Olha Butkevych

Biography McGlinchey was born Olga Butkevych on 3 January 1986 in Zaporizhia, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union. She began wrestling at fourteen. She began competing for Great Britain at wrestling competitions, including the World Championships, where national citizenship is not required. She took third place in the women's competition at the European Wrestling Championships in April 2011, her first international medal for Great Britain. She placed second in the 2012 Summer Olympics wrestling test event in December 2011. She had originally been turned down for the citizenship in March 2012, but was awarded it on appeal. This was controversial and led to some newspapers labelling her as a "Plastic Brit". Fellow Ukrainian and British wrestling team member Yana Stadnik had her citizenship application turned down at the same time that McGlinchey's was awarded. McGlinchey was Great Britain's sole wrestler at the 2012 Summer Games, where she competed in the women's category. Great Britain were originally due to have three wrestling places, but the Olympic Qualification Standards ruled that it should be reduced to a single spot; with McGlinchey taking that spot. In the Olympic finals, she lost to Lissette Antes of Ecuador and was placed 11th in the final standings.

In September 2012, she became the first British wrestler to medal at the World Championships, when she won a bronze, in Edmonton, Canada.

In December 2013, McGlinchey competed at the Commonwealth Championship in Johannesburg, South Africa, and took silver.