Hannah Fay Taylor (born 30 April 1998) is a Canadian
freestyle wrestler
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. Taylor competed for Canada at the
2019 Pan American Games
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, and at the
Pan American Wrestling Championships
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she won the silver medal in 2019 and 2020. She won one of the bronze medals in the women's 57kg event at the
2022 Commonwealth Games
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held in Birmingham, England. She is a member of the women's wrestling team at Brock University.
Personal life
Taylor was born in
Charlottetown
Charlottetown is the capital and largest city of the Canadian province of Prince Edward Island, and the county seat of Queens County. Named after Queen Charlotte, Charlottetown was an unincorporated town until it was incorporated as a city in ...
,
Prince Edward Island
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and raised in
Cornwall, Prince Edward Island
Cornwall is a Canadian town located in Queens County, Prince Edward Island. The town is located immediately west of the provincial capital Charlottetown.
History
The community of Cornwall traces its history to European settlement in the 18t ...
. She currently resides in the
Niagara Region
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and studies sport management at Brock University.
She obtained her high school diploma from
Three Oaks Senior High School
Three Oaks Senior High School (often abbreviated as TOSH) is a Canadian secondary school located in Summerside, Prince Edward Island for students from the eastern part of Prince County, including the City of Summerside.
The school is administra ...
, located in
Summerside, Prince Edward Island
Summerside is a Canadian city in Prince County, Prince Edward Island. It is the second largest city in the province and the primary service centre for the western part of the island.
History
Summerside was officially incorporated as a town on ...
.
Career
In 2013, Taylor competed for Prince Edward Island (PEI) in wrestling at the
2013 Canada Summer Games
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, where she won a silver medal, and she was the flag-bearear for the province at the opening ceremonies of the games. She later represented PEI in the sport of judo at the
Linda Morais
Linda Morais (born 31 July 1993) is a wrestler competing for Canada.
She won a gold medal in the 59 kg freestyle at the 2019 World Wrestling Championships and a bronze medal in the 60 kg freestyle at the 2016 World Wrestling Champions ...
in the 57 kg finals of the Canadian Wrestling Trials, thereby failing to secure an entry into the Pan-Am Olympic Qualification Tournament in Ottawa.
U SPORTS
In 2017, she was named the rookie of the year by
U SPORTS
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and that same year, claimed a gold medal at the
Ontario University Athletics
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(OUA) wrestling championships.
From 2016–2017 to 2019–2020, she received a gold medal three times at the national level (U SPORTS Wrestling Championships) and four times at the provincial level (OUA Wrestling Championships).
International competitions
In 2019, Taylor represented Canada at the
2019 Pan American Games
The 2019 Pan American Games ( es, Juegos Panamericanos de 2019, links=no), officially the XVIII Pan American Games and commonly known as the Lima 2019 Pan-Am Games or Lima 2019 ( qu, Limaq 2019), were a multi-sport event governed by the Panam Spo ...
held in Lima, Peru in the 57 kg event where she was eliminated in her first match by Giullia Penalber of Brazil. Penalber went on to win one of the bronze medals. Later that year, Taylor also competed in the 57 kg 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 ...
where she was eliminated in her first match by Jong In-sun.
In 2019, she also competed at the
2019 World U23 Wrestling Championship
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Hungary ( hu, Magyarország ) is a landlocked country in Ce ...
where she won one of the bronze medals in the 57 kg event. Two years later, she also won one of the bronze medals in the 57 kg event at the
2021 U23 World Wrestling Championships
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held in Belgrade, Serbia.
Taylor won one of the bronze medals in the women's 57 kg event at the
2022 Commonwealth Games
The 2022 Commonwealth Games, officially known as the XXII Commonwealth Games and commonly known as Birmingham 2022, was an international multi-sport event for members of the Commonwealth of Nations that took place in Birmingham, England bet ...
held in Birmingham, England. She competed in the 57kg event at the
2022 World Wrestling Championships
The 2022 World Wrestling Championships was the 17th edition of the World Wrestling Championships of combined events and was held between 10 and 18 September 2022 in Belgrade, Serbia.
The UWW Bureau approved the candidature of Belgrade, Serbia ...
held in Belgrade, Serbia.
Taylor won the silver medal in the women's 57kg event at the
2023 Pan American Games
The 2023 Pan American Games ( es, Juegos Panamericanos de 2023, links=no), officially the XIX Pan American Games and commonly known as Santiago 2023, is a forthcoming international multi-sport event governed by the Panam Sports Organization, s ...
2024 Summer Olympics
The 2024 Summer Olympics (french: Jeux olympiques d'été de 2024), officially the Games of the XXXIII Olympiad (french: Jeux de la XXXIIIe Olympiade, links=no) and also known as Paris 2024, is an upcoming international multi-sport event that is s ...