Dorothy Yeats

Dorothy Yeats
Personal information
Nationality Canadian
Born (1993-07-29) 29 July 1993[1]
Montreal, Quebec, Canada[1]
Height 164 cm (5 ft 5 in)[1]
Weight 69 kg (152 lb)[1]
Sport
Sport Freestyle wrestling
Club Quebec Wrestling Academy
Medal record
Representing  Canada
Women's wrestling
World Championships
2012 Strathcona County67 kg
Commonwealth Games
2014 Glasgow69 kg
Pan American Games
2015 Toronto69 kg
Youth Olympic Games
2010 Singapore70 kg
Golden Grand Prix Ivan Yarygin
2015 Krasnoyarsk69 kg
Updated on 29 July 2013.

Dorothy Yeats (born 29 July 1993)[2] is a Canadian wrestler and Commonwealth Games champion. She won gold at the 2014 Commonwealth Games.

Daughter of five-time Olympian Doug Yeats, who won gold at the 1979 Pan American Games,[1] Dorothy participated at the 2010 Summer Youth Olympics in Singapore. She won the gold medal in the girls' freestyle 70 kg event, defeating Jinju Moon of South Korea in the final. In 2012, she faced Adeline Gray of USA in the gold medal match at the world championship. Although she was defeated, the 19-year-old walked away with a silver medal. She in also the 2012 and 2013 Junior World Champion at 67 kg.[3]

In July 2016, she was officially named to Canada's 2016 Olympic team.[4][5]

Championships

  • 9X Canadian National Champion (60 kg–69 kg)
  • 2009 Canada Games Champion at 65 kg
  • 2010 Junior Pan American Champion & Cadet Pan American Champion at 63 kg
  • 2010 Youth Olympic Games Champion at 70 kg
  • 2011 Commonwealth Champion at 63 kg
  • 2012 Junior World Champion
  • 2012 Senior World Silver Medalist
  • 2013 Junior World Champion
  • 2014 Commonwealth Games Champion
  • 2014 University World Champion
  • 2015 Pan American Games Champion (69 kg)

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 "Dorothy Yeats". olympic.ca. Canadian Olympic Committee. Retrieved 4 June 2015.
  2. ↑ http://wrestling.ca/athlete/dorothy-yeats
  3. ↑ "Wrestling – Women's Freestyle 70 kg – Competition Sheet (With Results)" (PDF). Singapore Youth Olympic Games Organising Committee. 16 August 2010. Archived from the original (PDF) on 25 May 2012. Retrieved 25 October 2010.
  4. ↑ Gillespie, Kerry (23 June 2016). "Canadian wrestlers keep getting up off the mat". Toronto, Ontario, Canada: Toronto Star. Retrieved 25 June 2016.
  5. ↑ "Canadian Wrestling Team Nominated for Rio 2016". www.wrestling.ca/. Wrestling Canada. 22 June 2016. Retrieved 16 July 2016.
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