Texan Tamyra Mensah-Stock will again wrestle for gold at the World Wrestling Championships in Belgrade, Serbia, on Thursday. Last year, Mensah-Stock, who wrestles in the 68 kg weight division (around 149.9 lbs), became the first African American woman to win a gold medal in wrestling at the Olympics. Not long...
Tamyra Mensah-Stock, second from right, became the first African American woman to win an Olympic gold medal last year.Texan Tamyra Mensah-Stock will again wrestle for gold at the World Wrestling Championships in Belgrade, Serbia, on Thursday.first African American woman to win a gold medal in wrestling
While still in school, Mensah-Stock won two state championships for Morton Ranch High School in Katy, not far from Houston. She went on to attend Wayland Baptist University in Plainview, where she won the Women's Collegiate Wrestling Association championship tournament in 2014 and 2017.with a 10-0 semifinal victory over Moldova’s Irina Ringaci, the 2021 world champion at 65 kg .
In an interview with the Austin-based FloWrestling sports outlet after her semifinal victory Wednesday, Mensah-Stock said she was"feeling confident" about her finals match.
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