Justina Di Stasio

Justina Di Stasio (born November 22, 1992) is a Canadian wrestler^[1] of Italian and Cree descent.^[2]

Justina Di Stasio

Justina Di Stasio holds her silver medal she won at the 2015 Pan American Games in Toronto.
Personal information
Nationality	Canadian
Born	(1992-11-22) 22 November 1992 (age 32) Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada
Height	171 cm (5 ft 7 in)
Weight	75 kg (165 lb)
Sport
Sport	Freestyle wrestling
Club	Burnaby Mountain wrestling club
Medal record Women's freestyle wrestling Representing  Canada World Championships 2018 Budapest 72 kg 2017 Paris 75 kg Commonwealth Games 2022 Birmingham 76 kg Pan American Games 2019 Lima 76 kg 2015 Toronto 75 kg Pan American Championships 2020 Ottawa 76 kg 2017 Lauro de Freitas 75 kg 2022 Acapulco 76 kg 2023 Buenos Aires 76 kg

Career

In 2015, Di Stasio won a gold medal in the 75 kg weight class at the annual Pan American Wrestling Championships. She also won the 2015 Dave Schultz Memorial.^[3] Later in 2015, on home soil, Di Stasio won silver at the 2015 Pan American Games in Toronto.^[4]

In 2018, at the World Wrestling Championships in Budapest, Di Stasio won gold in the 72 kg event.^[5] She spoke about pride in her Indigenous roots, thanking her Cree mother, from the Norway House Cree Nation in Manitoba, for working to give her opportunities leading to her success.^[2]

Di Stasio won one of the bronze medals in her event at the 2022 Pan American Wrestling Championships held in Acapulco, Mexico.^[6][7] She won the gold medal in the women's 76 kg event at the 2022 Commonwealth Games held in Birmingham, England.^[8][9] She lost her bronze medal match in the 76 kg event at the 2022 World Wrestling Championships held in Belgrade, Serbia.^[10][11]

Di Stasio won the silver medal in the women's 76 kg event at the Grand Prix de France Henri Deglane 2023 held in Nice, France.^[12] She won one of the bronze medals in the women's 76 kg event at the 2023 Grand Prix Zagreb Open held in Zagreb, Croatia.

She won one of the bronze medals in her event at the 2023 Pan American Wrestling Championships held in Buenos Aires, Argentina.^[13] In 2024, at the Pan American Wrestling Olympic Qualification Tournament held in Acapulco, Mexico, she earned a quota place for Canada for the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris, France.^[14][15] She defeated Saidy Chávez of Honduras and she then secured the quota place by defeating Linda Machuca of Argentina.^[15] She competed in the women's 76 kg event at the Olympics.^[16]

Awards

• Women's Wrestling Hall of Fame
  • WWHOF Award (1 time)
    • Amateur Wrestler of the Year (2024)