Amit Elor

Early life Elor was born in Walnut Creek, California, to Elana and Yair Elor, both from Ashkelon, Israel,

She is the youngest in her family and has six siblings. Her sister Ronny and brother Orry both won USA Wrestling Junior National titles (Orry was fourth in the 2016 US Greco-Roman Olympic trials in Iowa City, Iowa). Her brother Aviv took silver in the 2016 NCJA Judo Collegiate Nationals. Her brother Oshry was murdered at home at age 23 during an attempted robbery in Pleasant Hill, California in 2018. Her father Yair died in 2022 during the COVID-19 pandemic. She only spoke Hebrew until she attended a JCC preschool in Contra Costa County.

Collegiate style

During the years she was in high school, Elor won multiple high school tournaments. In her freshman year, she was 36-0 and pinned her final opponent in 20 seconds winning a California Interscholastic Federation state championship. She received the 2019 California High School Champion of Champions award. Because she was born on January 1, 2004, she missed the age cutoff to qualify to compete in the 2020 Tokyo Games by one day. She defeated Zhamila Bakbergenova of Kazakhstan in a gold medal match. A month later, she won a gold medal in the 72kg event at the 2022 U23 World Wrestling Championships held in Ponteveda, Spain. She also won the gold medal in the U20 World Championships in Sofia. Also in 2023, she was named the Women's Wrestler of the Year by USA Wrestling for the second consecutive year. In 2024, at the Pan American Wrestling Olympic Qualification Tournament held in Acapulco, Mexico, Elor earned a quota place for the United States for the 2024 Summer Olympics held in Paris. She qualified for the Olympics at the 2024 U.S. Olympic trials held in State College, Pennsylvania.

Going into the 2024 Olympics, she had not lost an international match, in any age group, since 2019. She had won eight world titles in three years and had compiled a 37-0 record, outscoring her opponents by a margin of 322-16.

2024 Paris Olympics Elor won the gold medal for the United States at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris in Women's freestyle wrestling 68 kg at the Grand Palais Éphémère in Champ de Mars. At 20 years of age, she was the youngest female wrestler ever to represent the United States at the Olympics.

She defeated 2023 reigning world champion Buse Tosun Çavuşoğlu of Turkey in the first round (10-2), three-time European U23 champion Wiktoria Chołuj of Poland in the second round (8-0), Pak Sol-gum of North Korea in the semi-finals (10-0), and 2021 world champion Meerim Zhumanazarova of Kyrgyzstan in the finals (3-0). She became the youngest U.S. wrestler ever, male or female, to win an Olympic gold medal.

2025 Elor competed in the World Team Trials in Louisville, Kentucky on May 16–17.

Championships and achievements Freestyle wrestling: 2019 Cadet World Championships – 3rd (69 kg) 2021 Cadet World Championships – 1st (69 kg) 2021 Junior World Championships – 1st (68 kg) 2022, 2023 Junior World Championships – 1st (72 kg) 2022 Zouhaier Sghaier Ranking Series – 8th (72 kg) 2022, 2023 Senior World Championships – 1st (72 kg) 2022, 2023 U23 World Championships – 1st (72 kg) 2022 World Cup – 4th (72 kg) 2023 Pan American Championships – 1st (72 kg) 2024 Summer Olympics – 1st (68 kg) Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu (she has also been a Brazilian jiu-jitsu practitioner): Purple belt 2021 BJJBET Grand Prix – 1st (68 kg)

International freestyle wrestling record

Res. Record Opponent Score Date Event Location

Win 41–1

Paris, France Win 40–1

Win 39–1

Win 38–1

Win 37–1

Tirana, Albania Win 36–1

Win 35–1

Win 34–1

Win 33–1

Belgrad, Serbia Win 32–1

Win 31–1

Win 30–1

Win 29–1

Amman, Jordan Win 28–1

Win 27–1

Win 26–1

Win 25–1

Buenos Aires, Argentina Win 24–1

Win 23–1

Win 22–1

Win 21–1

Coralville, US

Win 20–1

Pontevedra, Spain Win 19–1

Win 18–1

Win 17–1

Belgrade, Serbia Win 16–1

Win 15–1

Win 14–1

Win 13–1

Sofia, Bulgaria Win 12–1

Win 11–1

Win 10–1

9–1

Tunis, Tunisia 9–1

Win 9–1

Ufa, Russia Win 8–1

Win 7–1

Win 6–1

Budapest, Hungary Win 5–1

Win 4–1

Win 3–1

Sofia, Bulgaria Loss 2–1

Win 2–0

Win 1–0

Personal life Elor is a dog lover, likes to cook,