Anna Poliakova (maiden name Anna Zhigalova)[1][3][4] is a Russian amateur sumo wrestler. She has won gold medals in both the heavyweight and openweight categories in the 2009, 2013 and 2017 World Games.[1] She has also won seven golds at the Sumo World Championships. In 2018 she was nominated for the World Games Athlete of the Year award.[1]
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| Birth name | Anna Zhigalova | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Full name | Полякова Анна Сергеевна | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nationality |  Russia | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 10 December 1981 Russia Izhevsk, Udmurt Republic | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Years active | 2003- | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 186 cm (6 ft 1 in)[1] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 165 kg (364 lb)[2] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Sumo | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Biography
She was born in Izhevsk, Udmurt Republic.[5]
She played volleyball from the age of six to twelve,[5] and handball between from thirteen to twenty-one.[3] She is a graduate from Udmurt State University.[5] She has experience working as a swimming instructor in kindergarten.[3] She began Sumo training at September 2003.[5]
Competition
- She won the heavyweight class on 28 October 2012, at the 9th World Sumo Championships in Wan Chai.[6]
- In 2013, she won the heavyweight and openweight divisions of the World Games 2013 Women's Sumo held in Cali, Colombia.[4][7]
- On 18 and 19 October of the same year, he won the heavyweight and openweight divisions at the 2nd World Combat Games Women's Championship held in St. Petersburg, Russia.
- On 31 August 2014, she won the Openweight class at the 10th World Women's Sumo Championships held in Kaohsiung, Taiwan.
- On 30 July 2016, she won the 12th World Women's Sumo Championships in Mongolia in the individual open weight class.
- On 22 and 23 July 2017, she won the women's division of the 10th World Games 2017 in Wroclaw, Poland, in the heavyweight and openweight divisions.
- On 22 July 2018, she won the 13th World Women's Sumo Championships openweight individual competition at the Taoyuan Arena in Taiwan.
- On 13 October 2019, she won the individual heavyweight class at the 14th World Women's Sumo Championships held at Ohama Sumo Stadium in Sakai City, Japan.