Olga Butkevych

Olga Butkevych, who later took the name Olga McGlinchey, is a Ukrainian-British freestyle wrestler born on 3 January 1986 in Zaporizhia. She began wrestling at fourteen and represented Ukraine as a junior, finishing fifth at the 2005 World Junior Championships and first at the 2006 European Junior Championships. She moved to Britain in 2007 as a sparring partner for the national team and began competing for Great Britain. In 2012 she was granted British citizenship in time to compete at the London Olympics, where she was Britain's only wrestler and placed eleventh in the 55 kilogram class. In September 2012 she became the first British wrestler to win a World Championships medal, a bronze, and she also holds European bronze medals from 2011 and 2014.