Danielle Lappage Explained

Danielle Lappage
Full Name:Danielle Suzanne Lappage
Birth Date:1990 9, df=y
Birth Place:Olds, Alberta, Canada
Height:165 cm
Weight:63 kg
Sport:Wrestling
Event:Freestyle
Club:Burnaby Mountain Wrestling Club
Coach:Dave McKay

Danielle Suzanne Lappage (born 24 September 1990)[1] is a wrestler competing for Canada. She won a gold medal in the 63 kg freestyle at the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow.[2] She finished in 5th place at the 2014 World Wrestling Championships.

Sports career

In 2010 Lappage was crowned world junior champion at 63 kg.[3]

In July 2016, she was officially named to Canada's 2016 Olympic team.[4] [5] At the 2016 Summer Olympics, she finished in 16th place after losing to Yuliya Tkach in the qualification round.[6]

She represented Canada at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan.[7] She competed in the women's freestyle 68 kg event.[8]

Personal life

Lappage is a graduate of Simon Fraser University and the University of Calgary Faculty of Law.[9]

Notes and References

  1. http://results.glasgow2014.com/athlete/wrestling/1032631/d_lappage.html Glasgow 2014 profile
  2. News: 31 July 2014 . Canada wins 2 more wrestling golds at Commonwealth Games . . 31 July 2014.
  3. Web site: Danielle Lappage . olympic.ca . . 27 July 2016.
  4. News: Gillespie . Kerry . 23 June 2016 . Canadian wrestlers keep getting up off the mat . . Toronto, Ontario, Canada . 25 June 2016.
  5. Web site: Canadian Wrestling Team Nominated for Rio 2016 . 22 June 2016 . www.wrestling.ca/ . Wrestling Canada . 16 July 2016.
  6. Web site: 22 September 2016 . Women's Freestyle 63 kg . 9 April 2021 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160922183740/https://www.rio2016.com/en/wrestling-standings-wr-womens-freestyle-63-kg . 22 September 2016.
  7. Web site: Campbell . Glenn . 10 February 2021 . Canadian Olympic wrestlers want to battle for medals at Summer Games in Tokyo . 9 April 2021 . Calgary . en.
  8. Web site: Wrestling Results Book . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20210807164330/https://olympics.com/tokyo-2020/olympic-games/resOG2020-/pdf/OG2020-/WRE/OG2020-_WRE_B99_WRE-------------------------------.pdf . 7 August 2021 . 8 August 2021 . Tokyo 2020 Olympics. . 23 April 2018.
  9. Web site: Silver medal: Done. Danielle Lappage's next challenge: Final exams at University of Calgary . 16 May 2018.

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