Elis Manolova

She competed in the women's freestyle 69 kg event at the 2015 World Wrestling Championships held in Las Vegas, United States.[3] She was eliminated in her first match by Elmira Syzdykova of Kazakhstan. In 2016, she competed at the 2016 European Wrestling Olympic Qualification Tournament hoping to qualify for the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.[4] She did not qualify for the Olympics and she also lost her bronze medal match against Alina Berezhna of Ukraine.[4]

In 2017, she won one of the bronze medals in the women's 69 kg event at the Golden Grand Prix Ivan Yarygin 2017 held in Krasnoyarsk, Russia. A few months later, in May 2017, she competed in the women's freestyle 69 kg event at the 2017 European Wrestling Championships held in Novi Sad, Serbia. In that same month, at the 2017 Islamic Solidarity Games held in Baku, Azerbaijan, she won the gold medal in the women's freestyle 69 kg event. In the final, she defeated Zhamila Bakbergenova of Kazakhstan. In 2017, she also competed in the women's freestyle 69 kg event at the 2017 World Wrestling Championships held in Paris, France.[5]

In 2018, at the European Wrestling Championships held in Kaspiysk, Dagestan, Russia, she won the silver medal in the women's freestyle 65 kg event.[6] In 2019, she won the gold medal in that event.[7] The following year, she won the silver medal in the 65 kg event at the 2020 European Wrestling Championships held in Rome, Italy.[8][9] In that same year, she also won one of the bronze medals in the women's 65 kg event at the 2020 Individual Wrestling World Cup held in Belgrade, Serbia.[10][11]

• Elis Manolova at United World Wrestling