Personal information | |
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Native name | Polina Gurýewa |
National team | Turkmenistan |
Born | [1] Ashgabat, Turkmenistan | 5 October 1999
Years active | 2011–present |
Sport | |
Country | Turkmenistan |
Sport | Weightlifting |
Event(s) | 63 kg (2017), 59 kg (2020–) |
Team | National team |
Medal record |
Polina Aleksandrovna Guryeva ( Turkmen: Polina Aleksandrowna Gurýewa, Russian: Полина Александровна Гурьева, born 5 October 1999) is a Turkmenistani weightlifter. She competed at the 2020 Summer Olympics held in Tokyo in 2021 and won a silver medal in the women's 59 kg competition. [2] [3] This was the first ever Olympic medal for Turkmenistan. [4] [5]
She is one of the few Turkmens who won Olympic medals, joining the likes of the late Marat Nyýazow (who represented the USSR at the 1960 Olympics in Rome) [6] and Daniyar İsmayilov (an ethnic Turkmen who represents Turkey).
Guryeva was born on 5 October 1999 in Ashgabat. She is ethnic Russian. [7] She started to do artistic gymnastics in 2011 in Ashgabat, and eventually moved to weightlifting. [8]
Guryeva is a student of the Turkmen State Institute of Physical Culture and Sports. She lives and trains in Ashgabat; her coach as of 2021 was Artur Emiryan. [8]
For winning the first Olympic medal, the Turkmen State presented Polina Guryeva with a Lexus LX570 Sport Plus car, a new three-room apartment and 50 thousand US dollars. [9]
Year | Venue | Weight | Snatch (kg) | Clean & Jerk (kg) | Total | Rank | ||||||
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1 | 2 | 3 | Rank | 1 | 2 | 3 | Rank | |||||
Olympic Games | ||||||||||||
2021 | Tokyo, Japan | 59 kg | 93 | 96 | 3 | 116 | 119 | 121 | 2 | 217 |