Justina Di Stasio (born November 22, 1992) is a Canadian

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of Italian and Cree descent.

Career

In 2015, Di Stasio won a gold medal in the 75 kg

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at the annual

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. She also won the 2015 Dave Schultz Memorial. Later in 2015, on home soil, Di Stasio won silver at the

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. In 2018 at the

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, Di Stasio won gold in the 72 kg event. 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. She won one of the bronze medals in her event at the

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held in Acapulco, Mexico. She won the gold medal in the women's 76 kg event at the

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held in Birmingham, England. She lost her bronze medal match in the 76 kg event at the

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held in Belgrade, Serbia. She won the silver medal in the women's 76kg event at the Grand Prix de France Henri Deglane 2023 held in Nice, France. She won one of the bronze medals in the women's 76kg 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.

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