Christine Nordhagen
Christine North Hagen ( born June 26, 1971 in Grande Prairie, Alberta) is a former Canadian wrestler. She was six -time world champion and Olympian 2004.
Career
The former athlete Christine Nordhagen, called since her marriage Nordhagen - Vierling, began at the age of 20 years with the rings, a program was started to train women to wrestle at the University of Calgary. Women's wrestling, at which it is fought only in free style, emerged only in the 1980s. The coach of this program were Mitch Ostberg and Leigh Vierling, who later husband of Christine Nordhagen was. At a size of 1.71 meters North Christine Hagen was a very strong wrestler who are always in the high weight classes (up to 68/70 kg 72 kg and 75 kg body weight) was launched
In 1992, the first Canadian Championships was conducted in women's wrestling and Christine Nordhagen immediately won her first Canadian championship, which they added nine more by 2001.
The international career of it began in the 1993 World Championship in Larvik / Norway. She has attended there in the class up to 70 kg body weight equal to an excellent 2nd place. In the final, she was defeated by the Vice World Champion 1992 Yayoi Urano from Japan. A year later, in 1994, she became world champion in Sofia in the same weight class for the first time. In the final, she defeated while the Russian Elmira Kurbanowa.
In 1995, Christine Nordhagen at the World Championships in Moscow in the weight class up to 70 kg body weight behind Lise Golliot from France, Elmira Kurbanowa and Nina Englich of Germany only the 4th Place. This small failure they compensated by the fact that they each became world champion in the next three years 1996, 1997 and 1998. 1996 in the weight class up to 70 kg and after a reorganization of weight classes from 1997 in the weight class up to 68 kg body weight. She made it so outstanding competitors as Galina Ivanova from Russia, Lise Golliot, Nina Englich, Yayoi Urano, Sandra Bacher from the United States and United Stéphanie of Germany behind.
At the World Championship 1999 in Bode / Hildursborg, Sweden, North Christine Hagen moved in the highest weight class of women wrestling (up to 75 kg body weight) and it lost to in the semi-final against Japan's Kyoko Hamaguchi on points. You could be achieved 3rd place in the final bill only. But in the years 2000 and 2001 showed again that she is the best wrestler in the world in the most difficult weight class woman, for she was again in these years in Sofia World Champion. They already won the 2001 its sixth world title. In 2001 she defeated thereby, inter alia, Edita Witkowska from Poland and 2001 Anita Schätzle from Germany ( 10:4 techn. Dots) and Toccara Montgomery of the United States ( 4-1 techn. Dots).
In 2002, Christine Nordhagen suffered a lengthy injury that made it impossible for her to start in 2002 and at the 2003 World Cup. Only in 2004 was it possible so hard to train her again that they can participate in the Olympic Games in Athens, where the first woman wrestling was on the program. Your great shape for the years 2000 and 2001 they had but no longer able to reach all. She defeated in the Olympic tournament in Athens in the weight class up to 72 kg body weight ( the weight class classification had been changed again), although inter alia Toccara Montgomery and Anita Schätzle, reached after a defeat against the Chinese Xu Wang but only the 5th Place.
After these Olympics ended North Christine Hagen, the mathematics teacher, sports, and dancing, and in Valhalla Centre, Alberta, lives, her career as an active wrestler. She is now Ringer coach at the University of Calgary and also since 2006 coach of the Canadian national team of juniors.
In September 2006, Christine Nordhagen was recorded as the first woman in the FILA International Wrestling Hall of Fame.
International success
(OS = Olympic Games, WM = World Championship, BW = body weight)
Canadian Championships
Christine North Hagen was in the years 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2001 and 2001 Canadian champion; in 2003 she won behind Ohenewa Akuffo and Pam Wilson 3rd place.
Swell
- Database of the Institute for Applied Training Science at the University of Leipzig,
- Journal The Ringer,
- Website of the Canadian Association Ringer