Alena Filipava

{{Short description|Belarusian wrestler (born 1987)}}

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| event = Freestyle

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| coach = Aleh Yakaulevich Raikhlin

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{{MedalSport | Women's freestyle wrestling}}

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Alena Piatrouna Filipava ({{langx|be|Алена Пятроўна Філіпава}}; born October 10, 1987, in Minsk) is an amateur Belarusian freestyle wrestler, who played for the women's featherweight category.{{cite sports-reference|title = Alena Filipava|url = https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/fi/yelena-filipova-1.html|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20181117104936/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/fi/yelena-filipova-1.html|url-status = dead|archive-date = 17 November 2018|access-date = 9 December 2012}}

She won the bronze medal at the 2009 World Wrestling Championships in Herning, Denmark, against Tatiana Padilla of the United States, in addition to her silver at the European Championships in Vilnius, Lithuania.{{cite news|title=Alena Filipava wins bronze at World Wrestling Championships in Denmark |url=http://news.belta.by/en/news/sport?id=425299 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130115045214/http://news.belta.by/en/news/sport?id=425299 |url-status=dead |archive-date=15 January 2013 |publisher=Belarusian Telegraph Agency |date=25 September 2009 |accessdate=9 December 2012 }}

Filipava made her official debut at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, where she competed for the 55 kg class in freestyle wrestling, an event which was imminently dominated by world champion Saori Yoshida from Japan. She lost the second preliminary match to Kazakhstan's Olga Smirnova, with a two-set technical score (3–2, 0–3, 2–4), and a classification score of 1–3, finishing only in thirteenth place.{{cite news|title=Women's Freestyle 55kg (121 lbs) Round of 16 Final|url=http://www.2008.nbcolympics.com/wrestling/resultsandschedules/rsc=WRW255406/index.html|publisher=NBC Olympics|accessdate=9 December 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120821012249/http://www.2008.nbcolympics.com/wrestling/resultsandschedules/rsc=WRW255406/index.html|archive-date=21 August 2012|url-status=dead}}