Rademacher Wins U20 World Title
August 18, 2025 | Wrestling
SAMOKOV, Bulgaria – Justin Rademacher completed a dominant run to the gold medal – and U20 World Championship – at 97 kilograms on Monday with a 4-0 performance in the event.
The West Linn, Ore., product opened the Championships with a fall (17-8) before clinching the gold medal with three other dominant wins in Bulgaria.
Justin Rademacher is a U20 World Champion at 97 kg! ??????
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• R16: Fall (17-8) over Ibrahim Benekli (TUR)
• QF: 9-1 over Nikolaos Karavanos (GRE)
• SF: 16-5 over Konstantine Petriashvili (GEO)
• Final: 4-1 over Magomedgadzhi Magomedov (UWW)
Dominant run to gold in Samokov. pic.twitter.com/OjmG3aPwKk
With the gold medal, he is now a two-time U20 World medalist following his bronze-winning performance last year. Earlier this summer, Rademacher won titles at the U20 Pan American Championships, the Senior Pan American Championships and the U20 US Open, all at 97 kilograms.
On the mat for Oregon State, Rademacher will return to the lineup ahead of the 2025-26 season following a redshirt year in which he won the 2024 Reno Tournament of Champions. As a freshman in 2023-24, he finished as the runner-up in the 2024 Pac-12 Championships and made his first NCAA Championships appearance.
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