{"id":4080,"date":"2017-03-04T00:09:56","date_gmt":"2017-03-04T05:09:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/athleteactivation.com\/?p=4080"},"modified":"2022-01-31T12:27:04","modified_gmt":"2022-01-31T17:27:04","slug":"athletes-journey-gold-medalist-wrestler-braxton-stone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/athleteactivation.com\/athletes-journey-gold-medalist-wrestler-braxton-stone\/","title":{"rendered":"Athlete&#8217;s Journey with Gold Medalist Wrestler, Braxton Stone"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Athlete&#8217;s Journey with Gold Medalist Wrestler &#8211; Braxton Stone<\/h2>\n<div class=\"fusion-video fusion-youtube\" style=\"--awb-max-width:700px;--awb-max-height:394px;\"><div class=\"video-shortcode\"><div class=\"fluid-width-video-wrapper\" style=\"padding-top:56.29%;\" ><iframe title=\"YouTube video player 1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/hkURYBEr6GQ?wmode=transparent&autoplay=0\" width=\"700\" height=\"394\" allowfullscreen allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<p>In this video, we captured Braxton&#8217;s journey before and after her injury and her road back to success.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Braxton_Stone-Papadopoulos\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Braxton Stone-Papadopoulos<\/a> (born June 23, 1995) is a Canadian wrestler. Braxton has been training using the Athlete Activation System at Laylor Performance Systems in Toronto for the past 2 years.<\/p>\n<p>She won a bronze medal at the 2014 Commonwealth Games. She has been in competition with fellow world champion teammate Justine Bouchard. She has been ranked number 2 in the world.<\/p>\n<p>She initially earned a black belt in taekwondo by age 10. She started wrestling at age 10 and was coached initially by her uncle Stan Tzogas who had coached at the Olympic level.<\/p>\n<p>She won the bronze medal at the 2014 Commonwealth Games. Following the games, she made the decision to move up a weight class to 63-kg after she experienced difficulty reaching the 58-kg weight limit.<\/p>\n<p>At the 2015 Pan American Games she won the gold medal in 63kg category, defeating Katerina Vidiaux of Cuba 7-3.<\/p>\n<p>In September 2015 Stone-Papadopoulos qualified for the <a href=\"http:\/\/olympic.ca\/team-canada\/braxton-stone-papadopoulos\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro<\/a> after placing fifth in the 63kg category at the senior world championships.<\/p>\n<p>She&#8217;s one of <a href=\"https:\/\/athleteactivation.com\/athletes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">many athletes<\/a> who has been drafted &amp; found success by dominating their sport.<br \/>\n<em><br \/>\nVideo Credits: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.teamimpact.ca\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Team Impact<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/49northwrestling.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">49 North Wrestling<\/a>, Pan Am Games<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Athlete&#8217;s Journey with Gold Medalist Wrestler &#8211; Braxton Stone In this video, we captured Braxton&#8217;s journey before and after her [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4082,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[65,71,158,159,72],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Athlete&#039;s Journey with Gold Medalist Wrestler, Braxton Stone - Athlete Activation System<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"In this video, we captured Braxton&#039;s journey before and after her injury and her road back to success. 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