Veronika Chumikova

Veronika Gennadievna Chumikova (, born 4 July 1994) is a Russian freestyle wrestler of Chuvash heritage. She is a silver medalist at the European Wrestling Championships. She also won a medal at the Golden Grand Prix Ivan Yarygin held in Krasnoyarsk, Russia on six occasions (in 2014, 2017, 2018, 2020, 2022 and 2024).

Career

Chumikova won the gold medal in the women's 58 kg event at the 2016 World University Wrestling Championships held in Çorum, Turkey. In 2018, she competed at the Klippan Lady Open in Klippan, Sweden without winning a medal. Later that year, Chumikova won the gold medal in the women's 59 kg event at the 2018 Russian National Women's Freestyle Wrestling Championships held in Smolensk, Russia.

In 2020, Chumikova won one of the bronze medals in the women's 57 kg event at the Individual Wrestling World Cup held in Belgrade, Serbia. In March 2021, she competed at the European Qualification Tournament in Budapest, Hungary hoping to earn a place for a competitor at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan. She lost her first match against Evelina Nikolova of Bulgaria which meant that she could no longer earn a spot for the Olympics in this tournament. In May 2021, Chumikova earned an Olympic spot in the women's 57 kg event for the ROC at the World Olympic Qualification Tournament. Valeria Koblova competed in the women's 57 kg event at the 2020 Summer Olympics.

In October 2021, Chumikova lost her bronze medal match in the women's 57 kg event at the World Wrestling Championships in Oslo, Norway. In January 2022, she won one of the bronze medals in the women's 57 kg event at the Golden Grand Prix Ivan Yarygin held in Krasnoyarsk, Russia. In February 2022, she also won one of the bronze medals in the 57 kg event at the Yasar Dogu Tournament held in Istanbul, Turkey.

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