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| Country | Nigeria | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sport | Amateur wrestling | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Event | Freestyle | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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Bisola Makanjuola (born 29 August 1996) is a Nigerian freestyle wrestler. She won two silver and two gold medals in the African Championship between 2014 and 2020. [1] [2] [3]
Bisola first win at the African Championship was in 2014 in Tunis where she competed in the 55 kilo category and earned a silver medal. [4] In 2017, she participated at the same event but this time held in Marrakech, Morocco and also won a silver medal in the 60kg category. [5]
At the 2018 African Wrestling Championship held in Port Harcourt, Makanjuola defeated her opponent and came first in the 59kg winning the gold medal. [6]
The 2020 African Wrestling Championship competition at Algiers also ended with her victory as Makanjuola won the gold medal for the 59kg category. [7]
Geeta Phogat is a freestyle wrestler who won India's first-ever gold medal in wrestling at the Commonwealth Games in 2010. She is also the first Indian female wrestler to have qualified for the Olympic Games.
Narsingh Pancham Yadav is an Indian wrestler. At the 2010 Commonwealth Games, he won the gold medal in the men's freestyle 74 kg category.
Babita Kumari Phogat is a former Indian professional wrestler and a politician from the state of Haryana. She is a multiple Commonwealth Games medalist, winning the gold medal in 2014 Commonwealth Games, and silver medals at 2010 Commonwealth Games and 2018 Commonwealth Games. When she won the 2014 Commonwealth gold medal, she became the second Indian women wrestler to win a Commonwealth gold after Geeta Phogat, who had won it in 2010.
Amit Kumar Dahiya is an Indian wrestler who represented India at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, United Kingdom. He was the youngest wrestler ever to represent India at the Olympics while also being the youngest athlete of the 2012 Indian Olympic delegation.
Natalia Vitalyevna Vorobieva is a Russian retired wrestler, who has won the Olympic, World and European titles.
Navjot Kaur is an Indian wrestler. She represented India in the women's freestyle 67 kg category at the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow in which she won the bronze medal. She became the first Indian woman wrestler to win an Asian Championship gold medal.
Sandeep Tomar is an Indian male wrestler who competes in the men's freestyle 55 kg category.
Rahul Balasaheb Aware is an Indian male freestyle wrestler who competes in the men's freestyle 57 kg category. He won the Gold medal in the 57 kg division at the 2018 Commonwealth Games. He was a student of the late Olympian Harishchandra Birajdar. At present, he is being trained by his guru and father in law Kaka Pawar. Currently he is employed in the Maharashtra Police as a deputy superintendent of police. He is fondly called "Nana" by his friends and family.
Tega Tosin Richard is a Nigerian female wrestler. She competed at the 2010 Commonwealth Games and clinched bronze medal in the women's 59kg freestyle event. She also won a silver medal in the women's 63kg freestyle event at the 2010 African Wrestling Championships.
Divya Kakran is a freestyle wrestler from India. Divya has won 60 medals, including 17 gold medals in the Delhi State Championship, and has won the Bharat Kesari title eight times. She has been vocal about being disappointed by the lack of support from the government of Delhi in her pursuit for a medal at the Asian Games in 2018, despite writing to the government about her poor financial background. Divya is presently employed with the Indian Railways as senior ticket examiner.
Fatih Erdin is a Turkish freestyle wrestler competing in the 86 kg division. He is a member of İstanbul Büyükşehir Belediyesi S.K. He qualified to the final game of 2018 World Wrestling Championships which was held in Budapest, Hungary on 20 and 21 October 2018 and won the silver medal.
Abuyazid Ruslanovich Mantsigov is a Russian sport wrestler of Chechen descent, who competes in the men's Greco Roman category and a current world champion in the men's 72 kg Greco Roman event. He claimed gold medal in the men's 72 kg event during the 2019 World Wrestling Championships.
Meirambek Ainagulov is a Kazakhstani sport wrestler who competes in the men's Greco Roman category. He has claimed two medals at the World Wrestling Championships, silver medal in the men's 59 kg event in 2017 and bronze medal in the men's 60 kg event. He was qualified to represent Kazakhstan at the 2020 Summer Olympics following his medal success at the 2019 World Wrestling Championships.
Pak Yong-mi is a North Korean sport wrestler who competes in the women's freestyle category and a current world champion in the women's 53kg Freestyle event. She won the gold medal in the women's 53 kg event during the 2019 World Wrestling Championships. She also qualified to represent North Korea at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan following the gold medal success at the 2019 World Wrestling Championships. However, in June 2021, North Korea withdrew from the 2020 Summer Olympics which meant that Luisa Valverde of Ecuador would compete instead.
Nanami Irie is a Japanese wrestler who competes in the women's freestyle category. She claimed silver medal in the women's 55 kg event during the 2019 World Wrestling Championships.
Hiroe Minagawa née Suzuki is a Japanese sport wrestler who competes in the women's freestyle category. She claimed silver medal in the women's 76 kg event during the 2019 World Wrestling Championships and also qualified to represent Japan at the 2020 Summer Olympics which will be held in Japan.
Beka Lomtadze is a Georgian freestyle wrestler competing in the 61 kg division. Lomtadze began wrestling at the age of 13 in his home country of Georgia. He won gold medal in 2019 world championships in Nur-Sultan and silver 2016 world championships in Budapest.
Winnie Gofit also known as Winifred Gofit is a Nigerian freestyle wrestler. She is a gold medalist of the African Championships in 2017 and 2018. She is also a silver medallist of Commonwealth Wrestling Championship.
Sammy Oziti is a Nigerian freestyle wrestler. She won two medals at the All-African Games between 2003 and 2007. She obtained six medals in the African Championship between 2006 and 2012. She also won two silver medals at the Commonwealth Wrestling Championship in 2005 and 2013.
Rckaela Maree Ramos Aquino is a Guamanian freestyle wrestler. In the 57 kg category, Aquino won gold at the 2018 Micronesian Games. She won gold at the Oceanian Championships in 2018 and 2019 as well as silver in 2017. She qualified for the women's freestyle 53 kg into the Olympic competition, by progressing to the top two finals at the 2021 African & Oceania Qualification Tournament in Hammamet, Tunisia. She was eliminated in her first match in the women's 53 kg event.
