Aline Rotter-Focken

Aline Rotter-Focken

Focken in 2011
Personal information
Birth name	Aline Focken
Nationality	German
Born	10 May 1991 (1991-05-10) (age 32) Krefeld, Germany
Height	1.76 m (5 ft 9 in)
Weight	80 kg (176 lb)
Sport
Country	Germany
Sport	Freestyle wrestling
Weight class	69 kg / 76 kg
Club	KSV Germania, Krefeld
Coached by	Hans-Georg Focken
Medal record Women's freestyle wrestling Representing  Germany Olympic Games 2020 Tokyo 76 kg World Championships 2014 Tashkent 69 kg 2017 Paris 69 kg 2015 Las Vegas 69 kg 2019 Nur-Sultan 76 kg European Games 2015 Baku 69 kg European Wrestling Championships 2013 Tbilisi 67 kg 2019 Bucharest 76 kg 2020 Rome 76 kg Individual World Cup 2020 Belgrade 76 kg Golden Grand Prix Ivan Yarygin 2019 Krasnoyarsk 76 kg Sassari City Matteo Pellicone Memorial 2019 Sassari 76 kg Dan Kolov - Nikola Petrov Tournament 2019 Sofia 76 kg

Aline Rotter-Focken (née Focken; born 10 May 1991) is a German freestyle wrestler. She won the world title in the 69 kg division in 2014 and a bronze medal in the 67 kg category at the 2013 European Championships. At the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo she won the Gold.

She started wrestling in 1996 under the guidance of her father, Hans-Georg Focken.^[1]

In 2020, she won the gold medal in the women's 76 kg event at the 2020 Individual Wrestling World Cup held in Belgrade, Serbia.^[2][3] In 2021, she won the gold medal in her event at the 2021 Poland Open held in Warsaw, Poland.^[4][5] She took gold at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo.^[6]

