Daniel Cormier

Daniel Cormier ( born March 20, 1979 in Lafayette, Louisiana) is an American professional wrestler. He is Olympian in 2004 and 2008 and winner of a bronze medal at the 2007 World Championships in free style at light heavyweight.

Career

Daniel Cormier started during the visit of Lafayette Northern High School in 1989 with the rings. His coach was there Stefan Latief. In high school he also played football and was part of the All-Star time his school. At Colby Community College, which he attended from 1997 to 1999, but he then decided to just have to wrestle. At Colby CC Steve lamp was his coach. He then studied at Oklahoma State University sociology. He finished his studies in 2001. At this university he was of Olympic champion John Smith ( wrestler), one of the most renowned U.S. coach cared. When John Smith coach at Gator WC ( Wrestling Club ) in Stillwater was, he followed them, Stillwater and lives since then there.

Daniel Cormier has had to overcome a number of serious setbacks in his life. 1986 his father was murdered in 2003 and his three -month-old daughter was killed in a car accident.

As a high school wrestler, he was in the years 1995 to 1997 three students master the State of Illinois. 1998 and 1999 he was the NCAA Junior Champion of the United States in the middleweight division in free style.

The international Ringer career of Daniel Cormier began in 1995, when he at the Junior World Championship ( Cadets ) in the weight category to 83 kg body weight behind Yuri Patrikeyev, then starting yet for Russia and Stanislaw Prochodowski from Belarus to 3rd place in Greco- Roman style finished.

By the year 2001, then it has no other results more known. In this year he was placed 2nd in free style at middleweight after Cael Sanderson at the NCAA Championships ( US-amerik. students Championship). He struggled now only in free style. In the years 2001 and 2002, he finished each the 3rd place at the U.S. qualification for the World Championships ( Tials ). From 2003 to 2008 he was six. Consecutive U.S. champion in free style at light heavyweight

As Senior Daniel Cormier made ​​his first appearance at an international championship in 2002. He was born in Maracaibo winner in the light heavyweight at the Pan American Games in front of Wilfredo Morales Suarez from Cuba and Dean Schmeichel from Canada here. In 2003 he also won at the Pan American Games in Santo Dominge before Adrian Antoine Jaoude from Brazil and Wilfredo Morales Suarez. In the same year he won at the World Championships in New York in the light heavyweight a very good 5th place. He defeated among others, thereby Hakan Koc from Turkey, but lost Alireza Heidari from Iran, which thus prevented to win a medal by Daniel Cormier.

In 2003 Daniel Cormier also in the so-called " Absolute Championships " in Moscow, an unofficial world championship rematch tournament, but that was just occupied at least as good as the real World Cup. He finished second in the tournament behind Georgi Gogschelidse from Georgia and Çakiroglu Fatih from Turkey an excellent 3rd place, ahead of Krassimir Kotschew from Bulgaria and Wadym Tassoew from Ukraine.

At the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens Daniel Cormier won the light heavyweight about Radovan Valach from Austria and Bartolomeej Bartnicki from Poland, but lost to Chadschimurad Gazalow from Russia and in the fight for the bronze medal against Alireza Heidari again almost 2:3 techn. Points and therefore only came on the 4th Place.

In the years 2005 and 2006, Daniel Cormier has stagnated in his performances due to private problems. He came at the 2005 World Championships in Budapest only on the 11th and at the 2006 World Cup in Guangzhou only on 21 place in the light heavyweight division. After overcoming these problems, he showed up at the 2007 World Championships in Baku again in greatly improved form, where she won with four wins a World Cup bronze medal. This he achieved after his semi-final defeat against Saeed Abrahimi from Iran with a narrow 2-1 round win over Andrei Krupnijakow from Kyrgyzstan.

For a small tragedy was for Daniel Cormier participation in the 2008 Olympics in Beijing, to which he had traveled with high hopes. The day before his first fight he suffered a collapse in Beijing, caused probably by the strong detraining in order to achieve the fight limit of 96 kg for the light heavyweight and had to be admitted to the intensive care unit of a hospital. There he recovered, although relatively quickly, but the Olympics were over for him.

International success

Note: OS = Olympic Games, WM = World Championship, F = free style, GR = Greco-Roman style, light heavyweight to 96 kg Heavy weight up to 120 kg body weight (bw )

National success

Note: all the competitions in free style, NCAA Championships = U.S. students Championship,

Swell

  • Database of the Institute for Applied Training Science at the University of Leipzig,
  • Journal The Ringer,
  • Website of the U.S. Ringer Association
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