Jordan Burroughs
Ernest Jordan Burroughs ( born August 7, 1988 in Camden, New Jersey) is an American professional wrestler. He was 2011 World champion and 2012 Olympic gold medalist in free style welterweight
Career
The African American Jordan Burroughs began as a teenager in 1993 at the Winslow Township High School with the rings. His dortiger coach was Rick Koss. He focused entirely on the free style. As a high school wrestler, he won by 2005 some District and Regional Championships. Since 2006, he attended the University of Nebraska and lives in Lincoln. In 2006 he qualified for participation in the U.S. students Championship ( NCAA Championships ), where they lost at lightweight against Dustin Schlatter and retired early.
In 2007 he occupied at the NCAA Championships in the Lightweight already in third place and in 2008 he won the first time this title at lightweight. He was then employed at the Junior World Championships this year in Istanbul. He came here in the lightweight -to-point victories over Oltschas Tschinginbajew from Kazakhstan and Amit Kumar from India. But his third fight he lost to Sandor Toeszer from Hungary, with which he eliminated, finishing in tenth place. In 2009, he was injured and had to undergo several operations. For this reason he was able to complete no -offs this year. 2010 but he managed to make a comeback and he was welterweight again NCAA champion.
In 2011, Jordan Burroughs succeeded then the big breakthrough. He was USA - welterweight champion ahead of Nick Marable, Kirk White and Ryan Morningstar and continued in World Cup qualification tournament ( Trials ) with two victories over Andrew Howe by. In May 2011, he won in New York in the context of countries fighting over Aniuar Gedujew from Russia to points (1: 0, 2: 1) and in July 2011 he also won the first major international tournament, which he played as a senior, the Ukrainian Wrestlers ' Memorial in Kiev. He won there welterweight before Alibek Akbajew from Russia, Trent Paulson (USA) and Musa Murtazalijew from Armenia. Well prepared, he then drove to the World Cup this year after Istanbul. He defeated there Rochniak Dmytro from Ukraine, Denis Zargusch from Russia, Ricardo Moreno from Venezuela, Ashraf Aliyev of Azerbaijan ( 0: 1, 5: 4, 3: 0) and Sadegh Saeed Goudarzi, Iran (3: 2, 4: 1 ) and became the new world champion. A few weeks later he also won at the Pan -American Games in Guadalajara. He defeated there in the finals the Cubans Yunierki Blanco Mora with 2: 0 Rounds (3: 2, 3: 2 points).
He is so as the great U.S. hope for the Olympic Games 2012 in London.
In London, he was able to fulfill these hopes, for he was with wins over Francisco Daniel Soler Tanco in Puerto Rico, Matthew Gentry, Canada, and Sadegh Saeed Goudarzi Denis Zargusch Olympic champion.
2013 sat Jordan Burroughs at the World Championships in Budapest his winning streak continues, because he was there with wins over Gamid Dschalilow, Turkmenistan, Narsingh Pancham Yadav, India, Jabrail Hasanow, Azerbaijan, Ali Shabanov, Belarus and Essatollah Abbas Akbarizarinkolaei, Iran as early as 2011 World Champion. But the final victory over the Iranians Akbarizarinkolaei he had to fight hard, for he was almost equivalent. The main reason for the victory of Jordan Burroughs was his speed.
In his first start in an international tournament after the World Cup 2013 Jordan Burroughs suffered a surprising defeat at " Yasar Dogu - " Memorial in Istanbul in February 2014. He lost there in the semifinal against his compatriot Nicholas Marable just on points and therefore came into this tournament only to 3rd place.
International success
National success
- All competitions in free style
- OS = The Olympic Games, WM = World Cup
- Light weight, weight category up to 66 kg, welterweight, and 74 kg of body weight ( to 31 December 2013, since January 1, 2014, a new weight class division through the ringer Weltverbadn FILA )
- Trials = Knockout