{{Short description|Canadian wrestler (born 1992)}} {{Infobox athlete | image = Justina Di Stasio at 2015 Pan Am Games.jpg | caption = Justina Di Stasio holds her silver medal she won at the 2015 Pan American Games in Toronto. | nationality = Canadian | sport = Freestyle wrestling | club = Burnaby Mountain wrestling club | birth_date = {{birth date and age|df=y|1992|11|22}} | birth_place = Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada | height = 171 cm | weight = 75 kg | turnedpro = | highestranking = | updated = | medaltemplates = {{MedalSport|Women's freestyle wrestling}} {{MedalCountry| {{CAN}} }} {{MedalCompetition|World Championships}} {{MedalGold|2018 Budapest|72 kg}} {{MedalBronze|2017 Paris|75 kg}} {{MedalCompetition| Commonwealth Games }} {{MedalGold| 2022 Birmingham | 76 kg }} {{MedalCompetition|Pan American Games}} {{MedalGold|2019 Lima|76 kg}} {{MedalSilver|2015 Toronto|75 kg}} {{MedalCompetition|Pan American Championships}} {{MedalGold|2020 Ottawa|76 kg}} {{MedalGold|2017 Lauro de Freitas|75 kg}} {{MedalBronze|2022 Acapulco|76 kg}} {{MedalBronze|2023 Buenos Aires|76 kg}} }} '''Justina Di Stasio''' (born November 22, 1992) is a Canadian wrestler<ref>{{cite web|url=http://olympic.ca/team-canada/justina-di-stasio/|title=Justina Di Stasio|year=2015|work=Team Canada|publisher=Canadian Olympic Team Official Website|access-date=23 June 2015}}</ref> of Italian and Cree descent.<ref name=":0">{{Cite news|url=https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/coquitlam-wrestler-says-eating-vegetables-and-wrestling-boys-key-to-her-world-title-1.4877953|title=Coquitlam wrestler says eating vegetables and wrestling boys key to her world title|last=Larsen|first=Karin|date=October 25, 2018|work=CBC News|access-date=October 26, 2018}}</ref>
==Career== In 2015, Di Stasio won a gold medal in the 75 kg weight class at the annual Pan American Wrestling Championships. She also won the 2015 Dave Schultz Memorial.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://wrestling.ca/athlete/justina-di-stasio|title=Justina Di Stasio|work=Wrestling Canada Lutte}}</ref> Later in 2015, on home soil, Di Stasio won silver at the 2015 Pan American Games in Toronto.<ref>{{cite news|last=McGran|first=Kevin|date=17 July 2015|title=Canada wins two more Pan Am gold medals in women's wrestling|url=https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/panamgames/2015/07/17/canada-grabs-second-pan-am-gold-medal-in-womens-wrestling.html|work=Toronto Star|location=Toronto, Ontario, Canada|access-date=26 October 2018}}</ref>
In 2018, at the World Wrestling Championships in Budapest, Di Stasio won gold in the 72{{nbsp}}kg event.<ref>{{cite news|date=24 October 2018|title=Canada's Justina Di Stasio wins gold at world wrestling championships|url=https://www.ctvnews.ca/sports/article/canadas-justina-di-stasio-wins-gold-at-world-wrestling-championships/|work=Canadian Press|location=Toronto, Ontario, Canada|access-date=26 October 2018}}</ref> She spoke about pride in her Indigenous roots, thanking her Cree mother, from the Norway House Cree Nation in Manitoba, for working to give her opportunities leading to her success.<ref name=":0" />
Di Stasio won one of the bronze medals in her event at the 2022 Pan American Wrestling Championships held in Acapulco, Mexico.<ref name="hildebrandt_earns_title_2022">{{Cite news |last=Burke |first=Patrick |date=7 May 2022 |title=Hildebrandt earns seventh Pan American Championships wrestling title |work=InsideTheGames.biz |url=https://www.insidethegames.biz/articles/1122881/panam-wrestling-hildebrandt-seventh |access-date=8 May 2022}}</ref><ref name="results_book_pan_american_wrestling_championships_2022">{{Cite web |title=2022 Pan American Wrestling Championships Results Book |url=https://cdn.uww.org/s3fs-public/2022-05/results_05_acapulco.pdf?VersionId=B5lbo37Y0twxEy6yBGRa8vikoyKJLzoq |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220509223006/https://cdn.uww.org/s3fs-public/2022-05/results_05_acapulco.pdf?VersionId=B5lbo37Y0twxEy6yBGRa8vikoyKJLzoq |archive-date=9 May 2022 |access-date=9 May 2022 |website=United World Wrestling}}</ref> She won the gold medal in the women's 76{{nbsp}}kg event at the 2022 Commonwealth Games held in Birmingham, England.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Berkeley |first=Geoff |date=6 August 2022 |title=Phogat completes Commonwealth Games hat-trick with another wrestling gold |work=InsideTheGames.biz |url=https://www.insidethegames.biz/articles/1126690/phogat-third-commonwealth-games-title |access-date=6 August 2022}}</ref><ref name="wrestling_competition_summary_commonwealth_games_2022">{{Cite web |title=Wrestling Competition Summary |url=https://b2022-pdf.microplustimingservices.com/WRE/2022-08-06/WRE-------------------------------__C96_1.0.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220806191350/https://b2022-pdf.microplustimingservices.com/WRE/2022-08-06/WRE-------------------------------__C96_1.0.pdf |archive-date=6 August 2022 |access-date=6 August 2022 |website=2022 Commonwealth Games}}</ref> She lost her bronze medal match in the 76{{nbsp}}kg event at the 2022 World Wrestling Championships held in Belgrade, Serbia.