Mensah-Stock took gold at the 2019 World Wrestling Championships in the 68-kilogram weight class. The 28-year-old from Katy, TX, actually won the 2016 Olympic trials, but the US didn't earn an Olympic quota spot for her weight class (as teamusa.org explained, quotas are typically earned before the athlete representing that weight class is selected, but when Mensah-Stock tried to earn the Olympic quota spot for her weight class after the 2016 trials, she fell short).
"I wanted to come back and prove to everybody and myself that I could become an Olympian and I did it. I'm so proud of myself," Mensah-Stock said. She'd already qualified the 68-kilogram weight class for Tokyo back in 2019 at the world championships. "I knew I had to represent the US at 68 kg in Tokyo." Watch her emotional interview after her trials victory above.
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