Agustín Destribats
Argentine wrestler (born 1997)
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Agustín Alejandro Destribats (born 30 October 1997) is an Argentine freestyle wrestler who competes at 65 kilograms.[1] He has represented Argentina at the 2020 Summer Olympics, at the 2023 Pan American Games, earning bronze, and the 2018 and 2022 editions of the South American Games, earning silver and gold respectively.[2]
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| Full name | Agustín Alejandro Destribats | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 30 October 1997 Córdoba, Argentina | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 170 cm (5 ft 7 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Country | Argentina | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sport | Amateur wrestling | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight class | 65 kg | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Club | Latina | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Coached by | Leonardo Torres | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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A bronze medalist at the 2020 Individual World Cup, Destribats also claimed the gold medal in the 2025 edition of the Pan American Championships, where he is a five-time medalist.[3]
Career
2013–2019
Destribats started wrestling when he was nine years old in a local club that offered savate, capoeira, and wrestling. In 2013 he won the South American Youth Games in both, freestyle and Greco-Roman and in 2014 he won gold at the U17 Pan American Championships in freestyle.[4]
In 2015, he won his first major title at the senior level, earning a gold medal at the South American Championships in the 57 kilogram category at 18 years old.[5]
In 2016, Destribats moved up to 61 kilograms and won his second consecutive senior South American Championship, also claiming a U20 Pan American title.[5][6] In 2017, he claimed three South American Championship gold medals (two at the U20 level in both styles and one senior title in freestyle),[7][8] two gold medals (freestyle and Greco) at the U20 Pan American Championships[9][10] and a silver medal at the Brazil Cup, moving up to 65 kilograms for the latter.[11]
In 2018, he claimed a silver medal at the South American Games.[10] In 2019, he claimed bronze medals at the Pan American Championships[12] and at the Henri Deglane Challenge.[13]
2020–2021
In 2020, Destribats competed once again at the Pan American Championships, earning his first medal at the tournament with a bronze and only falling to two-time age-group World Champion Yianni Diakomihalis.[14]
In the following days, Destribats competed at the Pan American Olympic Qualification Tournament. After advancing to the semifinals, he upset U17 World Champion and three-time NCAA champion Zain Retherford from the United States, pinning him early in the first period and qualifying to represent Argentina at the 2020 Summer Olympics.[15][14][16] He became the first male Argentine wrestler to qualify for the Olympic Games since Paulo Ibire in 1996.[17][18] Destribats did not compete in the championship match due to a knee injury.[19]
After the Olympic Games were postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Destribats trimmed down to 61 kilograms and claimed a bronze medal from the 2020 Individual World Cup, notably defeating U23 World champion Ulukbek Zholdoshbekov and World medalist Rahul Aware in the process.[20]
Back up at 65 kilograms in 2021, Destribats placed fifth at the Grand Prix de France Henri Deglane, first at the Dan Kolov & Nikola Petrov Grand Prix and seventh at the Pan American Championships, before competing at the 2020 Summer Olympics in August. He was eliminated in the first round by World medalist from Hungary Ismail Musukaev.[21]
2022–2024
To start off 2022, Destribats repeated as a bronze medalist at the Pan American Championships.[22] Placing fourth and third at the Tunis Ranking Series and the Ion Cornianu & Ladislau Simon Memorial, respectively, he then made his first World Championship appearance in the 2022 edition. After defeating World Champion from Georgia Beka Lomtadze, Destribats fell to three-time World Champion from Azerbaijan Haji Aliyev.[23] He then claimed the gold medal at the 2022 South American Games held in Asunción, Paraguay.[24]
To start off 2023, Destribats placed seventh, tenth and ninth at the Grand Prix de France Henri Deglane, the Grand Prix Zagreb Open and the Ibrahim Moustafa Ranking Series, respectively, before claiming bronze medals at the Dan Kolov & Nikola Petrov Grand Prix and the Pan American Championships.[25][26]
Destribats then placed fifth and nineteenth at the Kaba Uulu Kozhomkul & Raatbek Sanatbaev Memorial & Ranking Series and the Polyák Imre & Varga János Memorial & Ranking Series, respectively, before placing fourteenth in his second appearance at the World Championships.[27][28] To close out the year, he claimed a bronze medal for Argentina at the 2023 Pan American Games.[29]
After a tenth place finish at the Grand Prix Zagreb Open to start off 2024, Destribats upgraded to a silver medal at the Pan American Championships, defeating two foreign opponents before forfeiting in the finals to Nick Lee due to injury.[30] In the following days, he competed at the Pan American Olympic Qualification Tournament held in Acapulco, Mexico hoping to qualify for the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris, France.[31] He was eliminated by Cuba's two-time World Championship medalist Alejandro Valdés in the first round.[31]
2025
After an eleventh place finish at the Muhamet Malo Ranking Series to start off 2025, Destribats became Argentina's first ever male to win the gold medal at the Pan American Championships, defeating two-time champion of the tournament Joseph McKenna from the United States in the finals.[3]
