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WATCH: 10 freestyle finals from Pan-Am Championships

Wednesday, May 11, 2022 - 14:49 By Vinay Siwach

ACAPULCO, Mexico (May 11) -- The USA was defending champions in all 10 weight classes of freestyle wrestling at the Pan-American Championships which were held in Acapulco, Mexico.

They managed to repeat their golden performance in eight of the 10 weight categories while Canada won the remaining two gold medals at the tournament.

Capturing the top medal at all but 70kg and 125kg, the USA once again won the team title with 229 points. They were way clear of second-placer Canada which had 138 points. Puerto Rico finished third with 120 points.

Watch the 10 freestyle finals from the Pan-American Championships.

57kg: GOLD - Thomas GILMAN (USA) vs Darian CRUZ (PUR)

61kg: Round 1 - Daton FIX (USA) vs Joseph SILVA (PUR)

65kg: GOLD - Sebastian RIVERA (PUR) vs Joseph MC KENNA (USA)

65kg: GOLD - Vinicius DA SILVA JOAQUIM (BRA) vs Emmanuel OLAPADE (CAN)

74kg: GOLD - Kyle DAKE (USA) vs Franklin GOMEZ (PUR)

79kg: Round 1 - Jordan BURROUGHS (USA) vs Samuel BARMISH (CAN)

86kg: GOLD - Lazaro HERNANDEZ LUIS (CUB) vs Zahid VALENCIA (USA)

92kg: Round 1 - J'den COX (USA) vs Jeremy POIRIER (CAN)

97kg: GOLD - Kyle SNYDER (USA) vs Arturo SILOT (CUB)

125kg: GOLD - Nicholas GWIAZDOWSKI (USA) vs Amarveer DHESI (CAN)

UWW Playlist: Best of World and Olympic Champion Susaki

Monday, February 9, 2026 - 09:31 By United World Wrestling Press

JAPAN (February 9) -- Yui SUSAKI (JPN) is on path to greatness. The Japanese wrestler managed to showed up on the wrestling when won three back-to-back U17 world titles from 2014 to 2016.

While many would take time to jump to senior level, Susaki wrestled at the 2017 Paris World Championships aged 17 years and won gold medal at 48kg. She would seen beat Mariya STADNIK (AZE) at the Klippan Lady Open before winning gold at 2018 World Championships. Two U20 world titles further strengthened Susaki's resume as she remained unbeaten in international wrestling.

At the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, Susaki claimed her first Olympic gold, without giving up a point and etched her name in history.

WATCH THE BEST OF YUI SUSAKI (JPN) HERE

And it had to be Susaki to complete the Golden Grand Slam of wrestling. After winning U17, U20 and senior world titles, and Olympic gold, she needed to win the U23 world title to complete the Slam. In October of 2022 in Pontevedra, Spain, Susaki would go on to become the first wrestler in history to achieve the feat.

At the 2024 Paris Olympics, four-time world champion Susaki suffered her first international loss to Vinesh PHOGAT (IND), which remains her only loss in international career.