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| Nationality |  Tunisia | ||||||||||||||
| Born | 18 February 1987 | ||||||||||||||
| Height | 165 cm (5 ft 5 in) | ||||||||||||||
| Weight | 63 kg (139 lb) | ||||||||||||||
| Sport | |||||||||||||||
| Sport | Freestyle Wrestling | ||||||||||||||
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Hela Riabi (born 18 February 1987) is a Tunisian freestyle wrestler. [1] At the 2016 Summer Olympics she competed in the Women's freestyle -63 kg.
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Ivar Valentin Johansson was a Swedish wrestler who competed at the 1928, 1932 and 1936 Summer Olympics. In 1932 he won the gold medal in the Greco-Roman welterweight and freestyle middleweight events. Four years later he won the gold medal in the Greco-Roman middleweight competition.
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Joseph Émilienne Essombe Tiako is a Cameroonian wrestler. She competed in the women's freestyle 53 kg event at the 2016 Summer Olympics, in which she was eliminated in the round of 16 by Betzabeth Argüello.
Tamyra Mariama Mensah-Stock is an American professional wrestler currently signed to WWE. She had previously been an amateur wrestler, competing in women's freestyle wrestling, winning the gold medal at the Tokyo Olympics on August 3, 2021, and became the first black woman to win gold in women's freestyle wrestling.
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