New York's Yianni Diakomihalis was Team USA's most recent Cadet World Champion.  Yianni was utterly impressive from start to finish winning by tech, pin, tech, 10-5 and 6-3!

Yianni sealed the Gold medal with a 6-3 win over Japans Jintaro Motoyama.  Yiannis' fearless approach and high pace proved to be too much for the 58kg field.  Down 0-2 early in his finals match, Yianni hit a clean left side high crotch and finished for 4.  That shot ultimately was the difference in the match.

Also bringing home hardware for Team USA was Owen Webster at 85kg.  Webster won 1-1 on criteria in his Bronze medal match over.  Check out the matches and results below.  

R32: Yianni Diakomihalis TF Maksat Talkambaev (KGZ) 10-0
            R16: Yianni Diakomihalis WBF Fazil Hasanov (AZE) 0:36
            Q:     Yianni Diakomihalis TF Dmytro Mykhniuk (UKR) 10-0 
            S:      Yianni Diakomihalis DEC Soslan Guchakov (RUS) 10-5
            Final:  Yianni Diakomihalis (USA)  DEC Jintaro Motoyama (JPN) 6-3

R16: Owen Webster DEC Yaraslau Slavikouski (BLR) 8-2
            Q:     Khusanboy Rakhimov (UZB) DEC Owen Webster 4-2 
            R1:    Owen Webster DEC Shutaro Yamada (JPN) 9-0
           Bronze: Owen Webster (USA) DEC Rahid Hamidli (AZE) 1-1

Don't forget our competitors for tomorrow either:

46kg - Dylan D'emilio vs. Horst Lehr (GER)
*Lehr finished 10th at the 2015 European Championships

54kg - Daton Fix vs. Vazgen Tevanyan (ARM)
*Tevanyan was the European Champion in 2015

63kg - Jarod Verkleeren vs. Vasilii Diaconu (MDA)

76kg - Joe Grello vs. Ivan Stefanov (BUL)
*Stefanov was a bronze medalist at the 2015 European Championships

100kg - Gable Steveson vs. Georgios Georgiadis (GRE)
*Georgiadis was 10th at the European Championships