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Aaron Brooks defeated reigning 86-kilogram gold medalist David Taylor in consecutive matches Saturday night at the U.S. Olympic wrestling trials, claiming a roster spot at the Paris Olympics.
[2] [3] Wrestling has been contested at every modern Summer Olympic Games, except Paris 1900. Mijaín López became the first and only athlete in modern Olympics history to win five consecutive gold medals in the same individual event after winning in the Greco-Roman wrestling 130 kg, [4] Japan has topped the medal table for the fourth time.
The 2024 United States Olympic Team Trials for wrestling were held at the Bryce Jordan Center of State College, Pennsylvania, on April 19–20, 2024. [1] This event determined the representative of the United States of America for the 2024 Summer Olympics at each Olympic weight class .
Blades’ surprising Olympic wrestling run ended Sunday with a 3-1 defeat to Japan’s Yuka Kagami, last year’s world champion, in the gold medal match of the women’s 76 kg freestyle ...
The United States became the only country other than Japan to win more than one Olympic gold since women’s wrestling was added to the Summer Games in 2004. Fittingly, the last Olympic match ...
Forcing an opponent's shoulders to the mat results in an instant victory by fall. [ 3 ] During the course of a match, if a wrestler builds a 10-point advantage over the opponent, the bout is stopped and the leader is declared as the winner by technical superiority .
To earn his trip to Paris, Brooks had to get by David Taylor, the reigning world and Olympic champion, in the best-of-3 finals at the U.S. Olympic Wrestling Trials in April. Brooks won the first ...
Forcing an opponent's shoulders to the mat results in an instant victory by fall. [ 3 ] During the course of a match, if a wrestler builds a 10-point advantage over the opponent, the bout is stopped and the leader is declared as the winner by technical superiority .