Chiba, Japan - History continues to be made at the 2020 Summer Olympic Games thanks to a recent accomplishment on the mat, where women’s wrestling had a first on Tuesday.

Tamyra Mensah-Stock (28) is now the first Black American women’s wrestler to win Olympic gold, taking the victory over Nigeria's Blessing Oborududu 4-1 in the women's 68-kilogram freestyle lightweight wrestling final.

She is now not just an Olympic hero, but a cultural hero as well.

As an African-American woman she is the first, but hopefully will not be the last in a sport that’s rarely seen competitors that look like her.

Mensah-Stock was the No. 1 seed going into Tokyo and cruised through the first two rounds before putting up a decent sweat in the semifinals.

Her dominance continued as she was able to considerably dominate Oborududu, the tournament's No. 2 seed, for the gold medal.

In recent decades, women of color have achieved some success in the wrestling world. Take, most recently, Randi Miller's bronze medal win at the '08 Beijing games. Or Iris Smith, who won a world title in 2005, and Toccara Montgomery, who took home gold at the Pan-Am Games in 2003.

"They paved the way for me," Mensah-Stock said in an interview with the Associated Press.

With this win, Mensah-Stock is only the second US woman to win a gold in wrestling, next to Helen Maroulis, who took home gold at the Rio games in 2016.

Tamyra's Olympic victory has proven that it's not impossible for Black women to succeed in wrestling. But the sport has always been an unlikely place to find women of color participating.

She hopes that the exposure and attention she's gained from excelling in the sport will show young Black girls that there is future success to be had through more representation in wrestling.

"These young women are going to see themselves in a number of ways and they're going to look up there and go, I can do that...I can see myself," she explained.

Her final match was also groundbreaking in that her opponent was a Black African woman from Nigeria, and the first wrestler from the country – male or female – to win a medal on the mat.

Mensah-Stock has Ghanaian heritage through her father, which also made her final match even more special.

"I'm like, 'Oh my gosh, look at us representing," Mensah-Stock said. "It's so freaking awesome. You're making history, I'm making history. We're making history. So it meant a lot."