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PARIS – Former King University women’s wrestler Sarah Hildebrandt will wrestle for gold on Wednesday at the 2024 Paris Olympics.
A 2015 graduate at King, Hildebrandt won two matches in the 50 kilogram weight class on Tuesday to advance to the finals on Wednesday against Vinesh Phogat of India. The match is slated to begin at 12:15 p.m.
Hildebrandt, a sixth seed, who won bronze in the same event at the 2021 Toyko Olympics, earned a 10-0 tech fall win over Ibtissem Doudou of Algeria in the opening round. That was followed by the quarterfinals, which she led China’s Feng Ziqi 5-4 after one period before getting a takedown with 35 seconds left to secure a 7-4 win.
Hildebrandt cruised in the semifinals with a 5-0 decision over Mongolia’s Otgonjargal Dolgorjav to advance to her first Olympic gold medal match.
Phogat defeated defending 2021 Olympics champion Yui Susaki of Japan in the Round of 16 on Tuesday.
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A native of Indiana, Hildebrandt, who fell short in the U.S. Olympic Trials in 2012 and 2016, had a stellar career at King, earning All-America honors four times from 2012-15, claiming two individual national championships and also played a key role in two team titles for the Tornado.
Hildebrandt won a bronze medal in Toyko in 2021, defeating Oksana Livach of Ukraine, having overcome an earlier loss to eventual silver medalist Yanan Sun of China, who lost to Susaki in the Gold Medal round.
Hildebrandt, who has medaled in four world championship events, is the third King University athlete to compete in the Olympics and became the first to win a medal.
Other King alumni to compete in the Olympics include women’s wrestler Haley Augello for the United States in 2016 and Kemar Hyman, who was part of the Cayman Islands track and field team in 2012 and 2016.
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