Janiak Earns Silver; Nette and Kilty Pin to Bronze at Zagreb Open

ZAGREB, Croatia – Team USA collected three more medals at the Zagreb Open on Friday. Three-time age-group World medalist Alexis Janiak collected silver at 59 kg. 2022 World Team member Abigail Nette (59 kg) and two-time World medalist Macey Kilty (62 kg) each won their bronze medal matches at Arena Zagreb. Nette and Kilty both pinned their opponents to win their first medals of 2026.

Following a pair of wins in the morning, Janiak was unable to keep the momentum going in the evening session as she lost a 10-0 technical fall to two-time age-group World medalist Japan’s Sena Nagamoto. Nagamoto advanced after beating Nette in the semifinals.

Janiak’s silver medal in Zagreb is her second in senior-level international competition following a silver medal at last year’s Poland Open.

In the 59 kg bronze medal match, Nette battled Iris Slatka from the host country, Croatia. Nette stormed out of the gate with two early takedowns and a turn in the first minute. Nette then secured a four-point toss leading into her pin just 1:24 into the contest to secure the bronze medal.

This is Nette’s second-straight bronze medal in international competition and third-straight medal. She collected a bronze medal at the 2025 Polyak Imre & Varga Janos Memorial in Hungary and silver at last year’s Pan American Championships.

Kilty rebounded from her semifinal setback with her third pin of the tournament against two-time age group World champion Eniko Elekes of Hungary. Kilty scored a takedown in the first 45 seconds of action. Then, just before the end of the opening period, Kilty scored a four-point throw that started a flurry of scoring. After trading takedowns after the throw, Kilty pinned Elekes at 2:42.

In her last three Ranking Series events, Kilty has collected medals in each of her appearances. Last season, she finished with bronze at the Polyak Imre & Varga Janos Memorial, and she won silver at the 2022 Yasar Dogu in Türkiye.

Like Nette’s semifinal opponent, Nagamato, Kilty’s semifinal opponents went on to win gold. 2024 Olympic bronze medalist Nonoka Ozaki of Japan won an 8-0 decision in the final.

Kennedy Blades was the final American to move into a bronze medal match. However, following her 2-1 start to the tournament, she withdrew from her final match and finished fifth at 68 kg.

The Zagreb Open continues tomorrow at 10:30 a.m. local time / 4:30 a.m. (ET) with the final women’s freestyle group (53-57-72-76 kg) and Greco-Roman group two (77-87 kg) prelims.

A live broadcast of the event is available to the U.S. market through FloWrestling.

Brackets and match-by-match results can be found on UWW Arena.

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Gold – Sena Nagamoto (Japan)

Silver – Alexis Janiak (United States)

Bronze – Abigail Nette (United States)

Bronze – Elena Brugger (Germany)

5th – Iris Slatka (Croatia)

5th – Hiunai Hurbanova (Azerbaijan)

7th – Rajnita (India)

8th – Bediha Gun (Türkiye)

9th – Erika Bognar (Hungary)

Gold – Sena Nagamoto (Japan) tech. fall Alexis Janiak (United States), 10-0

Bronze – Abigail Nette (United States) fall Iris Slatka (Croatia), 1:24

Bronze – Elena Brugger (Germany) fall Hiunai Hurbanova (Azerbaijan), 4:58

Gold – Nonoka Ozaki (Japan)

Silver – Johanna Lindborg (Sweden)

Bronze – Anjli (India)

Bronze – Macey Kilty (United States)

5th – Bhagyashree Fand (India)

5th – Eniko Elekes (Hungary)

7th – Naemi Leistner (Germany)

8th – Lais Nunes (Brazil)

9th – Alara Boyd (United States)

10th – Irina Kuzetsova (Kazakhstan)

Gold – Nonoka Ozaki (Japan) dec. Johanna Lindborg (Sweden), 8-0

Bronze –Anjli (India) dec. Bhagyashree Fand (India), 5-4

Bronze – Macey Kilty (United States) fall Eniko Elekes (Hungary), 2:42

Gold – Nana Ikehata (Japan)

Silver – Pulkit (India)

Bronze – Kriszta Incze (Romania)

4th – Agnes Nygren (Sweden)

5th – Marijana Sumski (Croatia)

Round robin records: Ikehata (4-0), Pulkit (3-1), Incze (2-2), Nygren (1-3), Sumski (0-4)

Gold – Miwa Morikawa (Japan)

Silver – Nesrin Bas (Türkiye)

Bronze – Alina Shevchenko (UWW)

Bronze – Nisha (India)

5th – Aleah Nickel (Canada)

5th – Kennedy Blades (United States)

7th – Mansi Lather (India)

8th – Kateryna Zelenykh (Romania)

9th – Solin Piearcy (United States)

10th – Noémi Szabados (Hungary)

Gold – Miwa Morikawa (Japan) dec. Nesrin Bas (Türkiye), 5-2

Bronze – Alina Shevchenko (UWW) dec. Aleah Nickel (Canada), 9-0

Bronze – Nisha (India) med. for. Kennedy Blades (United States)

WIN Erika Bognar (Hungary), 2-1

WIN Dedhia Gun (Türkiye), 6-2

LOSS Sena Nagamoto (Japan), tech. fall, 11-0

WIN Iris Slatka (Croatia), fall 1:24

WIN Elena Brugger (Germany), 8-3

WIN Hiunai Hurbanova (Azerbaijan), tech. fall, 11-0

LOSS Sena Nagamoto (Japan), tech. fall, 10-0

LOSS Bhagyashree Fand (India), 3-2

LOSS Eniko Elekes (Hungary), tech. fall, 10-0

WIN Anastasiia Sidelnikova (UWW), fall 1:32

WIN Grace Bullen (Norway), fall 2:57

LOSS Nonoka Ozaki (Japan), 5-2

WIN Eniko Elekes (Hungary), fall 2:42

WIN Pauline Lecarpentier (France), 3-0

LOSS Aleah Nickel (Canada), 2-0

WIN Karolina Pok (Hungary), 11-2

WIN Mansi Lather (India), 5-3

LOSS Nesrin Bas (Türkiye), 2-1

LOSS Nisha (India), med. for.