Aline Rotter-Focken

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.

Aline Rotter-Focken

Focken in 2011
Personal information
Birth name	Aline Focken
Born	10 May 1991 (1991-05-10) (age 33) 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

Career

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	16 December 2020	2020 Individual Wrestling World Cup	Belgrade, Serbia
Win		Aiperi Medet Kyzy	1-0	Semifinal	6-4		15 December 2020
Win		Ekaterina Bukina	2-0	Quarterfinal	10-0	Win by Superiority
2020 UWW European at 76 kg[8]
Win		Denise LECARPENTIER	1-0	Bronze medal	10-0	Win by Superiority	13 February 2020	European Championship 2020	Rome, Italy
Win		Kamila Czeslawa KULWICKA	1-0	Repechage	10-0	Win by Superiority	12 February 2020
Loss		Yasemin Adar	1-4	Round of 8	4-5
2020 UWW Matteo Pellicone at 76 kg[9]
Win		Vasilisa Marzaliuk	1-1	Bronze medal	4-2		16 January 2020	Matteo Pellicone 2020	Rome, Italy
Win		Andrimar Daniela LAZARO DIAZ	1-0	Repechage	10-0	Win by Superiority
Loss		Erica Elizabeth Wiebe	0-5	Quarerfinals	0-3
Win		Alla Belinska	4-0	Round of 8	5-2
2019 UWW World at 76 kg[10]
Win		Elmira Syzdykova	2-0	Bronze medal	3-0		19 September 2019	2019 World Wrestling Championships	Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan
Loss		Adeline Gray	0-1	Semifinals	2-5		18 September 2019
Win		Alla Belinska	4-0	Quarerfinals	5-1
Win		Sabira Aliyeva	1-0	Round of 16	10-0	Win by Superiority
Win		Kiran Bishnoi	1-0	Round of 32	5-4
2019 UWW Yasar Dogu at 76 kg[11]
Loss		Yasemin Adar	1-4	Bronze medal	3-10		14 July 2019	Yasar Dogu 2019	Istanbul, Italy
Loss		Erica Elizabeth Wiebe	0-5	Semifinal	0-3		13 July 2019
Win		Elmira Syzdykova	2-0	Quarterfinal	2-1
Win		Gulmaral Yerkebayeva	2-0	Round of 8	11-0	Win by Superiority
2019 UWW Ranking Games at 76 kg[12]
Win		Iselin Maria Moen SOLHEIM	1-0	Bronze medal	8-0		24 May 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	11 April 2019	2019 European Wrestling Championships	Bucharest, Romania
Loss		Yasemin Adar	1-4	Semifinal	5-2		10 April 2019
Win		Epp Mäe	1-1	Quarterfinal	8-4
Win		Alla Belinska	4-0	Round of 8	6-0
Win		Enrica Rinaldi	1-0	Qualification	11–0
2019 Dan Kolov - Nikola Petrov at 76 kg[14]
Win		Juan Wang	1-0	Bronze medal	7-2		2 March 2019	2019 Dan Kolov - Nikola Petrov Tournament	Sofia, Bulgaria
Loss		Yasemin Adar	1-4	Semifinal	6-5	Win by fall	1 March 2019
Win		Alla Belinska	4-0	Quarterfinal	12-1
Win		Boryana Tsvetkova Borisova	2-0	Round of 8	10-0
Grand Prix Ivan Yariguin 2019 at 76 kg[15]
Win		Mabelkis Capote Perez	1-0	Bronze medal	4-0	Win By Fall	27 January 2019	Grand Prix Ivan Yariguin 2019	Krasnoyarsk, Russia
Loss		Vasilisa Marzaliuk	1-1	Semifinal	5-5		26 January 2019
Win		Naranchimeg Gelegjamts	1-0	Quarterfinal	10-3
Win		Kseniia Burakova	1-0	Round of 8	7-0
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
Win		Cynthia Vescan	1-0	Round of 16	4-0
Win		Anastasia Shustova	2-0	Round of 32	12-0
2018 Poland Open at 76 kg[17]
Loss		Erica Elizabeth Wiebe	0-5	Gold medal	0-7		9 September 2018	Poland Open 2018	Warsaw, Poland
Win		Paliha Paliha	1-0	Semifinal	8-0	Win by fall	8 September 2019
Win		Anastasiia Shustova	2-0	Quarterfinal	8-0	Win by fall
2018 Dan Kolov - Nikola Petrov at 76 kg[18]
Win		Ekaterina Bukina	2–0	Gold medal	10-0	Win by Superiority	24 March 2018	2018 Dan Kolov - Nikola Petrov Tournament	Sofia, Bulgaria
Win		Svetlana Saenko	1-0	Semifinal	3-0	Win by fall	23 March 2018
Win		Anna Urbanowicz	4-0	Quarterfinal	10-0	Win by Superiority
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
Win		Leah Mariem Lorraine Ferguson	1-0	Qualification	11-1	(4:43)
2017 UWW World at 69 kg[20]
Loss		Sara Dosho	0-1	Gold medal	0-3		August, 2017	2017 World Wrestling Championships	Paris, France

References

1. "Focken, Aline (GER)". iat.uni-leipzig.de. Archived from the original on 11 September 2014. Retrieved 11 September 2014.
2. Shefferd, Neil (16 December 2020). "Russia claim team title on final day of women's action at UWW Individual World Cup". InsideTheGames.biz. Inside the Games. Retrieved 17 October 2021.
3. "2020 Individual Wrestling World Cup Results Book" (PDF). unitedworldwrestling.org. United World Wrestling. Archived (PDF) from the original on 18 December 2020. Retrieved 18 December 2020.
4. Rowbottom, Mike (10 June 2021). "Stadnik unstoppable on day one of women's wrestling at Poland Open". InsideTheGames.biz. Inside the Games. Retrieved 4 July 2021.
5. "2021 Poland Open Results Book" (PDF). UWW.org. United World Wrestling. Archived (PDF) from the original on 4 July 2021. Retrieved 4 July 2021.
6. "Wrestling Results Book" (PDF). Tokyo 2020 Olympics. Tokyo Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games. Archived (PDF) from the original on 7 August 2021. Retrieved 8 August 2021.
7. "2020 Individual World Cup". unitedworldwrestling.org. United World Wrestling. December 2020.
8. "European Championship 2020". UWW.org. United World Wrestling. February 2020.
9. "Matteo Pellicone 2020". UWW.org. United World Wrestling. January 2020.
10. "2019 World Wrestling Championships". unitedworldwrestling.org. United World Wrestling. September 2019.
11. "2019". UWW.org. United World Wrestling. July 2019.
12. "Sassari City Matteo Pellicone Memorial 2019". UWW.org. United World Wrestling. May 2019.
13. "European Championship 2019". unitedworldwrestling.org. United World Wrestling. April 2019.
14. "Dan Kolov - Nikola Petrov". UWW.org. United World Wrestling. March 2019.
15. "Grand Prix Ivan Yariguin". UWW.org. United World Wrestling. January 2019.
16. "World Championship 2018". unitedworldwrestling.org. United World Wrestling. October 2018.
17. "Grand Prix Ivan Yariguin". UWW.org. United World Wrestling. September 2018.
18. "Dan Kolov - Nikola Petrov". UWW.org. United World Wrestling. March 2018.
19. "Klippan Lady Open". unitedworldwrestling.org. United World Wrestling. May 2019.
20. "2017 World Wrestling Championships". unitedworldwrestling.org. United World Wrestling. August 2019.

External links

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