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Becka Leathers

American amateur wrestler

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 25, 2026
Entity authorityQ37822847 ↗
Source-derived summary

Becka Anne Leathers (born November 19, 1996) is an American freestyle wrestler from Choctaw, Oklahoma.

Domestic career

In her youth, she was a multi-time national champion, including cadet and junior national champion.

In college, she was a WCWA national champion as a freshman at Oklahoma City University

International career

Leathers was a gold medalist at the 2017 Pan American Championships. Later that year, she was a bronze medalist at the 2017 World Wrestling Championships in the 55 kg weight class.

Leathers's other wins include the Dave Schultz Memorial, University Nationals, U.S. World Team Trials, Pan American Championships, and the Grand Prix of Spain.

She went on to coach at Beat The Streets before heading back to Choctaw, Oklahoma.

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This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Becka Leathers” as american amateur wrestler. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1996, 2017—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1996-11-19. The account is most persuasive where Becka, Leathers and American can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as american amateur wrestler. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 25, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q37822847. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1996 and 2017.

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This entry incorporates text from “Becka Leathers” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.