World champion Justina Di Stasio and veteran Amar Dhesi will lead Canada’s wrestling group into the Olympic Video games in Paris.
Ana Godinez Gonzalez of Burnaby, B.C., Montreal’s Alex Moore, Linda Morais of Tecumseh, Ont., and Hannah Taylor of Summerside, P.E.I. be a part of Dhesi of Surrey, B.C., and Di Stasio of Coquitlam, B.C., on the group introduced Tuesday by the Canadian Olympic Committee.
Di Stasio captured a world title within the girls’s 72-kilogram division in 2018, in addition to Pan American Video games gold in 2019 and Commonwealth Video games gold in 2022.
The 31-year-old took a break from wrestling through the COVID-19 pandemic to begin her profession as a instructor, however returned to the game to make her Olympic debut in Paris.
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Dhesi, 28, is the one Canadian wrestler with earlier Olympic expertise after putting thirteenth in Tokyo.
“Looking for the phrases to precise the sensation of representing my nation, my neighborhood and my household at my second Olympic Video games has been robust, however I maintain coming again to the phrase grateful,” Dhesi mentioned in a press release.
“I’m grateful for the chance to be able as soon as once more to have an opportunity to convey again an Olympic medal. I fell brief in Tokyo however am ready to be brave and able to convey the combat.”
WATCH | Dhesi qualifies for Paris 2024 after efficiency in Mexico in March:
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A wrestler from Surrey, B.C. has booked his ticket to the Paris Olympic Video games this summer time after a dominating efficiency on the qualifiers in Mexico earlier this week. CBC’s Sohrab Sandhu caught up with medal hopeful Amar Dhesi as he prepares for the world stage.
Godinez Gonzalez gained the ladies’s 62-kilogram class on the 2021 world under-23 championship and Commonwealth Video games silver the next yr.
Moore competes within the males’s 62-kg division, Morais within the girls’s 68-kg class and Taylor in girls’s 57 kg.
Morais, 30, gained a world title within the girls’s 59 kg in 2019.
The athletes gained their respective weight lessons at December’s nationwide trials in Edmonton. Taylor, Godinez Gonzalez, Di Stasio, Moore and Dhesi then punched their tickets to Paris in a Pan American qualifier in Mexico in March.
Group Canada has gained 17 Olympic wrestling medals relationship again to London 1908. Three had been gold: Erica Wiebe (2016), Carol Huynh (2008) and Daniel Igali (2000).
“All 4 of our girls wrestlers have every gained medals on the world stage, together with three of them who’ve all held world titles,” mentioned Wrestling Canada high-performance director Chris Woodcroft.
“We sit up for our athletes displaying their mettle in an effort to realize some medals.”
Olympic wrestling shall be held Aug. 5 to 11 on the Champ-de-Mars Area.