Tricia Saunders
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| Born | February 21, 1966 Ann Arbor, Michigan, U.S. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Country | United States | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sport | Wrestling | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Event | Freestyle | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Tricia Saunders (born as Patricia McNaughton; February 21, 1966) is an American amateur wrestler and pioneer the sport of women's freestyle wrestling. During her freestyle wrestling career, she won five FILA Wrestling World Championships medals, including four gold and one silver, never lost to an American opponent, and won eleven U.S. national titles.
Saunders was the first woman to be inducted to the National Wrestling Hall of Fame as a Distinguished Member in Stillwater, Oklahoma and the first American woman to be inducted into FILA's International Wrestling Hall of Fame in Istanbul, Turkey.