Rong Ningning

Rong Ningning (, born 5 October 1997) is a Chinese freestyle wrestler. She won the gold medal in the women's 57 kg event at the 2018 World Wrestling Championships held in Budapest, Hungary.

Career

In 2017, Rong competed in the 58kg event at the World Wrestling Championships in Paris, France where she reached the quarterfinals after defeating Jowita Wrzesień and Pooja Dhanda in earlier rounds. In the quarterfinals she was defeated by Marwa Amri who went on to win the silver medal in that event. Rong then entered the repechage where she won her match against Iryna Chykhradze of Ukraine but lost her bronze medal match against Aisuluu Tynybekova of Kyrgyzstan.

In 2018, at the Golden Grand Prix Ivan Yarygin 2018 held in Krasnoyarsk, Russia, she won the gold medal in the women's 59 kg event.

In 2019, she won the gold medal in the women's 57 kg event at the 2019 Asian Wrestling Championships held in Xi'an, China. In the same year, at the World Wrestling Championships held in Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan, she won the silver medal in the women's 57kg event.

Rong represented China at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan. She competed in the women's 57kg event where she was eliminated in her first match.

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