Kendall Cross (wrestler)

Kendall Cross ( born February 24, 1968 in Hardin, Montana) is an American wrestler and Olympic champion in 1996 in the free style bantamweight.

Career

Kendall Cross began as in the United States the majority of common at the high school with the rings. After his time at high school, he attended Oklahoma State University and was active there as a wrestler. At this university he made in which coach Joe Seary the decisive progress to a world-class wrestler. He won during his student days in the years 1988 and 1989 NCAA Division I Collegiate Championships in 1990 and finished 3rd place. These Championships are the championships of the U.S. high school sports association and are for the U.S. wrestling in general is of the utmost importance, because almost all the top American wrestlers get at the universities their need for their athletic career. It was no different at Kendall Cross.

And he was active from 1992 as a ringer in a prestigious American Wrestling Club ( Ringer club ), the Sunkist Kids in Phoenix / Arizona. There he received from the trainer James Humphrey its finishing touch. 1992, 1995 and 1996, he won for this club and the American championship of the AAU (American athletes Union) bantamweight

In 1986 Kendall Cross began his international career wrestler, when he finished 3rd at the Junior World Championships ( Juniors = age group up to 18 years old) in free style in the weight category to 56 kg body weight.

In 1990, he failed in the excretion for the world championships at Ken Chertow, but managed to qualify in 1992 for participation in the Olympic Games in Barcelona. In Barcelona he failed at his relative international inexperience and came bantamweight only on the 6th Place. Shortly before, however, he had won at the Pan American Championships with a 3rd place its first medal at an international championship.

In the years 1993 and 1994 he participated in his studies due to no major championships. But in 1996 he took a new approach and defeated in the so-called Trials ( Olympic elimination) of the two-time world champion Terry Brands and thus qualified for participation in the Olympic Games in Atlanta. In Atlanta, he defeated successively Talato Embale, Guinea, Sanshiro Abe, Japan, Ri Yong Sam, North Korea and Guivi Sissaouri, Canada and was Olympic champion in the bantamweight.

After these games Kendall Cross ended his international career Ringer. He became an assistant coach at the Okloahoma State University and recovered as a businessman his Olympic victory. He also worked for Merrill Lynch Bank.

In 2006, after ten -year break as a wrestler, he ventured a comeback. He accepted an invitation from Makhachkala in Dagestan and launched there in a comparison fight Russia against a world selection at featherweight against the Olympic champion from 2004 Mawlet Batirow and defeated this sensationally on points. In February 2007, he also launched the David Schultz Memorial in Colorado Springs and reached there at featherweight an excellent 3rd place. Whether he tries than 38 years, as an active wrestler further pursue his career, the future will tell.

Kendall Cross is now located in Colorado Springs.

International success

(OS = Olympic Games, WM = World Championship, F = free style, Ba = bantamweight, featherweight = Fe, then to 58 kg or 60 kg body weight)

Swell

Journal The wrestler, Issue 9/ 1992, pages 10 to 15 and 9/1996, pages 11 to 15
Website of the Institute for Applied Training Science of the University of Leipzig

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Homepage of Kendall Cross

List of Olympic gold medalist in wrestling

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Highschool Oklahoma State University System Phoenix (Arizona) Colorado Springs, Colorado Sergey Smal BRD (Germany) Albania Robert Pearce (wrestler) Terrence McCann Sergei Beloglazov Alireza Dabir List of Olympic medalists in Greco-Roman wrestling

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