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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)

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Senior Pan-Am Championships Moved to Acapulco, Mexico

Tuesday, February 15, 2022 - 10:03 By United World Wrestling Press

ACAPULCO, Mexico (February 15) -- The Senior Pan-American Championships 2022 will now be held in Acapulco, Mexico, instead of Santiago, Chile.

Despite the efforts of United World Wrestling and the Chilean Wrestling Federation, the event could not be held as originally scheduled in Santiago from May 5-8, 2022. The requirement decided by the Chilean Ministry of Health did not guarantee the participation of all countries.

Consequently, UWW was forced to move the competition to Acapulco. UWW would like to thank the Chilean Wrestling Federation for all the efforts put into organizing this event.

The Championships will be held according to the original program decided with seven weights of Greco-Roman beginning the event on May 5. The second day will see three remaining weights of Greco-Roman and four weights of women's wrestling. The remaining six weights of women's wrestling and two weights classes of freestyle wrestling will compete on Mat 7. Finally, the tournament will be closed out by the remaining eight freestyle weights on Sunday, May 8.

The deadline for the final entries is set for April 5, 2022.

Mexico has been a constant on the UWW calendar. They hosted the U17 Pan-Am Championships in 2019, U17 and U20 Pan-Am Championships in 2021, and are scheduled to host the U20 Pan-Am Championships this year apart from the reassigned senior Pan-Ams.