Kennedy Blades
American wrestler (born 2003)
Kennedy Alexis Blades (born September 4, 2003) is an American wrestler. She currently competes in the middleweight division of Real American Freestyle (RAF), where she is the current RAF Women's Middleweight Champion.
She won the silver medal in the women's 76 kg event at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris, France. She also won a bronze medal in the women's 68 kg event at the 2025 World Championships.
Biography
Blades is from Chicago, Illinois. She and her younger sister, Korina, started taking Brazilian jiu-jitsu classes when she was four years old. She later switched to wrestling at age seven, joining a small club in the area. As there were not many girls she could wrestle against, she often trained against boys. She won several championships competing against boys as a youth wrestler, including becoming the first female to win the IKWF Illinois state title, in 2016.
Blades and her sister, also a wrestler, attended Wyoming Seminary in Pennsylvania, the first American high school to have a girls wrestling program.
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