Natalia Golts

{{short description|Russian freestyle wrestler}}

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| name = Natalia Golts

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| fullname = Nataliya Yuryevna Golts

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| birth_place = Monchegorsk, Murmansk Oblast,
Russian SFSR

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| weight = {{convert|55|kg|lb|0|abbr=on}}

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| sport = Wrestling

| event = Freestyle

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| club = Russian Army Sports Club

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| coach = Omar Murtasaliev

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{{MedalSport | Women's freestyle wrestling}}

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{{MedalCompetition|World Championships}}

{{MedalSilver|2008 Tokyo|59 kg}}

{{MedalBronze|2002 Chalcis|51 kg}}

{{MedalBronze|2003 New York|55 kg}}

{{MedalBronze|2005 Budapest|55 kg}}

{{MedalBronze|2007 Baku|55 kg}}

{{MedalBronze| Tashkent 2014|60 kg}}

{{MedalCompetition|European Championships}}

{{MedalGold|2003 Riga|55 kg}}

{{MedalGold|2005 Varna|55 kg}}

{{MedalGold|2006 Moscow|55 kg}}

{{MedalGold|2007 Sofia|55 kg}}

{{MedalGold|2008 Tampere|55 kg}}

{{MedalSilver|2010 Baku|55 kg}}

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Nataliya Yuryevna Golts (also Natalia Golts, {{langx|ru|Наталья Юрьевна Гольц}}; born August 22, 1985, in Monchegorsk, Murmansk Oblast) is an amateur Russian freestyle wrestler, who played for the women's lightweight category.{{cite sports-reference|title = Nataliya Golts|url = https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/go/nataliya-golts-1.html|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20200417213955/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/go/nataliya-golts-1.html|url-status = dead|archive-date = 17 April 2020|access-date = 3 January 2013}} Since 2002, Golts had won a total of five medals (one silver and four bronze) for the 51, 55 and 59 kg classes at the World Wrestling Championships.{{cite news|last=Abbott|first=Gary|title=2008 Olympic Games preview at 55 kg/121 lbs. in women's freestyle wrestling|url=http://www.themat.com/section.php?section_id=3&page=showarticle&ArticleID=19203|work=USA Wrestling|publisher=The Mat|date=23 July 2008|access-date=3 January 2013}}{{cite news|title=2009 World Championships preview at 55 kg/121 lbs. in women's freestyle wrestling|url=http://www.themat.com/specialevents/2009/worlds/default.php?page=showarticle&ArticleID=20801|publisher=The Mat|access-date=3 January 2013}} She is also a five-time European wrestling champion (2003, 2005–2008), a silver medalist at the 2010 European Wrestling Championships in Baku, Azerbaijan, and a member of Russian Army Sports Club in Moscow, under her personal coach Omar Murtasaliev.{{cite news|last=Abbott|first=Gary|title=2010 World Championships preview at 55 kg/121 lbs. in women's freestyle wrestling|url=http://www.themat.com/specialevents/2009/worlds/default.php?page=showarticle&ArticleID=20801|publisher=The Mat|access-date=3 January 2013}}

Golts represented Russia at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, where she competed for the women's 55 kg class. She defeated Azerbaijan's Yelena Komarova in the preliminary round of sixteen, before losing out the quarterfinal match to Japanese wrestler and defending Olympic champion Saori Yoshida, who was able to score six points in two straight periods, leaving Golts with a single point.{{cite web|title=Women's Freestyle 55kg (121 lbs) Quarterfinal Official|url=http://www.2008.nbcolympics.com/wrestling/resultsandschedules/rsc=WRW255302/index.html|publisher=NBC Olympics|access-date=3 January 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120821014335/http://www.2008.nbcolympics.com/wrestling/resultsandschedules/rsc=WRW255302/index.html|archive-date=21 August 2012|url-status=dead}}{{cite news|title=Yoshida defends wrestling gold in Beijing|url=http://www.japantimes.co.jp/text/so20080817a1.html|publisher=Japan Times Online|date=17 August 2008|access-date=3 January 2013}} Because her opponent advanced further into the final match, Golts offered another shot for the bronze medal by entering the repechage bouts. Unfortunately, she was defeated in the first round by Sweden's Ida-Theres Nerell, with a three-set technical score (1–0, 0–3, 1–0), and a classification point score of 1–3.{{cite web|title=Women's Freestyle 55kg (121 lbs) Repechage Round 2 Official|url=http://www.2008.nbcolympics.com/wrestling/resultsandschedules/rsc=WRW255351/index.html|publisher=NBC Olympics|access-date=3 January 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120821011804/http://www.2008.nbcolympics.com/wrestling/resultsandschedules/rsc=WRW255351/index.html|archive-date=21 August 2012|url-status=dead}}