Cynthia Vescan, just 20 years old, was qualified yesterday for the Olympic Games in the Women’s Wrestling – 72 kilograms category.
Licensed with the Nice Olympic Wrestling Côte d’Azur, Cynthia VESCAN participated in the last Olympic qualification tournament in Finland this weekend in the 72-kilogram women’s wrestling category.
In the first round, she faced the Lithuanian ORDRINA, whom she defeated by fall. In the quarter-finals, she wrestled against the Brazilian DA SILVA and won 1/0 – 5/1. In the semi-finals, she defeated the Austrian GASTL 1/0-5/4 and secured her ticket to London. In the final, Cynthia Vescan faced the Spaniard UNDA, who had previously blocked her path in the last tournament in China.
Cynthia VESCAN trains at Insep in Paris.
She has a great chance of winning a medal at the London Games this summer and could obtain an Olympic medal in her category. She will be the only Frenchwoman to try her luck in this discipline.
