Kristie Marano
Kristie Marano ( born January 24, 1979 in Albany, New York) is an American wrestler and two-time world champion.
Career
Kristie Marano comes from a Ringer family. Her father Conrad Stenglein and her brothers Matt and Joshua were also wrestlers. With the struggle she began in 1995 at the Colonie Central High School in Albany, after they had previously begun at the age of 5 years with this sport judo and operation up to the age of 16. After high school she attended Hudson Valley Community College and Piles Peak Community College. She studied physics.
When rings were or are her main coach Andi Momm, Archie Randall, Terry Steiner and Link Davis. She was also a member of the New York Athletic Club and coached for a long time at the Training Center of the U.S. Ringer Association in Colorado Springs. Early in her career she started taking her birth name Kristie Stenglein. In 1999, she married Chad Marano and took the family name Marano. Under this name they then had their greatest sporting successes for almost ten years. Even before that, in 1998, she gave birth to her first daughter Kayla. You noticing her pregnancy so late that it was still full before birth until a few weeks in training and participated in competitions. Even after the birth, she was already 10 days later on the wrestling mat. Later separated Kristie Marano of Chad Marano again and married Link Davis. This year, she also gave birth to her second daughter Lilly. She launched since 2009 under the name Kristie Davis.
As already mentioned, operational Kristie Marano as her name Kristie Stenglein first judo. She was so successful that she was in 1996 at the U.S. Olympic excretion ( Trials ) for the 1996 Summer Olympics to participate in Atlanta. The qualification did not succeed there, however. With this sporting background was 1996 U.S. vice - champion in the women and launched this year already at the World Championships in Sofia in the weight class up to 75 kg and was there right away (as Kristie Stenglein ) behind the Chinese Liu Dong Feng before and Sha Ling- Li from Taiwan, Anna Schamowa from Russia and Monika Kowalski from Poland Vice World Champion.
1997 Kristie Marano in San Juan (Puerto Rico) winner at the Pan American Championships, again in the weight class up to 75 kg. In the Women's World Cup in Clermont- Ferrand, she won in the weight category up to 75 kg after beating Vanessa Civit from France, Saida Riabi from Tunisia and Anna Schamowa after a defeat in the final against Kyoko Hamaguchi of Japan turn the silver medal. In 1998, she participated in Fredrikstad / Norway for the first time at a World Youth Championship and won the title there before May Bente Eriksen from Norway and Edyta Witkowska from Poland. In the same year she was then in Poznan for the third consecutive time World silver medalist in the women in the weight class up to 75 kg. On the way to defeating Vera Bazantowa from the Czech Republic and Nina Englich from Germany. Only in the final battle she succumbed again against Kyoko Hamaguchi. The second place was Kristie Marano faithful also in the 1999 World Cup in Swedish soil. There, too, she came to victories over May Bente Eriksen, Jelena Jirnowa sus Russia, Jana Panowa from Kyrgyzstan and Elvira Barriga from Austria and one defeat in the final against Kyoko Hamaguchi to this place.
In 2000, Kristie Marano joined in the weight class up to 68 kg. The change in this weight class brought her immediate success, as it was this year at the World Championships in Sofia in this weight class after beating Anna Schamowa, Tomeo Miyamoto from Japan, Xiomara Guevara from Venezuela and Lise Golliot - Legrand from France for the first time world champion at the women. A title, for she had truly earned in a row after four vice - world champion titles.
In the following years the results were not easy to achieve for Kristie Marano. Women's wrestling was more and more established and the competition grew. In 2001, she was in Santo Domingo Pan American champion again in the weight class up to 68 kg, but could not in the United States qualify for participation in the World Cup this year. In 2002, she was but at the World Championships in Chalkida / Greece at the start again and arrived there after beating Stanka Slatewa from Bulgaria and Shannon Collectibles from Canada, losing to Kateryna Burmistrowa from Ukraine and a win over Pruszko Ewelina from Poland to 3rd place, which meant winning a bronze medal.
2003 succeeded Kristie Marano to become world champion for the second time in New York. In the weight category up to 67 kg, it is successively struck jodeen Marie MacGregor from New Zealand, Martina Zyklova from the Czech Republic, Norie Saito from Japan, Shannon Collectibles and Ewelina Pruszko. She won it, the Junior World Championship medal in 1998 in the calculation, already their eighth world championship medal. In 2004, stood at the Olympic Games in Athens in four weight classes for the first time the women's wrestling on the program. The weight category up to 67 kg, launched in Kristie Marano was not there. Therefore, trained in the United States Championship from in the weight class up to 63 kg, and also won the championship here. Apparently you had this much power COST detraining but that they decided to start at the U.S. Olympic excretion ( Trials ) in the weight class up to 72 kg. But in this weight class, she lost in the two decisive battles against Toccara Montgomery and missed by participating in Athens.
In the following years they then always initially launched in the weight class up to 72 kg. At the next World Cup it only took back in 2006 in part and came up in Guangzhou / China to a victory over Daria Karpenko, Kazakhstan, a defeat against Kyoko Hamaguchi and victories over Nasanburmaa Ochirbat, Mongolia, Svetlana Sajenko from Ukraine and Ohenewa Akuffo from Canada to win their next medal, a bronze. In 2007, she won for the first time at the Pan American Games. In Rio de Janeiro, they stopped in front of Ohenewa Akuffo and Rosangela Conceicao of Brazil. Your being the last World Cup medal, their tenth, Kristie Marano won then at the 2007 World Championships in Baku. There, she defeated Agnieszka Wieszczek from Poland, Maider Unda Gonzales de Audicana from Spain and Güzäl Mänürowa from Russia before it was defeated in the final against Stanka Slatewa.
In 2008, Kristie Marano came at the U.S. Championships behind Ali Bernard, Catherine Downing and Iris Smith only to 4th place and also managed at the Olympic Trials are unable to qualify for the Olympic Games in Beijing.
After a break in 2009, consisting of the above-described circumstances came about (birth to her second child ), made Kristie Marano, now as Kristie Davis a comeback. She managed to qualify for the 2010 World Cup in Moscow. In Moscow, they failed in the weight class up to 67 kg, however, already in the first round to Alla Cherkasova from Ukraine. Therefore, there occupied only the 12th Place. In 2011 she trained even back in the weight class up to 63 kg from and was in Rionegro Pan American champion before Justine Bouchard of Canada and Sandra Roa from Colombia.
It is assumed that Kristie Davis will attempt in 2012, but still qualify for participation in the Olympic Games.
Internatioanel successes
U.S. Championships
Notes
- All competitions in free style
- WM = World Cup
Swell
- Database of the Institute for Applied Training Science at the University of Leipzig
- Journal The Ringer
- Website of the American Association Ringer