A good group of US women are competing in Egypt at a ranking series event right now. It’s great seeing Kennedy Blades back in competition and winning after her scary injury. She looks rusty and out of shape but still has made the finals and beat some good competition doing it. The US has quite a few really good young women that are going to break through on the world stage sooner than later. What sucks is that the very best of the group all seem to be right around the same weight. We all know how great Amit Elor is but Blades was on her level as a prospect before her injury. Hopefully she can get back to that level. She is an absolutely incredible athlete and has the size, strength, and length to be an absolute hammer. Kylie Welker also deserves to be in this group. In 2021 she won junior worlds, was bronze at U23’s, and made the senior world team all while being in high school. She holds wins over Blades as well. The last women I’ll mention is Yelena Makoyed who is a tiny bit older than the other 3 and doesn’t have the same credentials but has come on lately to show she belongs. She is considered the number 1 p4p wrestler in college this year and won the Zagreb earlier this year. In that event she teched the 76kg 2022 world teamer Dymond Guilford. All 4 of these young women can win gold on the world stage with most of them already doing so. The problem is that they all compete at 72 or 76 kgs and for the Olympics there is no 72kg weight. Elor had her historic year winning juniors, U23’s, and seniors at 72kgs but for the Olympics she is going to have to cut a significant amount of weight to make 68kg or go up to 76. The US is going to have gold medal winning talent 3 deep sitting in the stands watching. It really sucks but the good thing is that these girls should push each other and the level of wrestling will only increase. One last thing…for any of these girls to even get the chance to compete at the Olympics they have to get by the most accomplished US women’s wrestler of all time in Adeline Gray. Whoever makes it out should definitely be ready to win gold on the biggest stage of them all
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Team USA's Results At The 2023 Ibrahim Moustafa Ranking Series Event - FloWrestling
Full results for USA Wrestling Team at the 2023 Ibrahim Moustafa Ranking Series Event.
