Match of the Day: Helen Maroulis secures her first Senior World medal with a semifinal win at the 2012 World Championships
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by USA Wrestling
Helen Maroulis has already established herself as a legendary figure in wrestling. A two-time World champion and the first U.S. woman to win Olympic gold, Maroulis made her first Senior World Team in 2008. However, Maroulis’ first Senior World medal wouldn’t come until 2012.
At the time, Maroulis was a three-time Junior World medalist, taking bronze in 2008 and 2010 and silver in 2011. In addition to the 2008 Senior World Championships where she placed eighth, Maroulis also made the 2011 Senior World Team and finished fifth.
In the 2012 World semifinals Maroulis overcame Canada’s Brittanee Laverdure, a 2008 World bronze medalist, to lock up her first finish on the Senior podium.
In the finals, Maroulis fell to the legendary Saori Yoshida of Japan. However, Maroulis would get her revenge four years later at the Rio Olympic Games, defeating Yoshida in the gold medal match. Yoshida would retire a 13-time World champion, a three-time Olympic gold medalist and a one-time Olympic silver medalist.
Watch Maroulis defeat Laverdure and secure her first Senior medal below:
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