Pan-American champions Forrest Molinari (left), Thomas Gilman (center), and Sam Jones (Photos/Tony Rotundo; WrestlersAreWarriors.com)Over the weekend, many of our top Senior-level competitors headed to Acapulco, Mexico. Not for a vacation, but to compete at the 2022 Pan American Championships. Overall, Team USA cleaned up with 24 medals in 30 weight classes. The men's freestyle team lost one contested match, and overall, the Americans left with more than half of the gold medal (17) awarded. Here are the final results for each of the American competitors that represented us at the event.
Men's Freestyle
57 kg
Gold Medal - Thomas Gilman (USA) over Darian Cruz (Puerto Rico) 11-0
61 kg
Gold Medal - Daton Fix (USA) over Joey Silva (Puerto Rico) 11-0. Silva was silver medalist in round robin. This wasn't a gold medal match.
65 kg
Gold Medal - Joey McKenna (USA) over Sebastian Rivera (Puerto Rico) 10-0
70 kg
No Medal - Injury Default by Zain Retherford (USA)
74 kg
Gold Medal - Kyle Dake (USA) over Franklin Gomez (Puerto Rico) 10-1
79 kg
Gold Medal - Jordan Burroughs (USA) over Samuel Barmish (Canada) 12-1. Barmish was silver medalist in round robin. This wasn't a gold medal match.
86 kg
Gold Medal - Zahid Valencia (USA) over Lazaro Hernandez (Cuba) 4-1
92 kg
Gold Medal - J'den Cox (USA) over Jeremy Poirier (Canada) 11-0. Poirier was silver medalist in round robin. This wasn't a gold medal match.
97 kg
Gold Medal - Kyle Snyder (USA) over Arturo Silot Torres (Cuba) 12-1
125 kg
Gold Medal - Amar Dhesi (Canada) over Nick Gwiazdowski (USA) 5-3
Women's Freestyle
50 kg
Gold Medal - Sarah Hildebrandt (USA) over Madison Parks (Canada) 10-0
53 kg
Gold Medal - Dom Parrish (USA) over Luisa Valverde Melendres (Ecuador) Fall
55 kg
Gold Medal - Karla Godinez Gonzalez (Canada) over Jacarra Winchester (USA) 8-5
57 kg
Bronze Medal - Giullia Rodrigues Penalber de Oliveira (Brazil) over Cameron Guerin (USA) 7-7
59 kg
Bronze Medal - Ameyalli Jessel Rojas (Mexico) over Xochitl Mota-Pettis (USA) 19-8
62 kg
Gold Medal - Ana Godinez Gonzalez (Canada) over Kayla Miracle (USA) Default
65 kg
Gold Medal - Forrest Molinari (USA) over Miki Rowbottom (Canada) Fall
72 kg
Gold Medal - Skylar Grote (USA) over Brenda Aguiar Dos Santos (Brazil) 10-0. Aguiar Dos Santos was silver medalist in round robin. This wasn't a gold medal match.
76 kg
Gold Medal - Dymond Guilford (USA) over Genesis Reasco Valdez (Ecuador) 1-1
Men's Greco-Roman
55 kg
Gold Medal - Brady Koontz (USA) over Axel Salas Esquivel (Mexico) 9-1 Salas Esquivel was silver medalist in round robin. This wasn't a gold medal match.
60 kg
Gold Medal - Randon Miranda (USA) over Samuel Gurria Vigueras (Mexico) 12-8
63 kg
Gold Medal - Sam Jones (USA) over Jose Rodriguez Hernandez (Mexico) 10-0
67 kg
No Medal - Hayden Tuma went 1-1
72 kg
Gold Medal - Patrick Smith (USA) over Edsson Olmos Gutierrez (Mexico) 4-2. Olmos Gutierrez was silver medalist in round robin. This wasn't a gold medal match.
77 kg
Bronze Medal - RaVaughn Perkins (USA) over Emmanuel Benitez Castro (Mexico) 3-2
82 kg
Bronze Medal - Tyler Cunningham (USA) over Nestor Taffur (Colombia) Cautions
87 kg
No Medal - Richard Carlson went 0-1
97 kg
Bronze Medal - Nicholas Boykin (USA) over Eduardo Gajardo Meneses (Chile) Injury Default
130 kg
No Medal - Tanner Farmer went 0-2
Recommended Comments
There are no comments to display.
Join the conversation
You can post now and register later. If you have an account, sign in now to post with your account.
Note: Your post will require moderator approval before it will be visible.