Overview
- Annika Wendle took 53 kg bronze after trailing 0–3, pinning 2013 European champion Roksana Zasina of Poland.
- Naemi Leistner, 21, earned bronze at 62 kg by defeating Ruzanna Mammadova of Azerbaijan.
- Anastasia Blayvas earlier won bronze at 55 kg, a non‑Olympic class that drew only eight athletes in Tirana.
- For Wendle, it is a third European bronze after 2020 and 2021 and her first major medal since tearing her ACL at Paris 2024.
- The championships continue through Sunday in Tirana following an early wipeout for Germany’s Greco‑Roman men.