Miglena Selishka

Miglena Georgieva Selishka (; born 13 February 1996) is a Bulgarian freestyle wrestler. At the 2020 European Wrestling Championships held in Rome, Italy, she won the gold medal in the women's 50kg event. She also won the silver medal in this event in 2019, 2021 and 2022. She competed in the women's 50kg event at the 2020 Summer Olympics held in Tokyo, Japan.

Career

Selishka won the gold medal in the 44kg event at the 2013 European Juniors Wrestling Championships held in Skopje, North Macedonia. She repeated this a year later at the 2014 European Juniors Wrestling Championships held in Warsaw, Poland. Selishka also won one of the bronze medals in her event at the 2014 World Junior Wrestling Championships held in Zagreb, Croatia. In 2015, she won the gold medal in her event at the European Juniors Wrestling Championships held in Istanbul, Turkey. In 2016, Selishka won one of the bronze medals in the 48kg event at the World Junior Wrestling Championships held in Mâcon, France.

In 2017, Selishka won one of the bronze medals in the 48kg event at the Golden Grand Prix Ivan Yarygin held in Krasnoyarsk, Russia. In that same year, she also competed in the 48kg event at the 2017 European Wrestling Championships in Novi Sad, Serbia where she was eliminated in her first match by Milana Dadasheva. Later that year, Selishka competed in the 48kg event at the 2017 World Wrestling Championships without winning a medal. She was eliminated in her second match by Jasmine Mian of Canada. In that same year, she represented Bulgaria at the 2019 World Beach Games in Doha, Qatar and she won the silver medal in the women's 50kg event. In 2020, Selishka won one of the bronze medals in the women's 50kg event at the Individual Wrestling World Cup held in Belgrade, Serbia.

In March 2021, Selishka won the silver medal in the 50kg event at the Matteo Pellicone Ranking Series held in Rome, Italy. In the same month, she also qualified at the European Qualification Tournament to compete at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan. In April 2021, she won the silver medal in the 50kg event at the European Wrestling Championships held in Warsaw, Poland. In October 2021, Selishka competed in the women's 50kg event at the World Wrestling Championships held in Oslo, Norway.

In February 2022, Selishka won the gold medal in the 50kg event at the Dan Kolov & Nikola Petrov Tournament held in Veliko Tarnovo, Bulgaria. In that same month, she also won one of the bronze medals in her event at the Yasar Dogu Tournament held in Istanbul, Turkey. In March 2022, Selishka won the silver medal in the 50kg event at the European Wrestling Championships held in Budapest, Hungary. In September 2022, she competed in the 50kg event at the World Wrestling Championships held in Belgrade, Serbia.

Selishka won one of the bronze medals in the women's 50kg event at the 2023 Dan Kolov & Nikola Petrov Tournament held in Sofia, Bulgaria. She also won one of the bronze medals in the women's 50kg event at the 2024 European Wrestling Championships held in Bucharest, Romania. Selishka competed at the 2024 European Wrestling Olympic Qualification Tournament in Baku, Azerbaijan hoping to qualify for the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris, France. She was eliminated in her first match and she did not qualify for the Olympics.

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