NUR-SULTAN, Kazakhstan — On the other side of the world Thursday night, Denver native Adeline Gray made history.
Gray won her U.S. record fifth Senior World Championships gold medal in the 76kg / 167.5 lbs category at the World Wrestling Championships in Kazakhstan.
Gray, 28, went to Bear Creek High School and spent many years as a U.S. Olympic Training Center resident athlete in Colorado Springs.
She wrestled well against two-time World bronze medalist, Hiroe Minagawa Suzuki of Japan, winning 4-2 in the gold-medal final to secure the record.
Gray became the second U.S. woman to win a World gold medal this year, joining Jacarra Winchester (Colorado Springs), who won the World title at 55 kg/121 lbs.
FULL RESULTS
WORLD WRESTLING CHAMPIONSHIPS
At Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan, September 18
Group 2 women’s freestyle results
57 kg/125.5 lbs.
Gold - Risako Kawai (Japan)
Silver - Ningning Rong (China)
Bronze - Odunayo Adekuoroye (Nigeria)
Bronze - Iryna Kurachkina (Belarus)
5th - Jowita Maria Wrzesien (Poland)
5th - Anastasia Nichita (Moldova)
7th - Simonyan (Russia)
8th - Giullia Rodriguez Penalber de Oliveira (Brazil)
9th - In Sun Jong (North Korea)
10th - Grace Bullen (Norway)
Gold – Kawai dec. Rong, 9-6
Bronze – Adekuoroye tech. fall Nichita, 10-0
Bronze – Kurachkina dec. Wrzesien, 4-0
59 kg/130 lbs. -
Gold - Linda Morais (Canada)
Silver - Liubov Ovcharova (Russia)
Bronze - Shoovdor Baatarjav (Mongolia)
Bronze - Xingru Pei (China)
5th - Pooja Dhanda (India)
5th - Anhelina Lysak (Ukraine)
7th - Tetiana Omelchenko (Azerbaijan)
8th - Yuzuka Inagaki (Japan)
9th - Sandra Paruszewski (Germany)
10th - Elif Yanik (Turkey)
Gold – Marais pin Ovcharova, 2:15
Bronze – Baatarjav pin Lysak, 3:38
Bronze – Pei dec. Dhanda, 5-3
65 kg/143 lbs.
Gold - Inna Trazhukova (Russia)
Silver - Iryna Koliadenko (Ukraine)
Bronze - Elis Manolova (Azerbaijan)
Bronze - Xiaoqian Wang (China)
5th - Forrest Molinari (USA)
5th - Yuliana Yaneva (Bulgaria)
7th - Aina Temirtassova (Kazakhstan)
8th - Kadriye Aksoy (Turkey)
9th - Malin Johanna Mattsson (Sweden)
10th - Bolortuya Khurelkhuu (Mongolia)
76 kg/167.5 lbs. –
Gold - Adeline Gray (USA)
Silver - Hiroe Minagawa Suzuki (Japan)
Bronze - Aline Rotter Focken (Germany)
Bronze - Epp Maee (Estonia)
5th - Qian Zhou (China)
5th - Elmira Syzdykova (Kazakhstan)
7th - Hui Tsz Chang (Chinese Taipei)
8th - Alla Belinksa (Ukraine)
9th - Erica Wiebe (Canada)
10th - Kamile Gaucaite (Lithuania)
Gold – Gray dec. Suzuki, 4-2
Bronze – Maee dec. Zhou, 6-4
Bronze – Rotter Focken dec. Syzdykova. 3-0
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