Wrestler Adeline Gray To Chase A Fourth World Title After Final X Victory
BYÂ PAUL D. BOWKER
Adeline Gray is storming back into competition for a run at a fourth world title.
After taking a year off from competition in 2017, the 2016 Olympian locked down a spot on the 2018 U.S. world team by sweeping rising star Korinahe Bullock at Saturday night’s Final X in State College, Pennsylvania.
Gray was one of six freestyle wrestlers to win best-of-three matches and capture spots on the world team. The UWW World Wrestling Championships will be held in October in Budapest, Hungary.
Saturday’s competition was the second of three Final X Series meets, each consisting of six or seven weight classes.
Since returning to competition in October, Gray has had success at the Dave Schultz Memorial in the U.S., Flatz Open in Austria, Klippan Open in Sweden and 2018 World Cup in Japan. She has regained her number one world ranking, and is on a world team for the seventh time. She won Saturday by a technical fall and a pin in the women’s 76-kilogram weight class.
Gray is a five-time world medalist, winning titles in 2012, 2014 and 2015 and bronzes in 2011 and 2013. She was fifth at her first worlds in 2009.
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Source: teamusa.org