Women's wrestling
Tamyra Mensah-Stock
Tamyra Mensah-Stock won the Tokyo Olympic title at 68 kilograms and is a two-time world champion. She is the first Black woman to win an Olympic gold medal in wrestling. She came through Wayland Baptist. The joy in her wrestling was not a brand exercise. It was visible in the bouts, which is a harder thing to counterfeit.
The weight she won in Tokyo is the weight Amit Elor won in Paris, years later, as a different kind of champion. The division is large enough to hold both stories. We will not mash them into one moral.
If a number about her career is not in the line above, we have not confirmed it, and it is not on this page.
Career highlights
- Olympic gold, Tokyo 2020, 68 kg
- Two-time world champion
- First Black woman to win Olympic wrestling gold