The Olympians

The International Olympic Committee added women's wrestling to the program in 2002, and the first Games with women on the mat were Athens 2004, with four weight classes. The United States picked its first Olympic team in women's freestyle that May in Indianapolis: Patricia Miranda at 48 kg, Tela O'Donnell at 55 kg, Sara McMann at 63 kg, and Toccara Montgomery at 72 kg. Miranda won bronze, the first Olympic wrestling medal by an American woman, and McMann won silver, the first American woman to reach an Olympic final. Those two medals stood as the country's best Games until Tokyo.

The record by Games since then, from USA Wrestling's own reporting: Randi Miller won bronze at 63 kg in Beijing in 2008. Clarissa Chun won bronze at 48 kg in London in 2012. Helen Maroulis beat three-time Olympic champion Saori Yoshida of Japan in the Rio final in 2016 to win the first American gold. Tokyo, wrestled in 2021, produced four medals in one Games for the first time: gold for Tamyra Mensah-Stock at 68 kg, silver for Adeline Gray at 76 kg, and bronze for Maroulis at 57 kg and Sarah Hildebrandt at 50 kg. Paris 2024 produced four again: gold for Hildebrandt at 50 kg and Amit Elor at 68 kg, silver for Kennedy Blades at 76 kg, and a third bronze for Maroulis, which made her the first American woman with three Olympic wrestling medals.

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