came in the 2010 European Wrestling Championships where she won a silver medal, a feat repeated in 2013 . She was the first female 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
Rattigan's brother is Olympic medallist Andriy Stadnik. Her sister-in-law Mariya Stadnik competes in the same weight category as Yana and was World champion in 2009. She married fellow wrestler Leon Rattigan in 2010, and began competing officially under her married name in 2014.