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Amateur wrestling is a variant of wrestling practiced at Olympic, collegiate, scholastic, and other levels. There are two international wrestling styles performed at the Olympic Games, freestyle and Greco-Roman, both of which are governed by the United World Wrestling (UWW). At the middle school and high school levels, wrestlers compete in ...
World Games. 2022 Birmingham. Openweight. Hiyori Kon (Japanese: 今 日和) is a Japanese amateur sumo wrestler, who is known for advocating for equal rights for women to compete professionally in Japan. She has been included in the BBC 's list of 100 inspiring and influential women from around the world for 2019. [1][2]
25 total inductees. 20 Individual inductees. 2 group inductee (4 wrestlers) 2 promotion inductees. Website. Women's Wrestling Hall of Fame. The Women's Wrestling Hall of Fame (WWHOF) is a hall of fame which honors women who have performed in both women's professional wrestling and women's amateur wrestling.
Sarah Hildebrandt. Sarah Ann Hildebrandt (/ ˈhɪldəbrænt / HIL-də-brant; born September 23, 1993) [1][2] is an American freestyle wrestler. She won the gold medal in the women's 50 kg event at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris, France, and a bronze at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan. [3] Hildebrandt is a four-time medalist at the ...
Women's sumo (Japanese: 女相撲, Hepburn: onna-zumō) is a form of sumo played by women. Professional sumo traditionally forbids women from competition and ceremonies. Women are not allowed to enter or touch the sumo wrestling ring . [1] Despite this, women sumo wrestlers have existed through history and exist in the present day on an amateur ...
Tricia Saunders (born as Patricia McNaughton; February 21, 1966) [1] is an American amateur wrestler and pioneer the sport of women's freestyle wrestling. [2] During her freestyle wrestling career, she won five FILA Wrestling World Championships medals, including four gold and one silver, never lost to an American opponent, and won eleven U.S. national titles.
World Championships. 2021 Oslo. 55 kg. Pan American Games. 2019 Lima. 57 kg. Jenna Rose Burkert (born May 9, 1993) is a retired [1] American freestyle wrestler and currently an amateur wrestling coach. [2] She won one of the bronze medals in the women's 55 kg event at the 2021 World Wrestling Championships held in Oslo, Norway.
1960s – 1970s. Kaoru "Dump" Matsumoto, one of Japan's leading pro wrestlers in the 1980s. All Japan Women's Pro-Wrestling (est. 1968) was the dominant joshi puro organization from the 1970s to the 1990s. AJW's first major star was Mach Fumiake in 1974, followed in 1975 by Jackie Sato and Maki Ueda (the "Beauty Pair").