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USA Women’s Freestyle Preview at 2024 Olympics

The following is a preview of all six Americans who will represent the United States in the 2024 Olympics in Paris, France, at the Champ de Mars Arena. This also includes what dates each will compete as each weight will last two days: through semifinals on first day and medal matches on second day.

Sarah Hildebrandt • 50k/110 pounds (Aug. 6-7)
Age: 30 (born Sept. 23, 1993), Granger, Ind., New York AC

Sarah Hildebrandt
Other: Two-time WCWA champ and four-time finalist for King University; defeated Audrey Jimenez (SKWC) at Olympic Trials.
Olympic/Worlds Experience: Went 3-1 at 50k and earned a bronze medal at the 2021 Tokyo Games; has competed in six World Championships, going 13-8. Four-time World medalist: silver in both 2018 (53k) and 2021 (50k) and bronze in both 2022 (50k) and 2023 (50k); also finished 10th in 2016 (55k) and ninth in 2019 (53k). All-time record of 16-9. Also competed in the 2012 and ’13 Junior Worlds.
2021 USA result at this weight: Hildebrandt won her first match, 12-1, before losing 10-7 to China’s Yanan Sun. She came back to dominate her repechage, 12-2, and her bronze-medal match over Evin Yavuz (Turkey), 11-0.
All-time USA medalists at this weight: bronze by Patricia Miranda (2004), Clarissa Chun (2012) and Sarah Hildebrandt (2021).
Top Competition: Yui Susaki (Japan), the 2021 gold medalist, remains the favorite after she added World titles in 2022 and 2023 to go along with World titles in 2017 and 2018; Dolgarjavyn Otgonjargal (Mongolia), a two-time World silver medalist, fell to Susaki in both 2022 and ’23 (when she beat Hildebrandt, 7-5); Feng Zigi (China), a 2023 World bronze medalist; Mariya Stadnik (Azerbaijan), the 36-year-old is competing in her fifth Olympics after earning silver medals in 2012 and 2016, to go with bronze medals in 2008 and 2021.

Dominique Parrish • 53k/116.5 pounds (Aug. 7-8)
Age: 27 (born Nov. 5, 1996), Scotts Valley, Calif., Beaver Dam RTC/Sunkist Kids WC

Dominique Parrish
Other: Two-time WCWA champ (2018-19) from Simon Fraser University; two-time California state champ (2014-15) from Scotts Valley High; defeated Haley Augello at Olympic Trials.
Olympic/Worlds Experience: First Olympics; competed in the last two Worlds, winning gold in 2022. Overall record of 4-1. Also competed on three U23 World Teams (2017-19), finishing as high as fifth in 2018.
2021 USA result at this weight: Jacarra Winchester went 2-2 and finished fifth in Tokyo.
All-time USA medalists at this weight: gold by Helen Maroulis in 2016.
Top Competition: Akari Fujinami (Japan) won World championships in 2021 and 2023 and earned the Olympic spot with a win over 2021 Olympic champ Mayu Shidochi in June of 2023. A foot injury kept her out of 2022 Worlds, won by Parrish; Antim Panghal (India) earned a bronze medal in 2023 after beating Parrish; Pang Qianyu (China), 2021 Olympic silver medalist.

Helen Maroulis • 57k/125.5 pounds (Aug. 8-9)

Helen Maroulis
Age: 32 (born Sept. 19, 1991), Rockville, Md., Sunkist Kids WC
Other:  Became first female wrestler to place in Maryland boys state tournament for Magruder High before attending Marquette High at Marquette, Mich. Wrestled in college at Northern Michigan, Missouri Valley and Simon Fraser University in Canada; defeated Jacarra Winchester at Olympic Trials. Olympic/Worlds Experience: Career record of 39-10. Became first American woman to win an Olympic gold medal over Japan’s legend Saori Yoshida in 2016 before earning a bronze medal in the 2021 Tokyo Games. 8-1 Olympic record. Competed in 10 World Championships, claiming seven medals (three gold in 2015, ’17 and ’21, two silver in 2012 and ’22 and two bronze in 2014 and ’23). Also wrestled in 2011 (fifth), 2013 (7^th) and 2018 Worlds. Career Worlds record of 31-9.
2021 USA result at this weight: Maroulis won two straight matches before losing 2-1 to Japan’s eventual gold medalist Risako Kinjo in the semis. She came back to dominate Mongolia’s Khongorzul Boldsaikhan, 11-0, in the bronze-medal match.
All-time USA medalists at this weight: bronze by Helen Maroulis in 2021.
Top Competition: Tsugumi Sakurai (Japan) has won the last three … more at … https://www.win-magazine.com/2024/08/03/usa-womens-freestyle-preview-at-2024-olympics/

August 14, 2024 - Posted by The TakeDown Report | Uncategorized