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She broke the 5000m record last Friday at the Paris Diamond League meet by clocking 14:05.20, winning that race ahead of former world record-holder Letesenbet Gidey of Ethiopia.

Kipyegon became the first woman to go under 3 minutes, 50 seconds with her 3:49.11. The 29-year-old Kipyegon, a two-time Olympic 1500m champion, broke the 1500m world record in Florence, Italy on June 2, lowering the eight-year-old mark set by Genzebe Dibaba of Ethiopia. Kipyegon, who met with Ruto at the president’s office, said she would now fulfill a promise she had made to buy her father a new car. The Associated Press and NBC Olympic research contributed to this report.įaith Kipyegon was given $35,000 and a house by Kenyan President William Ruto on Tuesday as a reward for breaking two world records in the space of a week.

His grandfather, father and uncle were all ski jumpers. to a family of Polish immigrants from Zakopane, which has a ski jumping hill and hosts international competitions. Gasienica trained at the Norge Ski Club outside Chicago and joined fellow members of the club on the 2022 Olympic ski jumping team: Kevin Bickner and Casey Larson, both 2018 Olympians. He competed at one international event this past season, a Continental Cup in Iron Mountain, Michigan, in March with a best finish of 37th. Individually, he placed 49th on the normal hill and 53rd on the large hill in his Olympic debut. men’s quartet that placed 10th at the Olympics. Gasienica placed fourth at the December 2021 Olympic Trials, then was part of the U.S. All donations will be directed toward Gasienica’s mother, according to the fund website. He was living with his mom in McHenry, Illinois. Gasienica died “while returning from work on his motorcycle,” according to a memorial fund put together by a family friend and verified by USA Nordic. Favorite us! Follow Gasienica, who competed in ski jumping at the 2022 Winter Olympics, died in a motorcycle accident on Monday at age 24. At next April’s Olympic Trials, Gray can achieve the feat while also bidding to break the record for oldest female U.S. Saunders and Davis competed before women’s wrestling was added to the Olympics in 2004.Ī USA Wrestling spokesperson could not think of a mom who has made an Olympic team, but couldn’t say for sure, when asked in April. Past moms to make world teams include Hall of Famers Tricia Saunders and Kristie Davis, who both won multiple world titles as moms.

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Rio Olympic champion Helen Maroulis was granted a delay for her series with Xochitl Mota-Pettis for medical reasons. Tokyo Olympic champion Tamyra Mensah-Stock announced her retirement from wrestling last month to join the WWE. Gray was the most decorated woman to qualify Saturday. Olympic champs who made the world team: Kyle Snyder (who made it when J’den Cox forfeited due to injury), Gable Steveson (who swept Mason Parris) and David Taylor (who swept Aaron Brooks). Now, Burroughs must move back to an Olympic weight ahead of the April Olympic Trials, where he may have to dethrone four-time world champion Kyle Dake to make the team for Paris. wrestler.īurroughs has competed in the non-Olympic 79kg division since missing the Tokyo Olympic team in his familiar 74kg class.

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who won the opening match in the best-of-three series, saw his streak of world championship teams end at nine, dating to his first full freestyle season in 2011.īurroughs, 34, earned a medal at all of those world championships, including six golds, plus his 2012 Olympic gold, to break the record for most global titles for a U.S. Olympic gold medalist also made the world team except for Jordan Burroughs, who was ousted by Chance Marsteller 8-3 in their third and deciding 79kg match. It’s just going to take me a little bit of time.”Įvery active male U.S. “There’s pieces of wrestling that you have to put together. “It’s like every three weeks it’s a little bit more used to my body,” Gray, who returned to training in January while recovering from an ab separation from the pregnancy, said last month after winning a tournament to qualify for Final X. Open in Gray’s first competition since childbirth. On April 29, Blades earned a 10-point mercy-rule win over Gray at the U.S.

Gray, 32, swept 19-year-old Kennedy Blades in a best-of-three series for the 76kg spot at Saturday’s Final X, the event that determines most of the world team across men’s and women’s freestyle and Greco-Roman. wrestling team for September’s world championships. Adeline Gray, a six-time world champion and Olympic silver medalist, returned from having twins last July to make the U.S.

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