Annabelle Ali
Annabel Laure Ali ( born March 4, 1985 in Garoua / Cameroon ) is a wrestler from Cameroon. It is Olympian in Beijing in 2008 and London 2012.
Career
Annabel Laure Ali is an African wrestler who has made the leap into the advanced world class. She started in Cameroon with the rings, but later went to France and is a member of the sports club INSEP Paris. Trained it is mainly of Isaac Mpia. At a size of 1.76 meters, it is struggling in the heaviest weight class of women wrestling, which at 72 kg body weight has its limit.
Her debut on the international wrestling mat she gave in 2005 at the Commonwealth Championships in Stellenbosch / South Africa. She won it in front of the Indian Jyoti. In 2007, she started in Baku for the first time at a World Cup. They met while in her first fight on the multiple world champion Kyoko Hamaguchi Japanese, against which it showed a very good fight and narrowly on points (1:2 rounds, 1:3 points) defeated. Since Kyoko Hamaguchi but did not reach the final, Annabel Laure Ali resigned and came on the 19th Place.
2008 she won the African Cup of Nations in Tunis behind Amarachi Obiajunwa, Nigeria and Sabrine Mathelouthi, Tuniesien 3rd place their first international medal, namely a bronze medal. In the same year she also managed to qualify by good results in tournaments in Edmonton and Haparanda for the Olympic Games in Beijing. In Beijing, she then lost her first fight against Agnieszka Wieszczek - Kordus from Poland and came in 16th place. In 2008, she started also at the World Championships in Tokyo, but even there she lost her first fight against Alena Starodubzewa from Russia and landed on the 12th Place.
In 2009 she was in Casablanca for the first time Africa champion. It pointed Sonja Coetzee from South Africa and Enass Moustafa from Egypt to the places. In August 2009, she was in Obzor / Bulgaria World Champion in Beach Wrestling in the weight category over 70 kg body weight before the Bulgarian Elina Wasewa. This title has not the status of a world title in Olympic wrestling, the victory of Annabel Laure Ali in this competition is nevertheless remarkable. At the 2009 World Championships in herring / Denmark she managed their first victory in such a championship. She won over Daria Karpenko from Kazakhstan. Your second fight but lost to Svetlana Sajenko from the Unkraine, thus retired, finishing in 9th place.
In January 2010, it reached a very good 2nd place in the strong Golden Grand Prix in Krasnoyarsk. She lost there only in the final against Ekaterina Bukina, but let her good wrestlers like Naranchimeg Gelejamts from Mongolia and Stanka Slatewa Christowa, a multiple world champion from Bulgaria, behind. In June 2010, Annabel Laure Ali in Cairo for the second time African champion. At the World Cup 2010 in Moscow, she gave the local favorite Ekaterina Bukina a very big battle they narrowly lost 1:2 with rounds at 3:3 points - tie. However, since Ekaterina Bukina missed the finals, she did not come in the consolation round and ended up in 11th place. In October 2010, she then won the silver medal at the Commonwealth Games in New Delhi behind Ohenewa Akuffo of Canada.
2011, Annabel Laure Ali in Dakar before Amarachi Obiajunwa for the third time African champion. In September 2011 she competed at the World Championships in Istanbul, reaching there in 5th place, the best result of her career. On the way to this success they initially lost against Ekaterina Bukina, then defeated Naranchimeg Gelegjamts and the Junior World Champion Cynthia Vanessa Vescan from France, before she lost the battle for the bronze medal against Wassilisa Marsalijuk from Belarus. This 5th place at the same time, she managed to qualify for the 2012 Olympic Games in London.
In March 2012, Annabel Laure Ali had in Marrakech in the final of the African Cup of Senegalese Oliviane Bassene bow. At the Olympic Games 2012 in London, she came to a victory over Josiane Patricia Soloniaina from Madagascar, then lost to Stanka Slatewa Christowa, but did not wrestle in the consolation round, where they lost to but again Wassilisa Marsalijuk. So you finished 7th.
After a longer pause, she started in 2013 at the Jeux de la Francophonie in Nice and was there behind the Canadian Veronica Keefe and Cynthia Vanessa Vescan to 3rd place.
International success
Notes
- All competitions in free style
- OS = The Olympic Games, WM = World Cup
Swell
- Journal The Ringer
- Website " Foeldeak Wrestling Database "