5-7
22
Walnut Creek, CA
Diablo Valley College
2025-26 Team USA Ranking: No. 2 at 72 kg/158.75 pounds
Years on Team USA: 4 (2022-23, 2023-24, 2024-25, 2025-26)
Residence: Walnut Creek, Calif.
Regional Training Center: New York City RTC
Club: Titan Mercury WC
High School: Pleasant Hill, Calif. (College Park High School)
Born: January 1, 2004, in Walnut Creek, Calif.
2024 Olympic Games (Gold at 68 kg)
2023 Senior Worlds (Gold at 72 kg), 2022 Senior Worlds (Gold at 72 kg)
2023 U23 Worlds (Gold at 72 kg), 2023 U20 Worlds (Gold at 72 kg), 2022 U23 Worlds (Gold at 72 kg), 2022 U20 Worlds (Gold at 72 kg), 2021 U20 Worlds (Gold at 68 kg), 2021 U17 Worlds (Gold at 69 kg), 2019 U17 Worlds (Bronze at 69 kg), 2019 U17 Beach Worlds (Gold at 50+ kg)
2025: Final X runner-up … Senior World Team Trials champion
2024: Olympic Games gold medalist in Paris, France … Pan American Olympic Games Qualifier finalist in Acapulco, Mexico, qualifying the U.S. to compete at 68 kg at the 2024 Olympic Games … U.S. Olympic Team Trials champion … Pan American Olympic Games Qualifier Wrestle-Off champion
2023: Senior World Championships gold medalist in Belgrade, Serbia … U23 World Championships gold medalist in Tirana, Albania … U20 World Championships gold medalist in Amman, Jordan … Pan American Championships gold medalist … Final X champion
2022: Senior World Championships gold medalist in Belgrade, Serbia … U23 World Championships gold medalist in Pontevedra, Spain … U20 World Championships gold medalist in Sofia, Bulgaria … Final X champion
2021: U20 World Championships gold medalist in Ufa, Russia … U17 World Championships gold medalist in Budapest, Hungary … UWW Junior Nationals champion … UWW Cadet Nationals champion
2019: U17 World Championships bronze medalist in Sofia, Bulgaria … U17 Beach World Championships gold medalist in Odessa, Ukraine … UWW Cadet Nationals champion
2018: U15 Pan American Championships gold medalist
College: Currently taking online classes at Diablo Valley College with plans to either transfer to a four-year university or continue pursuing a degree online … Interested in pursuing studies in statistics, applied math and psychology
High School: 2019 California (CIF) girls state champion as a freshman for College Park High School
USA Wrestling Age-Group: 2022 and 2023 U20 Nationals champion … 2022 and 2023 U23 Nationals champion … 2019 Western Regional champion in freestyle, Greco-Roman and folkstyle … 2018 Schoolgirl Nationals champion … 2016 Novice USA Wrestling Kids Nationals champion in freestyle, Greco-Roman and folkstyle … 2016 Novice USA Wrestling Girls Folkstyle Nationals champion … 2015 Western Regional champion in freestyle … 2014 USA Wrestling Folkstyle Tour of America Las Vegas Royal Crush champion
Personal: Daughter of Elana and Yair Elor, who were born in Israel and moved to the U.S. in 1980 to attend college … Youngest of six children—three boys and three girls ... Older sister Ronny and older brother Orry were successful wrestlers, both winning USA Wrestling Junior Nationals titles, who inspired her to join the sport … Has a dog named Saoirse ... Has had chickens, ducks and a goose as pets ...Enjoys cooking, baking, hiking and lifting ... Participated in a variety of sports throughout her youth, including horseback riding, judo, gymnastics, rhythmic gymnastics, cheerleading, ballet, tap dancing, tennis, taekwondo and jiu-jitsu … Purple belt in jiu-jitsu ... Has had the same strength coach since 10-years-old—David Miller of Forma Gym … Favorite breakfast is oatmeal or Greek yogurt … Has watched the television series Futurama through multiple times … Often likes to run while listening to sad music
Awards: 2019 California high school state “Champion of Champions” award recipient
The No. 1 seed is 2023 World champion Buse Tosun of Turkey, who also won 2018 and 2021 World bronze medals, and a 2018 U23 World title. She wrestled in the 2016 Olympics. Her half-bracket will include No. 4 Irina Ringaci, No. 5 Tetiana Sova Rizhko of U...
USA Wrestling announced its 2023 Athlete and Coach of the Year award winners during the U.S. Olympic Team Trials – Wrestling at Penn State, April 19-20. We will post the winners of these awards this week, one day for each Olympic discipline. We started...
The No. 1 seed is 2023 World champion Buse Tosun of Turkey, who also won 2018 and 2021 World bronze medals, and a 2018 U23 World title. She wrestled in the 2016 Olympics. Her half-bracket will include No. 4 Irina Ringaci, No. 5 Tetiana Sova Rizhko of U...
USA Wrestling announced its 2023 Athlete and Coach of the Year award winners during the U.S. Olympic Team Trials – Wrestling at Penn State, April 19-20. We will post the winners of these awards this week, one day for each Olympic discipline. We started...
The 2024-25 Senior National Team is set in the 18 Olympic weights following the 2024 U.S. Olympic Team Trials – Wrestling in State College, Pennsylvania, last weekend.The top four finishers at each of the Olympic weights have secured a spot on the Seni...
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa.— Amit Elor has been not just a model of consistency, but a near guarantee for domination during her international wrestling career. Now she’ll get the opportunity to shine on wrestling’s biggest stage.Elor, the 20-year-old phenom, ...
ACAPULCO, Mexico – Team USA picked up three weight class quotas for the 2024 Olympic Games in women’s freestyle wrestling with masterful efforts at the Pan American Olympic Games Qualifier from Dom Parrish at 53 kg, Kayla Miracle at 62 kg and Amit Elor...
