Kylie Welker
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| Full name | Kylie Renee Welker | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 17 December 2003 Franksville, Wisconsin, U.S. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.72 m (5 ft 8 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 72 kg (159 lb; 11.3 st) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Country |  United States | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sport | Wrestling | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight class | 72 kg | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Event | Freestyle | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Kylie Welker (born 17 December 2003) is an American freestyle wrestler.[1][2]
Wrestling career
International
She reached the semifinals of the 2024 World Wrestling Championships held in Tirana, Albania, in the women's freestyle 72kg competition by defeating Canadian Aleah Nickel with a 10-0 technical superiority in the first round, French Pauline Lecarpentier 4–0 in the second round, and Chinese Jiang Qian in the quarterfinals with a 7–2 lead. In the semifinals, she lost to Japan's Ami Ishii with a 12-1 technical superiority. She defeated Romanian Alexandra Anghel 5–2 in the bronze medal match and won the bronze medal.[3]
She won one of the bronze medals in the women's 76 kg event at the 2025 World Wrestling Championships held in Zagreb, Croatia.[4]
NCWWC
Welker competes for the University of Iowa Hawkeyes women's wrestling where she has won two NCWWC team and individual titles. [5]
NCAA
References
- ^ "Kylie Renee Welker profile page". uww.org.
- ^ "Kylie Renee Welker". hawkeyesports.com.
- ^ "Women – Seniors – 72 kg – Results". United World Wrestling. Retrieved 28 October 2024.
- ^ "2025 World Wrestling Championships Results Book" (PDF). United World Wrestling. Archived from the original (PDF) on 22 September 2025. Retrieved 22 September 2025.
- ^ https://www.themat.com/news/2024/march/09/welker-beats-makoyed-in-last-match-as-iowa-edges-north-central-to-win-its-first-ncwwc-team-title