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She later switched to wrestling at age seven, joining a small club in the area. [2] As there were not many girls she could wrestle against, she often trained against boys. [2] She won several championships competing against boys as a youth wrestler, including becoming the first female to win the IKWF Illinois state title, in 2016. [1] [2] [3] [4]
And she became the youngest U.S. wrestler, male or female, to ever win an Olympic gold medal. 20-YEAR-OLD AMIT ELOR IS A WORLD CHAMPION. 🇺🇸 She wins GOLD in women's freestyle 68kg wrestling!
Women's wrestling made it's Olympic debut in 2004, but the U.S. didn't earn its first gold until Helen Maroulis won at 53 kg in 2016. Tamyra Mensah-Stock followed by winning 68 kg at Tokyo 2020.
[20] [21] She became the first female African-American and the first Black wrestler to win Olympic gold, [22] [23] and only the second female American to win gold, after Helen Maroulis in 2016. [24] Two months after the Olympics, she won one of the bronze medals in the women's 68 kg event at the 2021 World Wrestling Championships in Oslo, Norway.
The World Championships for women's freestyle wrestling first began in 1987. Women's freestyle wrestling at the Olympics first began in 2004. The World Championships takes place during non Olympic years. At the World Championships team scoring is kept, while no official team statistics are kept at the Olympics.
United State's Amit Elor celebrates after defeating North Korea's Sol Gum Pak during their women's freestyle 68kg wrestling semifinal match, at Champ-de-Mars Arena, during the 2024 Summer Olympics ...
Maroulis beat Japan's Saori Yoshida 4–1 to win a gold medal at the 2016 Rio Olympics. This was the first Olympic gold medal for the United States in a women's wrestling event. This was the first Olympic gold medal for the United States in a women's wrestling event.
Yuka Kagami (born 14 September 2001) is a Japanese freestyle wrestler.She won the gold medal in the women's 76 kg event at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris, France. In 2023, she won the gold medal in her event at the World Wrestling Championships held in Belgrade, Serbia.