Coleman Scott

Coleman Scott Lewis ( born April 19, 1986 in Waynesburg, Pennsylvania) is an American professional wrestler. He won a bronze medal in free style at featherweight at the 2012 Olympic Games in London.

Career

Coleman Scott grew up in Waynesburg on the extreme southwestern Pennsylvania and attended the local Central High School. There he also began in 1992 with the rings. As usual at the high schools, he devoted himself to that of free style. Later he attended Oklahoma State University. He now lives in Stillwater and belongs to the Gator Wrestling Club at. He also wrestled for the Sunkist Kids already in Phoenix, Arizona. Has been trained or is he two once famous wrestlers, Zeke Jones and John Smith. During his high school days he was more time champion of Pennsylvania. At a size of 1.68 meters, he wrestles at featherweight, the weight category up to 60 kg body weight.

In 2006 he was American Junior Featherweight Champion and has been used in the same year at the Junior World Championships in Guatemala City. He was injured there, but in his first fight against Jack Bond from Canada, could not continue the competition and therefore finished only 24th place. In 2008 he was winner of the NCAA Championships, the Championships of the U.S. high school sports association. Between 2008 and 2011 he also started regularly at the U.S. Championships and the elimination fights ( Trials ) for the world championships. He landed at these competitions, although always in the front of the field, but could not win it. Its main competitors were always the same: Mike Zadick, Reece Humphrey and Shawn Bunch. He came in these years, therefore, even to a single application at an international championship. That was at the Pan American Championships 2010 in Monterrey ( Mexico). There, he finished behind Alejandro Valdes Tobier (Cuba ) and James Mancini ( Canada ) in third place.

In April 2012 he started for the United States at the World Cup in Baku, a team competition. He won there in all five battles in which it was used, and thus in the individual standings by Kenichi Yumoto of Japan and Haji Aliyev of Azerbaijan. At the national level he achieved the final breakthrough, because he won at the U.S. Olympic Trials in Times Square in New York. He defeated while Reece Humphrey and Shawn Bunch in three battles each twice.

At the Olympic Games in London he won the featherweight about Lee Seung- chul ( South Korea) and Malkhaz Zarkua (Georgia), then lost to Togrul Asgarow from Azerbaijan and secured with a win over Kenichi Yumoto an Olympic bronze medal.

International success

National success

Notes

• All competitions in free style
• OS = The Olympic Games, WM = World Cup
• Featherweight weight class up to 60 kg body weight
• NCAA = North American university sports federation
• Trials = Knockout

Swell

• Journal The Ringer
• Website " Foeldeak Wrestling Database "
• Website of the U.S. Ringer Association ( www.themat.com )