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BELGRADE, Serbia — Canada’s Erica Wiebe will wrestle for bronze in the women’s 76-kilogram event at United World Wrestling’s Individual World Cup.
Wiebe, a Stittsville, Ont., native who trains in Calgary, will take on the winner of a repechage between Vasilisa Marzaliuk of Belarus and Pauline Denise Lecarpentier of France in a bronze-medal match Wednesday.
Wiebe, the defending Olympic champion in the 75-kg discipline, opened with a win over India’s Kiran Kiran and defeated Hungary’s Zsanett Nemeth in the quarterfinals before losing to Turkey’s Yasemin Adar by fall in the semifinals.
Adar, the 2017 world champion, will face Germany’s Aline Focken in the gold-medal match.
Russia’s Ekaterina Bukina will take on Aiperi Medet Kyzy of Kyrgyzstan in the other bronze-medal match.
This report by The Canadian Press was first published Dec. 15, 2020.
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