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Extra · The Record

Amit Elor: The Golden Grand Slam at 20

World titles at U17, U20, U23 and senior, then Olympic gold in Paris — the youngest American wrestler, man or woman, to win one. Only Yui Susaki had completed the set before her. 41 international wins, one loss, in 2019.

41–1international record
78%wins ended early (32)
375–19points, 2019 to Paris

Amit Elor was born in Walnut Creek, California, on 1 January 2004 and started wrestling at four. At the 2019 Cadet World Championships in Sofia she lost 3–1 to Japan's Honoka Naka and took bronze. It is the only loss in her international record.

In 2021 she won the cadet and junior world titles in the same summer. In 2022, at 18, she became the youngest senior world champion in American wrestling history, and within three months held the junior, under-23 and senior world titles at once. In 2023 she won all three again, plus the Pan American championship. No other wrestler has won junior, under-23 and senior titles in two consecutive years.

72kg is not an Olympic weight, so for Paris she cut to 68kg. She gave up two points in four bouts and beat Meerim Zhumanazarova of Kyrgyzstan 3–0 in the final, on 6 August 2024, at 20. She was the youngest American wrestler, male or female, to win Olympic gold, and with it completed what is called the Golden Grand Slam: world titles at cadet, junior, under-23 and senior level, and the Olympics. Yui Susaki of Japan is the only other wrestler to have done it.

The figures below are what that record looks like when it is counted.

Figure 1 · The clock

From her only loss to Olympic gold in five years

Each point is a dated result, placed at her age on the day.

started at 4Cadet bronze: her only lossU17 + U20 world titles3 world titles in 3 months, at 18…and againOlympic gold15161718192021AGE ON THE DAY OF THE RESULT
Figure 2 · The set

Every age group, then the Olympics

Each corner is a title she has won, with the year. A full hexagon is not a rating: it means every one of the six has been won.

Olympics2024Senior Worlds2022 · 2023U23 Worlds2022 · 2023U20 Worlds2021 · 22 · 23U17 Worlds2021Pan-Am2023
Figure 3 · How she wins

Four in five wins never reach the final whistle

Her 41 international wins by how they ended. A technical fall ends the bout at a 10-point lead; a fall is a pin.

WINS BY HOW THEY ENDED22109Technical fall 22 · 54%Fall 10 · 24%Decision 9 · 22%

One loss: 1–3 to Honoka Naka, Cadet Worlds, Sofia, 2019.

Figure 4 · Year by year

Three world titles in three months, two years running

World and Olympic medals by year and age group.

20192021202220232024U17 WorldsBGU20 WorldsGGGU23 WorldsGGSenior WorldsGGOlympicsGOnly years with a world or Olympic medal are shown. Her 2023 Pan American gold is not shown.

What the count shows

Of her 41 international wins, 32 ended before time, 22 by technical fall and 10 by fall. Of the nine that went the distance, the closest was a 3–2 win over Japan's Masako Furuichi at the 2022 senior world championships. From 2019 to Paris, United World Wrestling counted 375 points scored and 19 conceded. In four Olympic bouts she conceded two.

Since Paris

In June 2025 she withdrew from Final X, the US world team qualifier, saying she had found out she was anaemic and was carrying injuries. In May 2026, three months after becoming a mother, she returned and won the US World Team Trials challenger tournament, and made her third senior world team at 72kg. On 19 October 2026 USA Wrestling announced that injury would keep her out of the World Championships in Astana.

How this was checked

Birth, titles and the match-by-match international record are from her Wikipedia entry, whose record table follows United World Wrestling results; the method of each win is counted from that table. One win, the 10–0 2022 senior world final against Zhamila Bakbergenova, carries no method in the table and is counted as a technical fall from its score. Two 2022 forfeits are not counted. The Olympic record, the "youngest" claim and the 375–19 points are from Team USA (6 August 2024), which cites United World Wrestling.

The 2025 withdrawal is from NBC Sports; the 2026 return from United World Wrestling (16 May 2026); the 2026 world team from FloWrestling; the 2026 withdrawal from USA Wrestling (19 October 2026). Ages are calculated from her date of birth and the date of each result. US domestic results are not included.