USA's Tamyra Mensah-Stock (red) wrestles China's Zhou Feng in their women's freestyle 68kg wrestling quarter final match during the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games at the Makuhari Messe in Tokyo on Aug 2, 2021. (JACK GUEZ / AFP)

CHIBA, Japan - American Tamyra Mensah-Stock won gold in the women's freestyle light heavyweight wrestling at the Tokyo Olympics on Tuesday.

Nigeria's Blessing Oborududu took the silver medal and Ukraine's Alla Cherkasova and Kyrgyzstan's Meerim Zhumanazarova claimed bronzes.