Greda Terek gave Hungary its first-ever U23 World Championships gold medal in Women’s Wrestling with a stunning performance at 55kg in Las Vegas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Hungary has won four gold medals in U23 World Championships, all coming in Greco-Roman and the last coming in 2022. The four-year drought ended when Terek pinned Yuna Sawatani of Japan in the 55kg final.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
That was not the only exceptional match from Terek in Las Vegas, She won three of her four bouts via fall, including one in the semifinal against U20 world champion Everest Leydecker, handing the United States wrestler her first-ever international loss.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The final was off to a slow start with Terek being put on the activity clock in the first period. That gave Sawatani a 1-0 lead at the break. Sawatani tried a sweep single in the second period but Terek caught her in a cradle and after a one-minute battle, she got the pin to win the gold medal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“I\u2019ve been dreaming of this for a very long time,” Terek said. ” Finally winning the World Championships. I worked incredibly hard for it, so I never doubted myself for a single second.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Terek has previously reached the final of the U17 World Championships in 2022 but lost the final. She also has bronze medals from two U20 World Championships. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
“I arrived here with the mindset that I am the best and that no one can beat me,” she said. “The time difference and everything else didn’t matter. I just tried to shut everything out and focus solely on becoming a World Champion.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Terek wrestled four bouts in Las Vegas and won three of them via fall. She defeated Leydecker in the semifinals using the cradle as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“It wasn’t necessarily planned this way,” she said. “It just happened like that, but I\u2019m so happy that I ultimately succeeded. There was a tactic I had discussed with my coach beforehand. I managed to stick to it, but we also agreed that if the right opportunity arose, I would seize it.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
At 76kg, Kylie Welker of the USA defended her gold medal with a 50-second 10-0 technical superiority win over\u00a0Evelin Ujhelji of Serbia. She used a leg-lace to finish off the final.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The gold medal makes Welker the first U.S. wrestler to win the U23 world title three times. She scored a quick takedown and transitioned into a lace and turned the Serbian wrestler four times to finish the final.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
At 59kg, Alina Filipovych of Ukraine scored a takedown in the final five seconds to win 4-4 on criteria against Hiunai Hurbanova of Azerbaijan. Filipovych led 2-1 late in the second period when Hurbanova completed an attack to lead 3-2.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Ukraine challenged the call, asking only one point for Hurbanova but Filipovych did give up takedown and the challenge was lost, adding one more point to Hurbanova’s score.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Filipovych had 10 seconds to score at least a two-point takedown for the win and she did that with a leg-attack that Hurbanova failed to defend.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
U23 world champion at 53kg in 2025 Haruna Morikawa of Japan moved down to 50kg for the 2026 edition but still managed to win the gold medal after holding on for a 3-0 win over Aida Kerymova of Ukraine in the final.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Alina Shevchenko of Russia gave Russia a gold medal after she defeated Kseniya Tsiarenai of Belarus, 11-0, in the 68kg final.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
RESULTS<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n 50kg<\/strong> BRONZE: Morgan TURNER (USA) df. Ana ROTARU (ROU), 6-2 55kg<\/strong> BRONZE: Shugyla OMIRBEK (KAZ) df. Snizhana ONUFRIIEVA (UKR), 11-10 59kg<\/strong> BRONZE: Natsuki YAMAGUCHI (JPN) df. Camila AMARILLA (ARG), 10-2 68kg<\/strong> BRONZE: Laura GODINO (ITA) df. Karolina POK (HUN), 6-1 76kg<\/strong> BRONZE: Elmira YASIN (TUR) df. Mariia SILINA (RUS), 5-1 Semifinals<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n 53kg<\/strong> 57kg<\/strong> 62kg<\/strong> 65kg<\/strong> 72kg<\/strong> Greda Terek gave Hungary its first-ever U23 World Championships gold medal in Women’s Wrestling with a stunning performance<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16749,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[91],"class_list":["post-16748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-newsbeat","tag-wrestling"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t
GOLD: Haruna MORIKAWA (JPN) df. Aida KERYMOVA (UKR), 3-0<\/p>\n\n\n\n
BRONZE: Xinyu LIU (CHN) df. Milena DAVITADZE (RUS), 4-0<\/p>\n\n\n\n
GOLD: Gerda TEREK (HUN) df. Yuna SAWATANI (JPN), via fall<\/p>\n\n\n\n
BRONZE: Everest LEYDECKER (USA) df. Ulmeken ESENBAEVA (UZB), 11-0<\/p>\n\n\n\n
GOLD: Alina FILIPOVYCH (UKR) df. Hiunai HURBANOVA (AZE), 4-4<\/p>\n\n\n\n
BRONZE: KOMAL (IND) df. Viktoriia KHUSAINOVA (KAZ), 7-2<\/p>\n\n\n\n
GOLD: Alina SHEVCHENKO (RUS) df. Kseniya TSIARENIA (BLR), 11-0<\/p>\n\n\n\n
BRONZE: Ray HOSHINO (JPN) df. Gilbery GARCIA (VEN), via fall (4-2)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
GOLD: Kylie WELKER (USA) df. Evelin UJHELJI (SRB), 10-0<\/p>\n\n\n\n
BRONZE: Nadiia SOKOLOVSKA (UKR) df. Diksha MALIK (IND), via fall<\/p>\n\n\n\n
SF 1: Cristelle RODRIGUEZ (USA) df. Anastasiia POLSKA (UKR), 3-2
SF 2: Carla JAUME SOLER (ESP) df. Sevval CAYIR (TUR), via fall<\/p>\n\n\n\n
SF 1: Aryna DZEMCHANKA MARTYNAVA (BLR) df. Ichika ARAI (JPN), 7-0
SF 2: Tindra DALMYR (SWE) df. Bertha ROJAS (MEX), 3-1<\/p>\n\n\n\n
SF 1: Adaugo NWACHUKWU (USA) df. Melanie JIMENEZ (MEX), 3-1
SF 2: Iryna BONDAR (UKR) df. Eniko ELEKES (HUN), via fall<\/p>\n\n\n\n
SF 1: Ekaterina KOSHKINA (RUS) df. Narkhajid NYAMSUREN (MGL), via fall
SF 2: Yuqi RAO (CHN) df. Reese LARRAMENDY (USA), 11-0<\/p>\n\n\n\n
SF 1: Amruta PUJARI (IND) df. Wenjin QIU (CHN), via fall (10-8)
SF 2: Iryna ZABLOTSKA (UKR) df. Cassie CORBETT (CAN), 11-4<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"