Takedown Report

Mallory Velte of the United States celebrates her World bronze medal at 62 kg tonight in Budapest. Her medal victory gave Team USA a record 11 Senior medals for the year. Photo by Robbert Wijtman.

With two more women’s freestyle medals on Thursday in Budapest, Hungary, USA Wrestling set a record for the most Senior-level World medals in a single year with 11 medals so far at the 2018 World Championships.
Today, Sarah Hildebrandt won a silver medal at 53 kg and Mallory Velte won a bronze medal at 62 kg, giving the USA four medals in the women’s freestyle competition.
At the beginning of the week, the U.S. men’s freestyle team won seven individual medals.
Of those 11 medals, four were gold medals, won by Adeline Gray in women’s wrestling at 76 kg (her fourth career World title), plus three World gold medals in men’s freestyle by athletes who won their first career World titles, Kyle Dake at 79 kg, David Taylor at 86 kg and J’den Cox at 92 kg.
The previous record was 10 medals, which was shared with the U.S. World Teams in 1997, 1989 and 1991.  Rest of the story at https://www.teamusa.org/USA-Wrestling/Features/2018/October/25/USA-Wrestling-sets-record-with-11th-Senior-World-medal?mc_cid=243db36f84&mc_eid=2ef7cbca4b