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Birth name | Anna Zhigalova | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Full name | Полякова Анна Сергеевна | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Nationality | Russia | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Russia Izhevsk, Udmurt Republic | 10 December 1981||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Years active | 2003- | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 186 cm (6 ft 1 in)[1] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 165 kg (364 lb)[2] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Sport | Sumo | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Anna Poliakova (maiden name Anna Zhigalova)[1][3][4] is a Russian amateur sumo wrestler. She has won gold medals in both the heavyweight and openweight categories in the 2009, 2013 and 2017 World Games.[1] She has also won seven golds at the Sumo World Championships. In 2018 she was nominated for the World Games Athlete of the Year award.[1]
She was born in Izhevsk, Udmurt Republic.[5]
She played volleyball from the age of six to twelve,[5] and handball between from thirteen to twenty-one.[3] She is a graduate from Udmurt State University.[5] She has experience working as a swimming instructor in kindergarten.[3] She began Sumo training at September 2003.[5]