<ref name="susaki_morikawa_earn_japanese_double_2022">{{Cite news |last=Burke |first=Patrick |date=14 September 2022 |title=Susaki and Morikawa earn Japanese double at World Wrestling Championships |work=InsideTheGames.biz |url=https://www.insidethegames.biz/articles/1128068/world-wrestling-champs-2022-day-5 |access-date=15 September 2022}}</ref><ref name="results_book_world_wrestling_championships_2022">{{Cite web |title=2022 World Wrestling Championships Results Book |url=https://cdn.uww.org/s3fs-public/2022-09/final-book-2022-senior-world-championships_compressed.pdf?VersionId=zoTz_Ra8zK5EkVhfrZuDG5THXf4.3ik. |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220918183512/https://cdn.uww.org/s3fs-public/2022-09/final-book-2022-senior-world-championships_compressed.pdf?VersionId=zoTz_Ra8zK5EkVhfrZuDG5THXf4.3ik. |archive-date=18 September 2022 |access-date=18 September 2022 |website=United World Wrestling}}</ref>
Di Stasio won the silver medal in the women's 76{{nbsp}}kg event at the Grand Prix de France Henri Deglane 2023 held in Nice, France.<ref name="grand_prix_henri_deglane_results_book_2023">{{Cite web |title=Grand Prix de France Henri Deglane 2023 Results Book |url=https://cdn.uww.org/s3fs-public/2023-01/results_01_nice.pdf?VersionId=JRwl6aj396SBu4z5fue7A0lWVoSOgrwt |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230129102012/https://cdn.uww.org/s3fs-public/2023-01/results_01_nice.pdf?VersionId=JRwl6aj396SBu4z5fue7A0lWVoSOgrwt |archive-date=29 January 2023 |access-date=4 February 2023 |website=United World Wrestling}}</ref> She won one of the bronze medals in the women's 76{{nbsp}}kg event at the 2023 Grand Prix Zagreb Open held in Zagreb, Croatia.
She won one of the bronze medals in her event at the 2023 Pan American Wrestling Championships held in Buenos Aires, Argentina.<ref name="pan_american_wrestling_championships_results_book_2023">{{Cite web |title=2023 Pan American Wrestling Championships Results Book |url=https://d3u2kdyvfaxwhl.cloudfront.net/s3fs-public/2023-05/final-book-senior-panam-champ-buenos-aires-2023.pdf?VersionId=yecp8rLNiqq7ACmM2ZKBSs__yD7nb2yA |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240226203320/https://d3u2kdyvfaxwhl.cloudfront.net/s3fs-public/2023-05/final-book-senior-panam-champ-buenos-aires-2023.pdf?VersionId=yecp8rLNiqq7ACmM2ZKBSs__yD7nb2yA |archive-date=26 February 2024 |access-date=26 February 2024 |website=United World Wrestling}}</ref> In 2024, at the Pan American Wrestling Olympic Qualification Tournament held in Acapulco, Mexico, she earned a quota place for Canada for the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris, France.<ref name="pan_american_qualified_nocs_2024">{{Cite web |title=Qualified NOCs at 2024 Pan American Wrestling Olympic Qualification Tournament |url=https://d3u2kdyvfaxwhl.cloudfront.net/s3fs-public/2024-03/2nd_phase_acapulco_qualified_nocs.pdf?VersionId=7daWt.sjVf3DcCmRgpMQwttDuVARZ8Sx |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240304175337/https://d3u2kdyvfaxwhl.cloudfront.net/s3fs-public/2024-03/2nd_phase_acapulco_qualified_nocs.pdf?VersionId=7daWt.sjVf3DcCmRgpMQwttDuVARZ8Sx |archive-date=4 March 2024 |access-date=4 March 2024 |website=United World Wrestling}}</ref><ref name="pan_american_olympic_tournament_results_book_2024">{{Cite web |title=2024 Pan American Wrestling Olympic Qualification Tournament Results Book |url=https://d3u2kdyvfaxwhl.cloudfront.net/s3fs-public/2024-03/results_02_acapulco_tq.pdf?VersionId=JF17JQRQNzYOgzYC1imqNPlT1Awo0vIQ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240304172342/https://d3u2kdyvfaxwhl.cloudfront.net/s3fs-public/2024-03/results_02_acapulco_tq.pdf?VersionId=JF17JQRQNzYOgzYC1imqNPlT1Awo0vIQ |archive-date=4 March 2024 |access-date=4 March 2024 |website=United World Wrestling}}</ref> She defeated Saidy Chávez of Honduras and she then secured the quota place by defeating Linda Machuca of Argentina.<ref name="pan_american_olympic_tournament_results_book_2024"/> She competed in the women's 76{{nbsp}}kg event at the Olympics.<ref name="wrestling_results_book_summer_olympics_2024">{{Cite web |title=Wrestling Results Book |url=https://olympics.com/OG2024/pdf/OG2024/WRE/OG2024_WRE_B99_WRE-------------------------------.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240811181048/https://olympics.com/OG2024/pdf/OG2024/WRE/OG2024_WRE_B99_WRE-------------------------------.pdf |archive-date=11 August 2024 |access-date=12 August 2024 |website=2024 Summer Olympics}}</ref> ==Awards== * '''Women's Wrestling Hall of Fame''' ** WWHOF Award (1 time) *** Amateur Wrestler of the Year (2024)
== References == {{Reflist}}
==External links== * {{IWD|name=Justina Renay di Stasio}} * {{UWW|di-stasio-justina-renay|Justina Renay DI STASIO}} * {{2022 Commonwealth Games profile|45111|Justina di STASIO}} * {{COC profile|name=Justina Di Stasio}} * [https://wrestling.ca/justina-di-stasio/ Justina Di Stasio] at Wrestling Canada Lutte
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