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#GrecoMonday: Watch the four Americans qualify their weight classes for the 2020 Olympic Games and hear their reactions after getting the job done

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by Mike Willis, USA Wrestling

This weekend at the Pan Am Olympic Qualifier in Ottawa, Canada, Team USA qualified four Greco-Roman weight classes for the 2020 Olympic Games. Ildar Hafizov (60 kg), Alejandro Sancho (67 kg), Joe Rau (87 kg) and G’Angelo Hancock (97 kg) all reached the finals at their respective weight classes, getting the job done for the Red, White and Blue. Rau finished with gold, while the other three wrestlers took silver. Check out some of the battles they had this weekend as well as what they had to say after getting their weight class qualified.

Hafizov's come-from-behind victory over 2019 Pan Am Games champion Andres Montano Arroyo of Ecuador 

  

 

Hafizov's semifinal match

  

 

Hafizov after qualifying the weight class for the Olympic Games

  

 

Sancho's opening match

  

 

Sancho's semifinal match

  

 

Rau's come-from-behind victory over 2019 Pan Am Games champion Luis Avendano Rojas of Venezuela

  

 

Rau's semifinal match

  

 

Rau after qualifying the weight class for the Olympic Games

  

 

Hancock's semifinal match

  

 

Hancock after qualifying the weight class for the Olympic Games

 

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