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Shungnak s Woods places 4th at Olympic wrestling trials April 8th 11:53 am |
Beth Bragg, ADN
Wrestler the first Alaskan to compete in Greco-Roman division at trials
Shungnak wrestler Spencer Woods didn t make the Olympic team at this weekend s U.S. Olympic Team Trials in Texas, but he finished fourth overall and came close to clinching a spot on the national team.
Woods, 22, last Friday became the first Alaskan to wrestle in the Greco-Roman division at the U.S. Olympic Trials. He lost a close quarterfinal-round match in the 87-kilogram (192 pound) weight class and then roared back in Saturday s wrestlebacks.
Woods scored an 8-5 decision in his first consolation-round match and won his consolation semifinal by forfeit. That put him in the third-place bout, where he scored an injury default victory three minutes into the match.
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FOUR Marines Place 5th at Henri Deglane GP in France
Patrick Smith (77 kg, Minnesota Storm, 5PM #1). Among the group, not counting Smith and just within the Marines, were
five National Team representatives.
But for all of the delegation’s substantial firepower brought to bear, the 2021 Henri Deglane Grand Prix in Nice, France was much more about regaining lost match time than it was collecting hardware. That isn’t to say victory all of the sudden ceased as a principle objective. They don’t fly thousands of miles to merely step on scales and go home. It is more that the wrestlers have required different inputs from outside of their respective practice rooms, and one way to get that done was to hop over to France and pick a fight.