Rong Ningning (born 5 October 1997) is a Chinese

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 won the gold medal in the women's 57 kg event at the

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held in Budapest, Hungary.

Career

In 2017, Rong competed in the 58kg event at the

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in Paris, France where she reached the quarterfinals after defeating Jowita Wrzesień and

Pooja Dhanda Pooja Dhanda (born 1 January 1994) is an Indian wrestler from Budana village of Hisar district in Haryana,

in earlier rounds. In the quarterfinals she was defeated by

Marwa Amri Marwa Al-Amri ( ar, مروى العامري, born 8 January 1989) is a Tunisian freestyle wrestler. She was born in Tunis. She represented Tunisia in the women's lightweight freestyle competition at the 2008, 2012, 2016 and 2020 Summer Olympics. ...

who went on to win the silver medal in that event. Rong then entered the repechage where she won her match against Iryna Chykhradze of Ukraine but lost her bronze medal match against

Aisuluu Tynybekova Aisuluu Tynybekova ( ky, Айсулуу Тыныбекова, born 4 May 1993 in Bishkek) is a Kyrgyz freestyle wrestler. She won the silver medal in the women's 62 kg event at the 2020 Summer Olympics held in Tokyo, Japan. She also competed in ...

of Kyrgyzstan. In 2018, at the

Golden Grand Prix Ivan Yarygin 2018 The XXIX Golden Grand Prix Ivan Yarygin 2018, also known as Ivan Yarygin (Yariguin) 2018 was a wrestling event held in Krasnoyarsk, Russia between 26 and 28 January 2018. It was held as the second of the ranking series of United World Wrestling,i ...

held in Krasnoyarsk, Russia, she won the gold medal in the women's 59 kg event. In 2019, she won the gold medal in the women's 57 kg event at the

2019 Asian Wrestling Championships The 2019 Asian Wrestling Championships was held in Xi'an, China. The event took place from April 23 to April 28, 2019. Medal table Team ranking Medal summary Men's freestyle Men's Greco-Roman Women's freestyle Participating nations ...

held in Xi'an, China. In the same year, at the

held in Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan, she won the silver medal in the women's 57kg event. Rong represented China at the

2020 Summer Olympics The , officially the and also known as , was an international multi-sport event held from 23 July to 8 August 2021 in Tokyo, Japan, with some preliminary events that began on 21 July. Tokyo was selected as the host city during the ...

in Tokyo, Japan. She competed in the women's 57kg event where she was eliminated in her first match.

Achievements

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Rong, Ningning Living people 1997 births Place of birth missing (living people) Chinese female sport wrestlers World Wrestling Championships medalists World Wrestling Champions Asian Wrestling Championships medalists Wrestlers at the 2020 Summer Olympics Olympic wrestlers for China 21st-century Chinese women