Katy wrestler Tamyra Mensah-Stock is in the Olympic record books as the first Black woman to win an Olympic wrestling Gold Medal for the United States.
The top-seeded Mensah-Stock bested second-seeded Nigerian wrestler Blessing Oborududu 4-to-1 with two take-downs in the first period to win the women's 68-kilogram freestyle final.
After the meet, she spoke emotionally of her father who died when she was in 10th grade, killed in a car crash on the way home from a wrestling meet.
Mensah-Stock's mother says she ordered both of her daughters to get into sports as a means of staying out of trouble as teenagers. Both chose wrestling and competed at Morton Ranch High School in Katy.
Mensah-Stock and her twin sister Tarkyia both went to college on wrestling scholarships.
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