19 Facts About Carol Huynh

Carol Huynh is a retired Canadian freestyle wrestler.

Carol Huynh is the 2010 Commonwealth Games and two-time Pan American Games champion.

Carol Huynh has achieved success at the world championships where Huynh has totaled one silver and three bronze medals.

Carol Huynh was elected to the United World Wrestling Hall of Fame in 2013.

Carol Huynh broke onto the international scene as a wrestler beginning at the World Championships in 2000 where she won bronze.

Carol Huynh continued to build on this success at the next World Championships in 2001 where she won silver.

Carol Huynh would have to wait four more years till she would medal again at the Worlds when she won a bronze again in 2005.

Carol Huynh competed in the 48 kg weight class at the 2008 Summer Olympics, winning a gold medal.

Carol Huynh is the second ever female medallist for Canada in Olympic wrestling, after Tonya Verbeek, the 2004 Athens freestyle silver medallist.

Carol Huynh was the first gold medallist in women's wrestling for Canada.

Carol Huynh was named to the 2012 Summer Olympics team in London for Canada.

On 8 December 2015, Carol Huynh was named Canada's assistant chef de mission for Rio Olympics.

Carol Huynh was awarded the Order of Sport, marking her induction into Canada's Sports Hall of Fame in 2017.

Since 2015 and as of December 2020, Carol Huynh has served as Wrestling Canada's Next Gen coach based out of Calgary.

Carol Huynh was born in British Columbia to parents who were ethnic Chinese refugees from northern Vietnam.

Carol Huynh's father was born in China, but moved to Vietnam when he was three; her mother was born in Vietnam.

Carol Huynh started studies at Simon Fraser University in 1998, then moved to the University of Calgary in 2007.

Carol Huynh married Dan Biggs, a social worker and former wrestler, in 2005.

Carol Huynh was coached by Paul Ragusa, former National team member and Olympian, as well as Leigh Vierling, ex-husband of former World Champion Christine Nordhagen.