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Lee makes wrestling return for U23 world championships

It’s back to the mat for Hunter Lee later this week. The Flin Flon wrestler will make his world championship return for one last shot at under-23 glory.
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Hunter Lee holds up his traditional Flin Flon flag (complete with the names of his supporters from back home) following the world under-23 championships in Serbia last year.

It’s back to the mat for Hunter Lee later this week. The Flin Flon wrestler will make his world championship return in Spain for one last shot at under-23 glory.

Lee will represent Canada at the United World Wrestling (UWW) U23 World Championships in Pontevedra, Spain this week, taking part in the tournament for the last time before he ages out of the category. Lee will take part in the 86-kilogram freestyle category once again, the same international weight class he’s taken part in for most major competitions.

Lee will weigh in for the event Oct. 22 and the qualification rounds will begin later that day, with the finals and end of the repechage round taking place Oct. 23.

Hunter has not taken part in any international competition since last year’s under-23 world championship in Belgrade, Serbia, where he finished seventh in the 86-kilogram category. Since then, Lee has been focused more on his budding mixed-martial-arts (MMA) career, winning both his first MMA fight in 2021 and his professional MMA debut in May.

In preparation for the event, Lee headed to Pennsylvania for training at Lehigh RTC, a regional training centre near Philadelphia.

Lee has a long and wide-ranging list of titles to his name - a bronze medal from junior world championships in 2019, two Canadian university gold medals, a Canada West gold medal, a Canada Games gold medal, silver and bronze medals from junior Pan-American championships and many more. The Flin Flonner was a member of the Univ. of Saskatchewan Huskies wrestling team for four years until graduating earlier this year.

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