{"id":177270,"date":"2026-11-08T18:11:56","date_gmt":"2026-11-08T22:11:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/yolayni-rosado-makes-history-with-gold-for-dr-in-olympic-wrestling-dakar-2026\/"},"modified":"2026-11-08T18:11:56","modified_gmt":"2026-11-08T22:11:56","slug":"yolayni-rosado-makes-history-with-gold-for-dr-in-olympic-wrestling-dakar-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/national\/yolayni-rosado-makes-history-with-gold-for-dr-in-olympic-wrestling-dakar-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Yolayni Rosado makes history with gold for DR in Olympic wrestling Dakar 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Yolayni Rosado makes history: First gold medal for the Dominican Republic in Olympic wrestling<\/h2>\n\n<p>The Dominican delegation at the IV Youth Olympic Games Dakar 2026 celebrates a historic feat. Wrestler Yolayni Rosado Valerio was crowned Olympic champion in the 65-kilogram beach wrestling category, after prevailing with a 3-1 score against the Spaniard Gabriela Eningo in the grand final.<\/p>\n\n<p>This triumph not only represents the first medal for the country in the current edition of the games, but it also marks an unprecedented milestone: Rosado becomes the first Dominican athlete in the discipline of Olympic wrestling to reach the podium at an Olympic event.<\/p>\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">An impeccable path to gold<\/h2>\n\n<p>The Dominican athlete&#8217;s performance was impeccable, closing her participation with an undefeated record of five consecutive victories at Saly West beach. Her path to gold was as follows:<\/p>\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>2-1 triumph against the representative from India, Antra Antra.<\/li><li>4-2 victory over the Kenyan Jemimah Wanjal.<\/li><li>3-2 triumph in the first match against the Spaniard Gabriela Eningo.<\/li><li>3-1 victory in the semifinals against the Mongolian Anujin Erkhembaatara.<\/li><li>Definitive 3-1 triumph in the final against Eningo.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Rosado&#8217;s gold is a sign of the constant growth of our athletes. Hearing the national anthem on Senegalese soil is a source of pride that will remain etched in the history of Dominican sports.<\/p><cite>Alofoke Deportes<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Legacy at the Youth Olympic Games<\/h2>\n\n<p>With this gold medal, the Dominican Republic raises its total medal count in the history of the Youth Olympic Games to eight, adding to its tally since its debut in Singapore 2010. Yolayni Rosado now shares the select group of Dominican athletes who have achieved gold in this competition, joining figures of the stature of Luguel\u00edn Santos and Deury Corniel.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yolayni Rosado makes history: First gold medal for the Dominican Republic in Olympic wrestling The Dominican delegation at the IV Youth Olympic Games Dakar 2026 celebrates a historic feat. Wrestler Yolayni Rosado Valerio was crowned Olympic champion in the 65-kilogram beach wrestling category, after prevailing with a 3-1 score against the Spaniard Gabriela Eningo in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12809],"tags":[17364,1271,901,17450],"class_list":{"0":"post-177270","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-national","7":"tag-dakar-2026","8":"tag-dominican-republic","9":"tag-fight","10":"tag-yolayni-rosado"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177270","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177270"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177270\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}