Annika Wendle (born 15 September 1997) is a German

freestyle wrestler Freestyle wrestling is a style of wrestling originated from Great Britain and the United States. Along with Greco-Roman, it is one of the two styles of wrestling contested in the Olympic Games. American high school and men's college wrestling i ...

. She is a two-time bronze medalist at the

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. She also won a silver medal at the

2020 Individual Wrestling World Cup The inaugural 2020 Individual World Wrestling Cup was held in Belgrade, Serbia from 12–18 December 2020. It was a replacement event for the 2020 World Championships, which should have taken place in the same location, but since some criteria wer ...

held in Belgrade, Serbia.

Career

Wendle won the silver medal in the women's 53kg event at the 2018 World University Wrestling Championships held in Goiânia, Brazil. In 2019, Wendle competed in the 53kg event at the

held in Bucharest, Romania where she was eliminated in her first match by Jessica Blaszka of the Netherlands. Blaszka went on to win one of the bronze medals in that event. In that same year, Wendle also competed in the 55kg event at the

2019 World Wrestling Championships The 2019 World Wrestling Championships were held in Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan from 14 September to 22 September 2019. The tournament served as qualification for the 2020 Summer Olympics, the top six wrestlers from each category earned their NOCs a qu ...

held in Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan without winning a medal. In 2020, Wendle won one of the bronze medals in the 53kg event at the

held in Rome, Italy. In the same year, she also won the silver medal in the women's 55kg event at the

held in Belgrade, Serbia. In the final, she lost against Iryna Kurachkina of Belarus. In April 2021, Wendle won one of the bronze medals in the 53kg event at the

held in Warsaw, Poland. In May 2021, she failed to qualify for the Olympics at the World Olympic Qualification Tournament held in Sofia, Bulgaria. In October 2021, she was eliminated in her first match in the women's 53kg event at the 2021 World Wrestling Championships held in Oslo, Norway. Wendle competed in the women's 53kg event at the

2022 European Wrestling Championships The 2022 European Wrestling Championships was held from 28 March to 3 April 2022 in Budapest, Hungary. Belarusian and Russian wrestlers did not compete at the event after a ban as a result of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Competition schedule ...

held in Budapest, Hungary where she was eliminated in her first match. She won one of the bronze medals in the women's 53kg event at the Grand Prix de France Henri Deglane 2023 held in Nice, France. In 2024, Wendle competed in the women's 53kg event at the

held in Bucharest, Romania where she was eliminated in her first match. She competed at the 2024 European Wrestling Olympic Qualification Tournament in Baku, Azerbaijan hoping to qualify for the

2024 Summer Olympics ) , nations = TBA , athletes = 10,500 ''(quota limit)'' , events = 329 in 32 sports (48 disciplines) , opening = 26 July 2024 , closing = 11 August 2024 , opened_by = , stadium = Stade de France Jardins du Trocadéro and River Seine , summe ...

in Paris, France. Wendle was eliminated in her third match and she did not qualify for the Olympics.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Wendle, Annika Living people 1997 births Place of birth missing (living people) German female sport wrestlers European Wrestling Championships medalists 21st-century German women