Jenna Burkert


Jenna Rose Burkert is a retired American freestyle wrestler and currently an amateur wrestling coach. She won one of the bronze medals in the women's 55 kg event at the 2021 World Wrestling Championships held in Oslo, Norway.

Career

Burkert competed in the girls' freestyle 60kg event at the 2010 Summer Youth Olympics held in Singapore.
Burkert also competed in the women's 60kg event at the 2014 World Wrestling Championships in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, in the women's 59kg event at the 2018 World Wrestling Championships in Budapest, Hungary and in the women's 57kg event at the 2019 World Wrestling Championships in Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan.
In 2019, Burkert won the silver medal in the women's 57kg event at the Pan American Games held in Lima, Peru. In 2021, she won one of the bronze medals in the women's 55kg event at the World Wrestling Championships held in Oslo, Norway.
In 2024, she announced retirement from wrestling. In May 2024, she announced her join to the Bixby Wrestling High School as a coach. In April 2025, she was named the head girl's wrestling coach at Bixby High School.

Achievements

YearTournamentLocationResultEvent
2019Pan American GamesLima, Peru2ndFreestyle 57kg
2021World ChampionshipsOslo, Norway3rdFreestyle 55kg