Danielle Lappage
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| Full name | Danielle Suzanne Lappage | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 24 September 1990 Olds, Alberta, Canada | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 165 cm (5 ft 5 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 63 kg (139 lb) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Wrestling | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Event | Freestyle | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Club | Burnaby Mountain Wrestling Club | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Coached by | Dave McKay | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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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
[edit]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
[edit]Lappage is a graduate of Simon Fraser University and the University of Calgary Faculty of Law.[9]
References
[edit]- ^ Glasgow 2014 profile
- ^ "Canada wins 2 more wrestling golds at Commonwealth Games". CBC Sports. 31 July 2014. Retrieved 31 July 2014.
- ^ "Danielle Lappage". olympic.ca. Canadian Olympic Committee. Retrieved 27 July 2016.
- ^ Gillespie, Kerry (23 June 2016). "Canadian wrestlers keep getting up off the mat". Toronto, Ontario, Canada: Toronto Star. Retrieved 25 June 2016.
- ^ "Canadian Wrestling Team Nominated for Rio 2016". www.wrestling.ca/. Wrestling Canada. 22 June 2016. Retrieved 16 July 2016.
- ^ "Women's Freestyle 63 kg". 22 September 2016. Archived from the original on 22 September 2016. Retrieved 9 April 2021.
- ^ Campbell, Glenn (10 February 2021). "Canadian Olympic wrestlers want to battle for medals at Summer Games in Tokyo". Calgary. Retrieved 9 April 2021.
- ^ "Wrestling Results Book" (PDF). Tokyo 2020 Olympics. Tokyo Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games. 23 April 2018. Archived from the original (PDF) on 7 August 2021. Retrieved 8 August 2021.
- ^ "Silver medal: Done. Danielle Lappage's next challenge: Final exams at University of Calgary". 16 May 2018.
External links
[edit]- Danielle Lappage at United World Wrestling
- Danielle Lappage at the International Wrestling Database
- Danielle Lappage at Olympics.com
- Danielle Lappage at Olympedia
- Danielle Lappage at Team Canada
- Danielle Lappage at the Commonwealth Games Federation (archived)
- Danielle Lappage on Instagram
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