Paliha

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| birth_place = Wusu, Tacheng Prefecture, Xinjiang, China

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Paliha Paliha (born 6 June 1996 in Xinjiang) is a Chinese freestyle wrestler. She won one of the bronze medals in the women's 72 kg event at the 2019 World Wrestling Championships held in Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan.{{Cite web|url=https://unitedworldwrestling.org/sites/default/files/2019-09/nur-sultan_kz_final-book_1.pdf|title=2019 World Wrestling Championships Results|website=United World Wrestling|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200412151211/https://unitedworldwrestling.org/sites/default/files/2019-09/nur-sultan_kz_final-book_1.pdf|archive-date=12 April 2020|access-date=12 April 2020}}

Career

Paliha is from Wusu, Xinjiang province and is of Uyghur ethnicity. She started wrestling when she was 14 upon encouragement of her grandfather.{{Cite web |title=新疆维族姑娘帕丽哈场上摔人　场下跳舞_国家体育总局 |url=https://www.sport.gov.cn/n20001280/n20745751/n20767274/c21918762/content.html |access-date=2023-10-11 |website=www.sport.gov.cn}}

She won the gold medal in the women's 75 kg event at the Asian Wrestling Championships both in 2017 and in 2019.{{cite web|url=https://unitedworldwrestling.org/sites/default/files/media/document/event/results/final-book-complete.pdf|title=2017 Asian Wrestling Championships Results|work=United World Wrestling|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181125162841/https://unitedworldwrestling.org/sites/default/files/media/document/event/results/final-book-complete.pdf|archive-date=25 November 2018}}{{cite web|url=https://unitedworldwrestling.org/sites/default/files/2019-04/results_04_xian.pdf|title=2019 Asian Wrestling Championships Results|work=United World Wrestling|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200518232029/https://unitedworldwrestling.org/sites/default/files/2019-04/results_04_xian.pdf|archive-date=18 May 2020}} In 2017, she also won the gold medal in the 75 kg event at the Asian Indoor and Martial Arts Games held in Ashgabat, Turkmenistan.{{Cite web|url=http://ashgabat2017.com/atos/ashgabat17/resAG2017/pdf/AG2017/WR/AG2017_WR_AA1_WR0000000.pdf|title=Wrestling Results book|website=2017 Asian Indoor and Martial Arts Games|url-status=live|access-date=26 February 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200417024641/http://ashgabat2017.com/atos/ashgabat17/resAG2017/pdf/AG2017/WR/AG2017_WR_AA1_WR0000000.pdf|archive-date=17 April 2020}} She also competed in the women's freestyle 75 kg event at the 2017 World Wrestling Championships where she was eliminated in the semifinals by Vasilisa Marzaliuk.{{Cite web|url=https://unitedworldwrestling.org/sites/default/files/media/document/event/results/final-book_1.pdf|title=2017 World Wrestling Championships|website=United World Wrestling|url-status=live|access-date=13 January 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190501222916/https://unitedworldwrestling.org/sites/default/files/media/document/event/results/final-book_1.pdf|archive-date=1 May 2019}}

She also won the gold medal in the women's 76 kg event at the 2018 World U23 Wrestling Championship held in Bucharest, Romania and at the 2019 World U23 Wrestling Championship held in Budapest, Hungary.{{Cite news|last=Morgan|first=Liam|url=https://www.insidethegames.biz/articles/1086526/japan-win-three-gold-medals-u23-worlds|title=Japan win three gold medals in women's freestyle at UWW Under-23 World Championships|date=31 October 2019|work=InsideTheGames.biz|access-date=11 April 2020}}{{Cite web|title=2019 World U23 Wrestling Championship|url=https://unitedworldwrestling.org/sites/default/files/2019-11/u23_senior_world_championships_final-book.pdf|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191228051956/https://unitedworldwrestling.org/sites/default/files/2019-11/u23_senior_world_championships_final-book.pdf|archive-date=28 December 2019|access-date=8 August 2020|website=United World Wrestling}}

Achievements

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rowspan=2 \| 2017 \|Asian Championships \|New Delhi, India \|align="center" bgcolor="gold" \| 1st \|Freestyle 75 kg \|
Asian Indoor and Martial Arts Games \|Ashgabat, Turkmenistan \|align="center" bgcolor="gold" \| 1st \|Freestyle 75 kg \|
rowspan=2 \| 2019 \|Asian Championships \|Xi'an, China \|align="center" bgcolor="gold" \| 1st \|Freestyle 75 kg \|
World Championships \|Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan \|align="center" bgcolor="cc9966" \| 3rd \|Freestyle 72 kg \|

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rowspan=2 | 2017

|Asian Championships

|New Delhi, India

|align="center" bgcolor="gold" | 1st

|Freestyle 75 kg

Asian Indoor and Martial Arts Games

|Ashgabat, Turkmenistan

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|Freestyle 75 kg

rowspan=2 | 2019

|Asian Championships