Terrence McCann

Terrence John McCann ( born March 23, 1934 in Chicago, † June 7, 2006 in Dana Point) was an American wrestler and Olympic champion.

Career

Terry McCann grew up as the son of Irish immigrants in Chicago. In high school, he came within a school program as a 12 -year-old to wrestle. Later he attended the University of Iowa and became an exceptionally good university wrestler. He won in three years ten university title and lost in these years, only three fights. After graduating, Terry McCann went professional reasons to Tulsa, Oklahoma, married and took there on a job. He sat there in a Ringer club and the training continued, with the aim to qualify for the 1960 Olympics. From 1958 to 1960, he won three consecutive U.S. Championship of Amateur Athletic Union ( AAU) bantamweight, then to 57 kg body weight. Although he had suffered a serious knee injury for the Olympics just before the qualifying heats of the AAU, he stepped on to these struggles and qualified sovereign. At the Olympic Games, he won himself, as a victory for the usual Eastern Europeans completely unknown, consider the gold medal.

After the Olympic Games in Rome, he retired from active sport wrestler and still working successfully for many years as a coach in Tulsa and later in Chicago, where he had returned. In addition, he also worked as a functionary in the American Wrestling Federation in later years.

Terry McCann had seven children and was, until the ripe old age an avid surfer.

International success

(OS = Olympic Games, Ba = bantamweight, F = Freestyle )

National success

• 2- time NCAA Champion ( NCAA = umbrella organization of U.S. university athletes),
• 3 times NCAA All-American champion,
• 3- times U.S. champion of the AAU (AAU = Amateur Athlete Union of the USA)