Tamyra Mensah-Stock Becomes First Black Woman to Win Olympic Gold in Wrestling

Tamyra Mensah-Stock Becomes First Black Woman to Win Olympic Gold in Wrestling

E! News·2021-08-04 13:01

Tamyra Mensah-Stock's historic moment at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics was not lost on her or the wrestling community.

On Tuesday, August 3, the 28-year-old American athlete became the first Black woman in Olympics wrestling history to ever win gold when she defeated Nigeria's Blessing Oborududu in the women's 68-kilogram freestyle wrestling final, NBC News reported. She also became only the second American woman to achieve the feat, following Helen Maroulis' gold at the 2016 Rio Games.

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