Photo: Tony Rotundo

Team USA's women put two medals on the board in Astana on Wednesday and set up a big Thursday. Helen Maroulis and Dymond Guilford both won bronze, Adaugo Nwachukwu reached the 62kg final, and three more Americans are still alive for medals.

Helen Maroulis Wins World Medal No. 9

Maroulis beat Kazakhstan's Nilufar Raimova 5-2 for bronze at 57kg. She got there the hard way, losing 4-2 to Japan's Sena Nagamoto in the quarterfinals, then pinning Ecuador's Luisa Valverde Melendres in 2:43 in repechage after Nagamoto reached the final.

It's Maroulis' ninth World Championships medal (four gold, two silver, three bronze) and her 12th World and Olympic medal overall.

Dymond Guilford Takes Bronze at 76kg

Guilford beat Turkey's Kadriye Kocak Aksoy 7-2 in the bronze-medal match. Her only loss was a 6-4 quarterfinal against Ukraine's Anastasiya Alpyeyeva. She pinned Uzbekistan's Ozoda Zaripboeva in 1:53, teched Nigeria's Damola Ojo 12-2, and teched Belarus' Anastasiya Zimiankova 12-0 in repechage.

Adaugo Nwachukwu Is Into the Final

Nwachukwu has been the most dominant American in Astana so far. She teched Turkey's Sevim Akbas 10-0 and Sweden's Sara Lindborg 11-1, then beat Bulgaria's Bilyana Dudova 5-2 in the semifinals. She'll face Japan's Nonoka Ozaki for gold at 62kg. Ozaki beat Iowa State's Esther Kolawole, wrestling for Nigeria, 2-1 in the other semifinal.

Rodriguez and Wieser Wrestle for Bronze

Cristelle Rodriguez (53kg) beat Russia's Viktoriia Vaulina 6-4 and Poland's Roksana Zasina on criteria, 1-1, before Ecuador's Lucia Yepez teched her 10-0 in the semifinals.

Precious Wieser (72kg), who replaced Amit Elor on the team, beat Turkey's Buse Cavusoglu Tosun 9-4 and Kyrgyzstan's Nurzat Nurtaeva 3-2, then was pinned at 5:38 by Poland's Wiktoria Choluj in the semifinals.

Kennedy Blades Gets a Second Life

Blades pinned Germany's Laura Koehler in 1:39, then was pinned by Kyrgyzstan's Meerim Zhumanazarova in the quarterfinals. Zhumanazarova reached the final, so Blades is back in repechage against India's Srishti. A win puts her in a bronze-medal match.

Thursday's Schedule (ET)

Thursday is also the first day of men's freestyle, with Bo Bassett and Kyle Snyder opening at 1:30 AM ET, and Everest Leydecker (55kg) and Abigail Nette (59kg) start their runs. Follow every American live on our Team USA Senior Worlds tracker.