Downing wins gold medal at Tourcoing Grand Prix in France
John Fuller\/USA Wrestling<\/p>\n
Tourcoing, France – Katie Downing (Colorado Springs, Colo.\/Sunkist Kids) captured a gold medal at the Tourcoing Grand Prix in France on Sunday, leading a U.S. squad that won three medals overall.<\/p>\n
Downing rolled through her three opponents at 67 kg\/147.5 lbs. on her way to the gold medal.<\/p>\n
In the first round, she defeated 2004 African national champion Kaouther Chanmi of Tunisia, 5-0, 7-0. In the semifinals, Downing shut out 2004 University World silver medalist Monika Maj of Poland, 3-0, 2-0 before defeating Benita Zarzecka of Poland, 3-1, 7-2, in the gold-medal bout.<\/p>\n
Also winning medals for the U.S. were Sara Fulp-Allen (El Granada, Calif.\/Menlo College) at 48 kg\/105.5 lbs. and Stefanie Shaw (Waterford, Conn.\/New England Elite) at 63 kg\/138.75 lbs.<\/p>\n
Fulp-Allen’s only loss in four matches came to eventual champion Iwona Sadowaka of Poland, 0-3, 0-3. Sadowaka was a 2004 University World silver medalist.<\/p>\n
Shaw defeated 2003 African national champion Soumaya Ben Sassi of Tunisia, 5-0, 3-0 to win a bronze medal. Her only loss came to Nadia Moussaoui of France, who has twice placed fifth at the University World Championships, 1-3, 1-2.<\/p>\n
Malinda Ripley (Colorado Springs, Colo.\/Sunkist Kids) placed fifth at 55 kg\/121 lbs. and N’Tasha Umemoto (Portland, Ore.\/Sunkist Kids) placed ninth at 59 kg\/130 lbs. for the U.S. team.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Downing wins gold medal at Tourcoing Grand Prix in FranceJohn Fuller\/USA Wrestling Tourcoing, France – Katie Downing (Colorado Springs, Colo.\/Sunkist Kids) captured a gold medal at the Tourcoing Grand Prix in France on Sunday, leading a U.S. squad that won three medals overall. Downing rolled through her three opponents at 67 kg\/147.5 lbs. on her […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wrestling"],"blocksy_meta":{"styles_descriptor":{"styles":{"desktop":"","tablet":"","mobile":""},"google_fonts":[],"version":6}},"acf":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2B7Di-81","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wrestlingpod.com\/wrestling-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wrestlingpod.com\/wrestling-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wrestlingpod.com\/wrestling-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrestlingpod.com\/wrestling-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrestlingpod.com\/wrestling-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=497"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrestlingpod.com\/wrestling-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wrestlingpod.com\/wrestling-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrestlingpod.com\/wrestling-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrestlingpod.com\/wrestling-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}