Match results

World Championships & Olympics & Ranking Games
Res.	Record	Opponent	Head-to-Head	Round	Score	Note	Date	Event	Location	Video
2020 UWW World at 76 kg[7]
Win		Yasemin Adar	1-4	Gold medal	2-1	Win by fall	December 16, 2020	2020 Individual Wrestling World Cup	Belgrade, Serbia	[1]
Win		Aiperi Medet Kyzy	1-0	Semifinal	6-4		December 15, 2020			[2]
Win		Ekaterina Bukina	2-0	Quarterfinal	10-0	Win by Superiority				[3]
2020 UWW European at 76 kg[8]
Win		Denise LECARPENTIER	1-0	Bronze medal	10-0	Win by Superiority	February 13, 2020	European Championship 2020	Rome, Italy	[4]
Win		Kamila Czeslawa KULWICKA	1-0	Repechage	10-0	Win by Superiority	February 12, 2020			[5]
Loss		Yasemin Adar	1-4	Round of 8	4-5					[6]
2020 UWW Matteo Pellicone at 76 kg[9]
Win		Vasilisa Marzaliuk	1-1	Bronze medal	4-2		January 16, 2020	Matteo Pellicone 2020	Rome, Italy	[7]
Win		Andrimar Daniela LAZARO DIAZ	1-0	Repechage	10-0	Win by Superiority				[8]
Loss		Erica Elizabeth Wiebe	0-5	Quarerfinals	0-3					[9]
Win		Alla Belinska	4-0	Round of 8	5-2					[10]
2019 UWW World at 76 kg[10]
Win		Elmira Syzdykova	2-0	Bronze medal	3-0		September 19, 2019	2019 World Wrestling Championships	Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan	[11]
Loss		Adeline Gray	0-1	Semifinals	2-5		September 18, 2019			[12]
Win		Alla Belinska	4-0	Quarerfinals	5-1					[13]
Win		Sabira Aliyeva	1-0	Round of 16	10-0	Win by Superiority				[14]
Win		Kiran Bishnoi	1-0	Round of 32	5-4					[15]
2019 UWW Yasar Dogu at 76 kg[11]
Loss		Yasemin Adar	1-4	Bronze medal	3-10		July 14, 2019	Yasar Dogu 2019	Istanbul, Italy	[16]
Loss		Erica Elizabeth Wiebe	0-5	Semifinal	0-3		July 13, 2019			[17]
Win		Elmira Syzdykova	2-0	Quarterfinal	2-1					[18]
Win		Gulmaral Yerkebayeva	2-0	Round of 8	11-0	Win by Superiority				[19]
2019 UWW Ranking Games at 76 kg[12]
Win		Iselin Maria Moen SOLHEIM	1-0	Bronze medal	8-0		May 24, 2019	24th International Tournament, City of Sassari	Sassari, Italy
Loss		Erica Elizabeth Wiebe	0-5	Semifinal	3-2
Win		Gulmaral Yerkebayeva	2-0	Quarterfinal	5-4
Win		Aline Da Silva Ferreira	1-0	Round of 8	4-3
2019 UWW European at 76 kg[13]
Win		Kamilė Gaučaitė	1-0	Bronze medal	6-0	Win by fall	April 11, 2019	2019 European Wrestling Championships	Bucharest, Romania	[20]
Loss		Yasemin Adar	1-4	Semifinal	5-2		April 10, 2019			[21]
Win		Epp Mäe	1-1	Quarterfinal	8-4					[22]
Win		Alla Belinska	4-0	Round of 8	6-0					[23]
Win		Enrica Rinaldi	1-0	Qualification	11-0					[24]
2019 Dan Kolov - Nikola Petrov at 76 kg[14]
Win		Juan Wang	1-0	Bronze medal	7-2		March 2, 2019	2019 Dan Kolov - Nikola Petrov Tournament	Sofia, Bulgaria	[25]
Loss		Yasemin Adar	1-4	Semifinal	6-5	Win by fall	March 1, 2019			[26]
Win		Alla Belinska	4-0	Quarterfinal	12-1					[27]
Win		Boryana Tsvetkova Borisova	2-0	Round of 8	10-0					[28]
Grand Prix Ivan Yariguin 2019 at 76 kg[15]
Win		Mabelkis Capote Perez	1-0	Bronze medal	4-0	Win By Fall	January 27, 2019	Grand Prix Ivan Yariguin 2019	Krasnoyarsk, Russia	[29]
Loss		Vasilisa Marzaliuk	1-1	Semifinal	5-5		January 26, 2019			[30]
Win		Naranchimeg Gelegjamts	1-0	Quarterfinal	10-3					[31]
Win		Kseniia Burakova	1-0	Round of 8	7-0					[32]
2018 UWW World 8th at 76 kg[16]
Lose		Erica Elizabeth Wiebe	0-5	Quarterfinal	4-6		24 October 2019	2018 World Wrestling Championships	Budapest, Hungary	[33]
Win		Cynthia Vescan	1-0	Round of 16	4-0					[34]
Win		Anastasia Shustova	2-0	Round of 32	12-0					[35]
2018 Poland Open at 76 kg[17]
Loss		Erica Elizabeth Wiebe	0-5	Gold medal	0-7		September 9, 2018	Poland Open 2018	Warsaw, Poland	[36]
Win		Paliha Paliha	1-0	Semifinal	8-0	Win by fall	September 8, 2019			[37]
Win		Anastasiia Shustova	2-0	Quarterfinal	8-0	Win by fall				[38]
2018 Dan Kolov - Nikola Petrov at 76 kg[18]
Win		Ekaterina Bukina	2-0	Gold medal	10-0	Win by Superiority	March 24, 2018	2018 Dan Kolov - Nikola Petrov Tournament	Sofia, Bulgaria	[39]
Win		Svetlana Saenko	1-0	Semifinal	3-0	Win by fall	March 23, 2018			[40]
Win		Anna Urbanowicz	4-0	Quarterfinal	10-0	Win by Superiority				[41]
2018 UWW World 8th at Klippan Lady Open 76][19]
Lose		Epp Mäe	1-1	Quarterfinal	2-6		16 February 2018	Klippan Lady Open 2018	Klippan, Sweden	[42]
Win		Leah Mariem Lorraine Ferguson	1-0	Qualification	11-1	(4:43)				[43]
2017 UWW World at 69 kg[20]
Loss		Sara Dosho	0-1	Gold medal	0-3		August, 2017	2017 World Wrestling Championships	Paris, France	[44]

References

External links

• Aline Rotter Focken at the International Wrestling Database (alternate link)
• Aline Rotter Focken at United World Wrestling
• Aline Focken at Olympics.com
• Aline Focken at Olympic.org (archived)
• Aline Focken at the Deutscher Olympischer Sportbund (in German)
• Official website at the Wayback Machine (archived 22 March 2013) (in German)

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Olympic Champions in women's freestyle heavyweight

• 2004  Wang Xu (CHN)
• 2008  Wang Jiao (CHN)
• 2012  Natalia Vorobieva (RUS)
• 2016  Erica Wiebe (CAN)
• 2020  Aline Rotter-Focken (GER)

• 2004–2012: 72 kg
• 2016: 75 kg
• 2020–present: 76 kg