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5 OLYMPIC AND 11 WORLD CHAMPIONS HIGHLIGHT LOADED FIELD FOR FINAL X, THE 2023 BEAT THE STREETS ANNUAL BENEFIT

The field is finalized for Final X, presented by Tezos, on June 10 at Prudential Center in Newark, New Jersey.

Athletes qualified for Final X by winning a 2022 World medal or winning the 2023 U.S. Open or 2023 World Team Trials Challenge Tournament. The top two athletes in each weight class, based upon the qualifying process, have emerged to compete in Final X.

Final X will determine the 2023 U.S. Senior World Team in all three Olympic disciplines: men’s and women’s freestyle and Greco-Roman. There will be 30 weight classes contested, 10 in each Olympic discipline. The winner of each Final X best-of-three championship series will represent the United States at the 2023 Senior World Championships in Belgrade, Serbia.
The first match of the best-of-three series will be during the first session (2-4:30 p.m.). The second match and third match, if necessary, will be in the second session (6-9 p.m.).

The Final X field features five Olympic gold medalists: 2012 champion Jordan Burroughs (74 kg men’s freestyle), 2016 champions Helen Maroulis (57 kg women’s freestyle) and Kyle Snyder (97 kg men’s freestyle) and 2020 champions Gable Steveson (125 kg men’s freestyle) and David Taylor (86 kg men’s freestyle).

The field includes 11 World champions who have won a combined 30 World titles: Burroughs (6x), Adeline Gray (x6, 76 kg women’s freestyle), Kyle Dake (x4, 74 kg men’s freestyle), Maroulis and Snyder (3x) and Taylor and J’den Cox at 92 kg men’s freestyle (2x). Thomas Gilman (57 kg men’s freestyle), Dominique Parrish (53 kg women’s freestyle), Jacarra Winchester (55 kg women’s freestyle) and Amit Elor (72 kg women’s freestyle) each won one.

It also features 10 Olympic medalists who have won 12 Olympic medals: Synder (2x, 2016 gold and 2020 silver), Maroulis (2x, 2016 gold, 2020 bronze), Burroughs (2012 gold), Steveson (2020 gold), Taylor (2020 gold), Gray (2020 silver), Cox (2016 bronze), plus 2020 bronze medalists Dake, Gilman and Sarah Hildebrandt (50 kg women’s freestyle).

There will be 16 World medalists who have won a combined 53 World medals: Burroughs (9x); Gray (8x); Maroulis and Snyder (6x); Cox (x5); Dake (4x); Gilman, Hildebrandt and Taylor (3x), two-time silver medalist Kayla Miracle (62 kg women’s freestyle), two-time bronze medalist Mallory Velte (65 kg women’s freestyle), … rest of story at Teamusa.org/USA-Wrestling/Features/2023/May/23/FInal-X-lineup-completed

June 8, 2023 - Posted by The TakeDown Report | Uncategorized