Ilana Kratysh
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| Native name | אילנה קרטיש Ilana Kratysh | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Nationality | Israeli | |||||||||||||||||||||
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July 6, 1990 Israel |
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| Residence | Haifa, Israel | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 169 cm (5 ft 7 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||
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| Country | Israel | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Sport | Women's Wrestling | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight class | 63–69 kilograms (139–152 lb) | |||||||||||||||||||||
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Ilana Kratysh (Hebrew: אילנה קרטיש; born July 6, 1990) is an Israeli freestyle wrestler.
She placed third at a 2012 Grand Prix Wrestling tournament in Belarus. Kratysh won the silver medal at the European Wrestling Championships in 2013 at 67 kilograms (148 lb), and that year she also won gold medals in the Grand Prix Faltz Open in Austria, Ukraine Grand Prix tournament, and a Grand Prix event in Sassari, Italy. She won the silver medal at the European Wrestling Championships in 2014 at 69 kilograms (152 lb). She also won a silver medal at 69 kg at the Grand Prix of Paris in February 2014. In March 2014, she was ranked third in the world in the 67 kg freestyle rankings.
At the age of 24, Kratysh won a silver medal representing Israel at the 2015 European Games in the women’s 69-kilogram freestyle wrestling competition in Baku, Azerbaijan.
Kratysh was born one hour after her parents Alexander and Galina Kratysh arrived in Israel from St. Petersburg, Russia, in 1990. Her family settled in Haifa, Israel. She had her bat mitzvah in Haifa, Israel, she and her family celebrate Jewish holidays such as Sukkot and Chanukah, and she often attends synagogue.
Her father trained national judo team of Saint Petersburg for five years when he lived in Russia, her brother is a judoka, and she began judo at age five and continued in it for 15 years. However, she suffered a significant judo injury when she was a member of the Israel Defense Forces, and turned to wrestling.
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