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She is the third Olympic wrestling gold medalist (after Kurt Angle and Gable Steveson) and the first female Olympic wrestling gold medalist to sign with the company. On the taping of the July 5, 2024 edition of NXT Level Up , she made her in-ring debut under the name Tyra Mae Steele , in a losing effort against Wren Sinclair .
Scholastic wrestling, sometimes referred to as folkstyle wrestling and commonly known as simply wrestling, is a style of amateur wrestling at the high school and middle school levels in the United States. It has often been labeled the "toughest sport in the world" because of the physical conditioning, mental preparation, complexity, and intense ...
This is a list of female freestyle wrestlers, in alphabetical order. Alina Filipovych; Heaven Fitch [1] Anna Gomis; Kyoko Hamaguchi; Chiharu Icho; Kaori Icho; Lise Legrand; Gouzel Maniourova; Sara McMann; Irini Merleni; Randi Miller; Patricia Miranda; Tonya Verbeek; Saori Yoshida; Sarita Mor; Wang Xu
Clarissa Kyoko Mei Ling Chun (陳美玲) is the head coach of the Iowa Hawkeyes Women's wrestling program, formerly, the USA Wrestling assistant National coach and an American Olympic women's freestyle 48 kg (105.5 lbs) wrestler. Chun was the first female wrestler from Hawaii to win a medal at the Olympics.
In 2019, Fitch became the first female wrestler to place at the North Carolina wrestling state tournament, when she placed fourth in the 1A 106-pound weight class. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] [ 6 ] In 2020, she won the 1A 106-pound state championship, making her the first female wrestler in North Carolina history to win an individual wrestling state championship.
Carla Kristen Esparza [4] (born October 10, 1987) is an American former professional mixed martial artist and wrestler who most recently competed in the women's Strawweight division of the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC), in which she is the former two-time UFC Women's Strawweight Champion.
After she graduated from high school, she joined the wrestling club Sunkist Kids in Arizona and enrolled at Arizona State University. [2] Blades was the gold medalist at the 2021 U20 world championship and later won silver at the 2023 U23 world championship. [1] She also won gold at the 2023 Ibrahim Moustafa Tournament. [1]
Starkz began training in wrestling at age 13 in Jeffersonville, Indiana, [2] making her professional wrestling debut in October 2018. [3] [4] According to a 2023 story by local TV station WDRB, during her first weeks at Atherton High School in Louisville, Kentucky in 2019, "a caring teacher pulled her into the hall to ask questions about her parents and home life" because she showed up with ...