Putting Women’s Wrestling on the Mat
August 23, 2004: At the Games of the XXVIII Olympiad in Athens, Tonya Verbeek wins silver in the women’s freestyle 55kg event, becoming Canada’s first female wrestling Olympic medallist.
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