Canada’s Hannah Taylor is one win away from an improbable Olympic bronze medal.
The Summerside, P.E.I. wrestler beat Luisa Elizabeth Valverde Melendres of Ecuador 13-0 in a repechage on Friday to qualify for a bronze-medal bout in the women’s 57-kilogram division.
Taylor will take on American Helen Maroulis in a bronze-medal fight on Friday afternoon. Maroulis won bronze in this event thee years ago in Tokyo and took Olympic gold in Rio de Janeiro at 53-kg in 2016.
Taylor lost to three-time reigning world champion Tsugumi Sakurai of Japan in the quarterfinals. Taylor earned a repechage spot when Sakurai advanced to the final.
Taylor, 26, won silver at last year’s Pan American Games, but never has reached the quarterfinals at a world championships.
Taylor, making her Olympic debut, won three U Sports championships with Brock University from 2018-20.
