Braxton Amos To Replace G'Angelo Hancock On Senior World Team
Braxton Amos To Replace G'Angelo Hancock On Senior World Team
G'Angelo Hancock has notified USA Wrestling of his retirement, allowing Final X runner-up Braxton Amos to represent Team USA at the World Championships.
By Taylor Gregorio, USA Wrestling - Final X runner-up Braxton Amos will represent the United States at the 97 kg in Greco-Roman at the 2022 Senior World Championships in Belgrade, Serbia, Sept. 12-18.
Amos gets the nod after Final X champion and 2021 Senior World bronze medalist G’Angelo Hancock notified USA Wrestling of his retirement on Monday.
This will mark Amos’ first Senior World Championships; however, he is already a proven force on the international scene as he is a 2021 Junior World champion in freestyle and a 2021 Junior World bronze medalist in Greco-Roman. Amos is also a Pan American silver medalist in both the Senior (2021) and Junior (2019) divisions.
Currently a college student, Amos is entering his sophomore season at the University of Wisconsin. In the 2021-22 season, Amos made the lineup as a freshman, going 16-7 in the regular with a 10th-place finish at the Big Ten Championships and an automatic bid to the NCAA Championships, where he went 1-2.
Hancock is a four-time Senior World Team member and competed at the Tokyo Olympics, where he took seventh. He was also a multiple-time age-group World Team member, representing the U.S. at the U20 and U23 Worlds. In 2016, he won bronze at the U20 World Championships. Additionally, Hancock is a 2019 Pan American Games silver medalist and a 2020 Pan Am Championships gold medalist.
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