Sports News of Tuesday, 3 August 2021Source: www.ghanaweb.com• Tamyra Mensah-Stock won gold medal in Wrestling• She defeated Nigeria’s Blessing Oborududu in the final• Mensah-Stock lost her Ghanaian father in 2020American athlete of Ghanaian descent, Tamyra Mensah-Stock became the first black woman to win an Olympic gold medal in Wrestling at the Tokyo Olympics on Tuesday. Tamyra Mensah-Stock won gold in the women’s freestyle 68kg wrestling final after defeating Nigeria’s Blessing Oborududu 4-1. Blessing Oborududu bagged the silver medal as Ukraine's Alla Cherkasova and Kyrgyzstan's Meerim Zhumanazarova claimed bronze medals. In my wildest dreams, I knew I could do it," Mensah-Stock said on winning an Olympic gold medal. The athlete of Ghanaian descent who lost her father last year said, her father “would have been the loudest one here.

Source: GhanaWeb August 03, 2021 18:56 UTC