Michelle Fazzari
Appearance
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Born | Hamilton, Ontario, Canada | July 10, 1987||||||||||||||||||||
Alma mater | Cayuga Secondary School | ||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 173 cm (5 ft 8 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 58 kg (128 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Sport | Freestyle wrestling | ||||||||||||||||||||
Club | Brock Wrestling Club | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Michelle Cristina Fazzari (born July 10, 1987) is a Canadian wrestler. She finished in 5th place at the 2014 World Wrestling Championships. She has been ranked number 2 in the world.[1]
Three weeks after undergoing knee surgery, Fazzari made her Pan Am Games debut at Toronto 2015, finishing seventh.[2] Ivan Yarygin Grand-prix bronze medalist 2015
In July 2016, she was officially named to Canada's 2016 Olympic team.[3][4] In 2021, she won the gold medal in the 62 kg event at the Matteo Pellicone Ranking Series 2021 held in Rome, Italy.[5]
References
[edit]- ^ "World Championships preview in women's freestyle wrestling at 60 kg/132 lbs". Team USA. Archived from the original on August 31, 2014.
- ^ "Michelle Fazzari". olympic.ca. Canadian Olympic Committee. Retrieved 27 July 2016.
- ^ Gillespie, Kerry (23 June 2016). "Canadian wrestlers keep getting up off the mat". Toronto, Canada: Toronto Star. Retrieved 25 June 2016.
- ^ "Canadian Wrestling Team Nominated for Rio 2016". www.wrestling.ca/. Wrestling Canada. 22 June 2016. Retrieved 16 July 2016.
- ^ "Matteo Pellicone Ranking Series 2021" (PDF). United World Wrestling. Archived (PDF) from the original on 21 March 2021. Retrieved 21 March 2021.
External links
[edit]- Michelle Fazzari at the International Wrestling Database
- Michelle Fazzari at Olympics.com
- Michelle Fazzari at Olympedia
- Michelle Fazzari at the Canadian Olympic Committee
Categories:
- 1987 births
- Brock Badgers wrestlers
- Canadian female sport wrestlers
- Living people
- Sportspeople from Hamilton, Ontario
- Wrestlers at the 2014 Commonwealth Games
- Wrestlers at the 2015 Pan American Games
- Wrestlers at the 2016 Summer Olympics
- Olympic wrestlers for Canada
- Wrestlers at the 2018 Commonwealth Games
- Commonwealth Games medallists in wrestling
- Commonwealth Games silver medallists for Canada
- World Wrestling Championships medalists
- Pan American Games competitors for Canada
- 21st-century Canadian sportswomen
- Medallists at the 2018 Commonwealth Games
- Canadian sport wrestler stubs