FLIN FLON REMINDER — Hunter Lee is heading back to the mat to represent Canada at the upcoming Pan Am Games in Chile.
The Flin Flon-born wrestler and multiple-time Canadian university wrestling champion will be team Canada's entrant in the 86-kilogram freestyle weight class at the event, which is currently taking place in Santiago, Chile. The games themselves started Oct. 22 and will go on until Nov. 7, with the wrestling events happening Nov. 1-4.
Lee and his weight class will compete Nov. 2 in a one-day competition, consisting of nine wrestlers from across North and South America.
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 last year.
Lee has earned medals in international tournaments and took part in last year's United World Wrestling U23 World Championships in Spain. Lee also has a budding career in mixed martial arts, where he has taken part in one amateur and one professional fight, winning both.
Most recently, Lee earned a silver medal in the 86-kilogram freestyle event at the Wrestling Canada Lutte Canadian Wrestling Championships in March. It was his finish in that tournament that determined whether he would go to the Pan Am Games - the wrestler that beat him, Alex Moore, was originally slated to go to Chile but had to pull out at the eleventh hour. As the second-place finisher, Lee was the next man up, finding out he had made the cut barely a week before the tournament was scheduled to begin.
