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Jillian Gallays

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Jillian Gallays
Personal information
Full nameJillian Alice Gallays
Born (1986-10-20) October 20, 1986 (age 39)
St. Brieux, Saskatchewan, Canada
Height165 cm (5 ft 5 in)
Weight53 kg (117 lb)
Sport
Country Canada
SportWrestling
Coached byShane Bradley
Medal record
Women's freestyle wrestling
Representing  Canada
World Championships
Bronze medal – third place2014 Tashkent53 kg

Jillian Alice Gallays (born October 20, 1986) is a Canadian retired freestyle wrestler.[1][2] She won the bronze medal at the 53kg event at the 2014 World Wrestling Championships,[3] and is a 2016 Olympian.

Early life and education

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Gallays was born in St. Brieux, Saskatchewan. She was diagnosed as having dyslexia at a young age.[2] She was raised by a single mother. She attended the University of Saskatchewan where she obtained a degree in Kinesiology and competed on the Saskatchewan Huskies wrestling team, on which she was the captain. She was a two-time CIS National Champion at U of S.[4]

Career

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She is a six-time Canadian National Champion. In 2014, competed at the 2014 World Wrestling Championships in the 53-Kilogram division, winning her first round match against Nadzeya Shushko of Belarus by technical fall, her round of 16 match against Lee Shin-hye of South Korea by fall, and her quarterfinal match against Yuliya Blahinya of Ukraine before losing her semifinal match to eventual winner, Saori Yoshida of Japan. Qualifying for the repechage, she won her bronze medal match by defeating Natalia Malysheva of Russia.

In July 2016, she was officially named to Canada's 2016 Olympic team.[5][6] She lost her first round match to Jong Myong-suk of North Korea. She placed 19th in the women's featherweight freestyle event at the 2016 Summer Olympics.[1] She retired from wrestling after the 2016 Olympics.[7]

Post-career

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After retiring from wrestling, Gallays began working as a strength and conditioning coach at Craven SPORT Services. In 2024, she left Craven and opened her own strength and conditioning centre and began a part-time job selling running shoes for the company Brainsport.[7] Also in 2024, she enrolled in a Master of Management Analytics program at the Smith School of Business.[8]

Personal life

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Gallays currently resides in St. Catharines, Ontario,[2] having moved there from Saskatoon in 2014.[9] Her nickname is "Jilla Killa".

References

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  1. 1 2 "Jillian Gallays Bio, Stats, and Results". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Archived from the original on April 18, 2020. Retrieved January 21, 2019.
  2. 1 2 3 "Jillian Gallays". Team Canada - Official Olympic Team Website. June 22, 2016. Retrieved January 21, 2019.
  3. ↑ "Women's freestyle World medalists". InterMat. Archived from the original on September 13, 2018. Retrieved January 21, 2019.
  4. ↑ "About Jillian Gallays". jilliangallays.com. Archived from the original on June 25, 2020. Retrieved June 24, 2020.
  5. ↑ Gillespie, Kerry (23 June 2016). "Canadian wrestlers keep getting up off the mat". Toronto, Canada: Toronto Star. Retrieved 25 June 2016.
  6. ↑ "Canadian Wrestling Team Nominated for Rio 2016". www.wrestling.ca. Wrestling Canada. 22 June 2016. Retrieved 16 July 2016.
  7. 1 2 "Olympic wrestler brings high-performance attitude to Brainsport". community.brainsport.ca. June 11, 2024. Retrieved May 4, 2025.
  8. ↑ "From the Olympic stage, to life after". www.csc-sask.ca. November 8, 2024. Retrieved May 4, 2025.
  9. ↑ "Canadian Jillian Gallays pursues Olympic wrestling dream". therecord.com. 6 November 2014. Retrieved June 24, 2020.
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