Meet the US Women's Tokyo Olympic Freestyle Wrestling Team
Meet the 6 Badass Women Wrestlers Who Just Qualified For the Tokyo Summer Olympics
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Mensah-Stock won the 2019 World Wrestling Championships in the 68 kg weight class. The 28-year-old from Katy, TX, actually won the 2016 Olympic trials, but her weight class hadn't officially earned a quota spot in time (as teamusa.org explains, quotas are typically earned before the athlete representing that weight class is selected, but when Mensah-Stock tried to earn that Olympic quota spot for her weight class after 2016 trials, she fell short).
"I wanted to come back and prove to everybody and myself that I could become an Olympian and I did it. I'm so proud of myself," Mensah-Stock said. She added that there was "no pressure" this time around — she'd already qualified the 68 kg weight class for Tokyo back in 2019 at the world championship event. "I knew I had to represent the US at 68 kg in Tokyo." Watch her emotional interview after her trials match above.
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