The two most notable names to miss this summer’s U.S. Olympic wrestling team will return to international competition at the UWW Senior World Championships in early October.
Olympic medalists and world champions Jordan Burroughs and J’den Cox earned their spots in the Oslo, Norway, tournament with wins at USA Wrestling’s Senior World Team Trials on Sunday.
Burroughs, 33 and with his fourth child on the way, made his 10th senior World or Olympic team but first at 79kg. He moved up a weight class for the first time in his career after Kyle Dake, who beat Burroughs in the Olympic Wrestling Trials final in April, chose to compete at the 2021 Worlds, an option all Tokyo Olympic medalists were given by USA Wrestling.