Rong Ningning

{{short description|Chinese freestyle wrestler}}

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{{Medal|Sport| Women's freestyle wrestling }}

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{{MedalCompetition|World Championships}}

{{MedalGold|2018 Budapest|57 kg}}

{{MedalSilver|2019 Nur-Sultan|57 kg}}

{{MedalCompetition|Asian Championships}}

{{MedalGold|2018 Bishkek|59 kg}}

{{MedalGold|2019 Xi'an|57 kg}}

{{Medal|Competition| Golden Grand Prix Ivan Yarygin }}

{{Medal|Gold| 2018 Krasnoyarsk | 59 kg }}

{{Medal|Competition| World U23 Championships }}

{{Medal|Silver| 2018 Bucharest | 59 kg }}

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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.{{Cite web|url=https://unitedworldwrestling.org/sites/default/files/2018-11/2018-world-championships_final-book.pdf|title=2018 World Wrestling Championships Results|website=United World Wrestling|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200414123246/https://unitedworldwrestling.org/sites/default/files/2018-11/2018-world-championships_final-book.pdf|archive-date=14 April 2020|access-date=14 April 2020}}

Career

In 2017, Rong competed in the 58{{nbsp}}kg event at the World Wrestling Championships in Paris, France where she reached the quarterfinals after defeating Jowita Wrzesień and Pooja Dhanda in earlier rounds.{{Cite web|url=https://unitedworldwrestling.org/sites/default/files/media/document/event/results/final-book_1.pdf|title=2017 World Wrestling Championships|website=United World Wrestling|url-status=live|access-date=13 January 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190501222916/https://unitedworldwrestling.org/sites/default/files/media/document/event/results/final-book_1.pdf|archive-date=1 May 2019}} 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.{{cite web|url=https://unitedworldwrestling.org/sites/default/files/2019-04/results_04_xian.pdf|title=2019 Asian Wrestling Championships Results|work=United World Wrestling|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200518232029/https://unitedworldwrestling.org/sites/default/files/2019-04/results_04_xian.pdf|archive-date=18 May 2020}} In the same year, at the World Wrestling Championships held in Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan, she won the silver medal in the women's 57{{nbsp}}kg event.{{Cite web|url=https://unitedworldwrestling.org/sites/default/files/2019-09/nur-sultan_kz_final-book_1.pdf|title=2019 World Wrestling Championships Results|website=United World Wrestling|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200412151211/https://unitedworldwrestling.org/sites/default/files/2019-09/nur-sultan_kz_final-book_1.pdf|archive-date=12 April 2020|access-date=12 April 2020}}

Rong represented China at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan. She competed in the women's 57{{nbsp}}kg event where she was eliminated in her first match.{{Cite web|title=Wrestling Results Book|url=https://olympics.com/tokyo-2020/olympic-games/resOG2020-/pdf/OG2020-/WRE/OG2020-_WRE_B99_WRE-------------------------------.pdf|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210807164330/https://olympics.com/tokyo-2020/olympic-games/resOG2020-/pdf/OG2020-/WRE/OG2020-_WRE_B99_WRE-------------------------------.pdf|archive-date=7 August 2021|access-date=8 August 2021|work=Tokyo 2020 Olympics|publisher=Tokyo Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games}}

Achievements

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rowspan=2 | 2018

|Asian Championships

|Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan

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Freestyle 59{{nbsp}}kg
World Championships

|Budapest, Hungary

|align="center" bgcolor="gold" | 1st

|Freestyle 57{{nbsp}}kg

rowspan=2 | 2019

|Asian Championships

|Xi'an, China

|align="center" bgcolor="gold" | 1st

Freestyle 57{{nbsp}}kg
World Championships

|Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan

|align="center" bgcolor="silver" | 2nd

|Freestyle 57{{nbsp}}kg

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