Maider Unda

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Maider Unda
File:Unda v Ochirbat (8374054690).jpg
Maider Unda (right) v Ochirbatyn Burmaa at the 2012 Olympics
Personal information
Birth name Maider Unda González de Audicana
Nationality Basque
Born (1977-07-02) 2 July 1977 (age 46)
Vitoria, Basque Country
Residence Aramaio, Basque Country, Spain
Height 1.76 m (5 ft 9 in)
Weight 72 kg (159 lb)
Sport
Sport Wrestling
Event(s) Freestyle

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Maider Unda González de Audicana (born on 2 July 1977 in Vitoria) is a Basque female freestyle wrestler.

She participated in Women's freestyle wrestling 72 kg at the 2008 Summer Olympics. In the 1/8 final she beat Oksana Vashchuk (Ukraine). In the quarter-final she lost to Stanka Zlateva (Bulgaria). In the repechage round, after beating Canadian Ohenewa Akuffo she lost to Agnieszka Wieszczek in the bronze medal match.

At the 2012 Summer Olympics, she won the bronze medal in Women's freestyle wrestling 72 kg. In the 1/8 final she beat Ana Betancur from Colombia, and Burmaa Ochirbat from Mongolia in quarter-final. She lost in the semi-final against Stanka Zlateva but beat Vasilisa Marzaliuk (Belarus) for the bronze medal.

Apart from her career in sport, Unda runs a sheep farm in the village of Olaeta in Aramaio producing Idiazabal cheese.

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