{"id":398486,"date":"2023-08-16T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-08-16T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=398486"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T14:00:00","slug":"Aden-Attao-suits-up-for-World-Champs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/Aden-Attao-suits-up-for-World-Champs\/","title":{"rendered":"Aden Attao suits up for World Champs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Aden Attao, CNMI son and multi-awarded wrestler, is suiting up for the big stage as he heads to the 2023 U20 World Championships in Amman, Jordan from Aug. 14 to 19.<\/p>\n<p>Attao is competing this Friday, Aug. 18. and Saturday, Aug. 19, in the Greco-Roman portion.<\/p>\n<p>The 18-year-old member of the U.S. World Team is in the hunt for a gold medal this time around after getting a bronze medal last year.<\/p>\n<p>With his training, he said \u201cTraining has been the same\u2014just as hard, just as often, and just working on crafting my perfect techniques, so they will work when I need them to.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Along with bagging a gold of his own, he said he hopes the team as a whole would do a good job. \u201cUSA Greco has never been great; however I do think this team could pull off some good ones and make some big moves toward making USA Greco a powerhouse again,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>With a bronze medal in the 2022 U20 World Championships in Sofia, Bulgaria, he was the only U.S. Greco-Roman representative to make the medal stand. The U.S. team finished in 12th place in the Greco-Roman division at the 2022 U20 World Championships with 39 total team points and one bronze medalist who was Attao.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Just last month, the Boise, Idaho, native won gold in the U20 Pan-American Championships in Santiago, Chile; and gold and silver in the 2023 USA Wrestling Junior National Championships in Fargo, North Dakota.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Weighing in at 130 kg, he is favored to bag a podium finish in the heavyweight category.<\/p>\n<p>Attao, who is an incoming freshman at Oregon State University, said this World\u2019s Championship is a precursor to his collegiate wrestling campaign, with many more competitions on the horizon.<\/p>\n<p>The son of Jesse Attao and Stacey Hammar, Aden last visited the CNMI in 2011 when he was 6 years old. He is the grandson of Jesus and Ramona Attao.<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 480px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/imgupload\/a676e354ac3046d5319bdb738cf8d5b7.jpg\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Aden Attao is suiting up for Team USA in the 2023 U20 World Championships in Amman, Jordan set from Aug. 14 to 19 and is on the hunt for a gold medal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>-CONTRIBUTED PHOTO<\/p>\n<p><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aden Attao, CNMI son and multi-awarded wrestler, is suiting up for the big stage as&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-398486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398486","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=398486"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398486\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=398486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=398486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=398486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}