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Olympics: Tamyra Mensah-Stock 1st Black US woman to win gold in freestyle wrestling
CHIBA, Japan - As Tamyra Mensah-Stock celebrated winning her Olympic gold medal, she hoped her victory would encourage Black girls in the United States to consider wrestling.When she defeated Nigeria’s Blessing Oborududu 4-1 in the women’s 68-kilogram freestyle wrestling final on Tuesday, she became the first American Black woman to win Olympic gold in wrestling and the second American woman overall."These young women are going to see themselves in a number of ways and they’re going to look up there and go, I can do that," she said.