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Justina Di Stasio

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Justina Di Stasio
Di Stasio holds her silver medal from the 2015 Pan American Games
Personal information
NationalityCanadian
Born (1992-11-22) November 22, 1992 (age 33)
Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada
Height171 cm (5 ft 7 in)
Weight75 kg (165 lb)
Sport
SportFreestyle wrestling
ClubBurnaby Mountain wrestling club
Medal record
Women's freestyle wrestling
Representing  Canada
World Championships
Gold medal – first place2018 Budapest72 kg
Bronze medal – third place2017 Paris75 kg
Commonwealth Games
Gold medal – first place2022 Birmingham76 kg
Pan American Games
Gold medal – first place2019 Lima76 kg
Silver medal – second place2015 Toronto75 kg
Pan American Championships
Gold medal – first place2020 Ottawa76 kg
Gold medal – first place2017 Lauro de Freitas75 kg
Bronze medal – third place2022 Acapulco76 kg
Bronze medal – third place2023 Buenos Aires76 kg

Justina Di Stasio (born November 22, 1992) is a Canadian wrestler[1] of Italian and Cree descent.[2]

Career

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In 2015, Di Stasio won a gold medal in the 75 kg weight class at the annual Pan American Wrestling Championships. She also won the 2015 Dave Schultz Memorial.[3] Later in 2015, on home soil, Di Stasio won silver at the 2015 Pan American Games in Toronto.[4]

In 2018, at the World Wrestling Championships in Budapest, Di Stasio won gold in the 72 kg event.[5] She spoke about pride in her Indigenous roots, thanking her Cree mother, from the Norway House Cree Nation in Manitoba, for working to give her opportunities leading to her success.[2]

Di Stasio won one of the bronze medals in her event at the 2022 Pan American Wrestling Championships held in Acapulco, Mexico.[6][7] She won the gold medal in the women's 76 kg event at the 2022 Commonwealth Games held in Birmingham, England.[8][9] She lost her bronze medal match in the 76 kg event at the 2022 World Wrestling Championships held in Belgrade, Serbia.[10][11]

Di Stasio won the silver medal in the women's 76 kg event at the Grand Prix de France Henri Deglane 2023 held in Nice, France.[12] She won one of the bronze medals in the women's 76 kg event at the 2023 Grand Prix Zagreb Open held in Zagreb, Croatia.

She won one of the bronze medals in her event at the 2023 Pan American Wrestling Championships held in Buenos Aires, Argentina.[13] In 2024, at the Pan American Wrestling Olympic Qualification Tournament held in Acapulco, Mexico, she earned a quota place for Canada for the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris, France.[14][15] She defeated Saidy Chávez of Honduras and she then secured the quota place by defeating Linda Machuca of Argentina.[15] She competed in the women's 76 kg event at the Olympics.[16]

Awards

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References

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  1. ↑ "Justina Di Stasio". Team Canada. Canadian Olympic Team Official Website. 2015. Retrieved June 23, 2015.
  2. 1 2 Larsen, Karin (October 25, 2018). "Coquitlam wrestler says eating vegetables and wrestling boys key to her world title". CBC News. Retrieved October 26, 2018.
  3. ↑ "Justina Di Stasio". Wrestling Canada Lutte.
  4. ↑ McGran, Kevin (July 17, 2015). "Canada wins two more Pan Am gold medals in women's wrestling". Toronto Star. Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Retrieved October 26, 2018.
  5. ↑ "Canada's Justina Di Stasio wins gold at world wrestling championships". Canadian Press. Toronto, Ontario, Canada. October 24, 2018. Retrieved October 26, 2018.
  6. ↑ Burke, Patrick (May 7, 2022). "Hildebrandt earns seventh Pan American Championships wrestling title". InsideTheGames.biz. Retrieved May 8, 2022.
  7. ↑ "2022 Pan American Wrestling Championships Results Book" (PDF). United World Wrestling. Archived from the original (PDF) on May 9, 2022. Retrieved May 9, 2022.
  8. ↑ Berkeley, Geoff (August 6, 2022). "Phogat completes Commonwealth Games hat-trick with another wrestling gold". InsideTheGames.biz. Retrieved August 6, 2022.
  9. ↑ "Wrestling Competition Summary" (PDF). 2022 Commonwealth Games. Archived from the original (PDF) on August 6, 2022. Retrieved August 6, 2022.
  10. ↑ Burke, Patrick (September 14, 2022). "Susaki and Morikawa earn Japanese double at World Wrestling Championships". InsideTheGames.biz. Retrieved September 15, 2022.
  11. ↑ "2022 World Wrestling Championships Results Book" (PDF). United World Wrestling. Archived from the original (PDF) on September 18, 2022. Retrieved September 18, 2022.
  12. ↑ "Grand Prix de France Henri Deglane 2023 Results Book" (PDF). United World Wrestling. Archived from the original (PDF) on January 29, 2023. Retrieved February 4, 2023.
  13. ↑ "2023 Pan American Wrestling Championships Results Book" (PDF). United World Wrestling. Archived from the original (PDF) on February 26, 2024. Retrieved February 26, 2024.
  14. ↑ "Qualified NOCs at 2024 Pan American Wrestling Olympic Qualification Tournament" (PDF). United World Wrestling. Archived from the original (PDF) on March 4, 2024. Retrieved March 4, 2024.
  15. 1 2 "2024 Pan American Wrestling Olympic Qualification Tournament Results Book" (PDF). United World Wrestling. Archived from the original (PDF) on March 4, 2024. Retrieved March 4, 2024.
  16. ↑ "Wrestling Results Book" (PDF). 2024 Summer Olympics. Archived from the original (PDF) on August 11, 2024. Retrieved August 12, 2024.
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