Alina Vuc

Emilia Alina Vuc (born 4 October 1993) is a Romanian freestyle wrestler. She is a two-time silver medalist at the World Wrestling Championships and a four-time medalist at the European Wrestling Championships. She competed in the women's freestyle 48kg event at the 2016 Summer Olympics, in which she was eliminated in the round of 16 by Vinesh Phogat. She also represented Romania in the women's 50kg event at the 2020 Summer Olympics held in Tokyo, Japan.

Career

In 2018, she won one of the bronze medals in the women's 50kg event at the Klippan Lady Open in Klippan, Sweden. In 2021, she won the bronze medal in the 50 kg event at the Matteo Pellicone Ranking Series 2021 held in Rome, Italy. In October 2021, she lost her bronze medal match in the women's 50kg event at the World Wrestling Championships in Oslo, Norway.

In 2022, she won the gold medal in the 50kg event at the Yasar Dogu Tournament held in Istanbul, Turkey. In late March 2022, she won one of the bronze medals in the 50 kg event at the European Wrestling Championships held in Budapest, Hungary She lost her bronze medal match in the women's 50kg event at the 2022 World Wrestling Championships held in Belgrade, Serbia.

Achievements

Vuc has won major medals at both the World Wrestling Championships and the European Wrestling Championships. She won silver medals at the 2017 World Wrestling Championships in Paris in the 48 kg category and at the 2019 World Wrestling Championships in Nur-Sultan in the 50 kg category. At the European Championships, she won silver in 2016 and 2018 and bronze in 2017 and 2022. She also won the 50 kg event at the 2022 Yasar Dogu Tournament in Istanbul. In 2025, she finished fifth in the 50 kg event at the 2025 European Wrestling Championships in Bratislava, reaching the semifinals before losing to Evin Demirhan Yavuz and subsequently losing the bronze-medal bout to Natallia Varakina. In 2026, Vuc returned to the European Championships in Tirana, where she won a bronze medal in the 50 kg category after defeating Agata Marta Goluchowska-Walerczak in the bronze-medal match.

Year Tournament Location Result Event 2017 World Championships Paris, France 2nd Freestyle 48kg 2019 World Championships Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan 2nd Freestyle 50kg