6 former Beat the Streets Annual Benefit participants medal for Team USA at 2024 Olympics

Sarah Hildebrandt and Amit Elor each won Olympic gold.

Six former Beat the Streets Annual Benefit participants won medals for the United States at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris.

Sarah Hildebrandt (50 kilograms) and Amit Elor (68 kilograms) each won their first career Olympic gold in women's freestyle. Hildebrandt, a 2020 Olympic bronze medalist, and Elor competed at the BTS Annual Benefit events in 2022 and 2023.

Kennedy Blades (76 kg.) earned her first Olympic medal with a silver medal. She made her BTS Annual Benefit debut in 2023.

Helen Maroulis (57 kg.), a 2016 Olympic champion, claimed her second Olympic bronze medal. Maroulis has competed in a record eight BTS Annual Benefit events since 2012.

In men's freestyle, Kyle Dake (74 kg.) and Aaron Brooks (86 kg.) each secured bronze. Dake, a 2020 Olympic bronze medalist, has competed in three Annual Benefit events, while Brooks made his Annual Benefit debut in 2023.

Two former international Annual Benefit participants claimed Olympic silver medals in Daichi Takatani of Japan (74 kg.) and Yuseylys Guzman Lopez of Cuba (50 kg.). Guzman Lopez and Takatani competed in Annual Benefit events in 2015 and 2017.

GOLD

WFS: Sarah Hildebrandt (USA), Amit Elor (USA)

SILVER

MFS: Daichi Takatani (JPN)

WFS: Yuseylys Guzman Lopez (CUB), Kennedy Blades (USA)

BRONZE

MFS: Kyle Dake (USA), Aaron Brooks (USA)

WFS: Helen Maroulis (USA)

Since being founded in 2005, Beat the Streets has pioneered a movement that now includes 150 individual wrestling programs, a youth league and the first girls high school league.

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