Canada’s Hannah Taylor falls short in Olympic wrestling bronze match
![Canada's Hannah Fay Taylor celebrates after defeating Ecuador's Luisa Elizabeth Valverde Melendres during their women's freestyle 57kg repechage wrestling match at Champ-de-Mars Arena during the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris, France, on Aug. 9, 2024](https://toronto.citynews.ca/wp-content/blogs.dir/sites/10/2024/08/09/hannahtaylor-wrestling-parisolympics-e1723209536775-1024x577.jpg)
Posted August 9, 2024 9:19 am.
Last Updated August 9, 2024 3:33 pm.
Canada’s Hannah Taylor fell just short of an improbable Olympic bronze medal.
The Summerside, P.E.I., wrestler lost to American Helen Maroulis 4-0 in a bronze-medal fight on Friday afternoon in the women’s 57-kilogram division.
Maroulis repeated as bronze medalist from three years ago in Tokyo after taking Olympic gold in Rio de Janeiro at 53 kg in 2016.
Taylor lost to three-time reigning world champion Tsugumi Sakurai of Japan in the quarterfinals and earned a repechage spot when Sakurai advanced to the final. She beat Luisa Elizabeth Valverde Melendres of Ecuador 13-0 in a repechage to qualify for a bronze-medal bout.
The 26-year-old Taylor, who was making her Olympic debut, won silver at last year’s Pan American Games but never has reached the quarterfinals at a world championships.