Ohenewa Akuffo

Ohenewa Akuffo (born 15 February 1979 in North York, Toronto ) is a Canadian wrestler. It was 2010 Vice World Champion in the weight class up to 72 kg.

Career

Ohenewa Akuffo is the daughter of Ghanaian immigrants to Canada. When she was three years old, her parents took her back to Ghana, but migrated to another five years, finally to Canada. They were resident with her daughter Ohenewa in Brampton (Ontario). Ohenewa Akuffo began as a teenager in high school, the Ascension Secondary School in Mississauga (Ontario) in 1993 with the rings and was a member of St. Augustine Secondary School Wrestling Club. Later she became a member of the Matman Wrestling Club and the Guelph Wrestling Club. Your coach Dave Mair she cared since 1996, and later still came Doug Cox as manager added. She has a Bachelor of Administraction Studies (Marketing) with a Certificat of Management and Administration from York University and has worked in the child and youth care.

Your first major sporting success garnered Ohenewa Akuffo one in 1997, when she was Canadian champion among women in the weight class up to 75 kg. In 1998 and 1999 she was Canadian Junior National Champion and 1999 Canadian Champion students. After she became Vice-Champion 2000 Canadian, she won the 2001 her second Canadian championship title in the women, which until 2011 was followed by six other Canadian title. They always fought in the heaviest weight class that went or goes to 2001 up to 75 kg and since 2002-72 kg.

The start to an international career also began in 1997, because after winning the Canadian championship title was already used during the World Cup 1997 in Clermont -Ferrand. She had to learn the hard way there but still pay and came to two lost battles on the 11th Place. The next start at one of the major international championships took place in 2001. She took part this year in the World Championships in Sofia and came after defeats against Nina Englich from Germany and Russia Sumrud Gurbanhadschijewa from the 10th Place.

2002 occupied Ohenewa Akuffo both the Pan American Championships in Guatemala City as well as at the Pan American Games in Santo Domingo each 2nd place, both times behind the US-American Toccara Montgomery. In 2003 in New York she reached the 13th place after a defeat against the Chinese Wang Xu and a win over Aline Silva Ferreira from Brazil. The end of 2003 Ohenewa Akuffo failed at the Canadian Olympic qualification for the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens to Christine Nordhagen, the multiple world champion. A very good result it reached at the World Cup 2004 in Tokyo, where she reached the second place in front of Ma Bailing from China and Russia Alena Starodubzewa from behind Kyoko Hamaguchi of Japan.

A remarkable success she succeeded then at the Universities of World Cup 2005 in Izmir, because they won the title there and had such well-known wrestlers like Burmistrowa Kateryna from the Ukraine, Ayako Murashima from Japan and Agnieszka from Poland Wieszczek behind. At the World Championships in Budapest, she came to a victory over Maria Orlova from Uzbekistan. After a defeat in the next fight against Anita Schätzle from Germany but she left and came on the 7th Place. A good result they achieved in the 2006 World Cup in Guangzhou. After two wins there, she lost in the semifinals against Kyoko Hamaguchi, but had then to fight for the first time at a World Cup for a medal. You lost that fight, however, against the US-American Kristie Davis and thus came to 5th place.

At the 2007 World Championships in Baku Ohenewa Akuffo lost her first fight against Jenny Fransson from Sweden. Since these did not reach the final battle, she left and finished only 22nd place. 2008 she succeeded but to qualify for participation in the Olympic Games in Beijing. There, however, she lost to the multiple world champion Stanka Slatewa from Bulgaria and somewhat surprising against the Spaniard Maider Unda Gonzales de Audicana and only came on the 10th Place. When after the Olympic Games held in Beijing World Championships in Tokyo, her then succeeded with wins over Svetlana Sajenko from Ukraine, Elena Diana Mudrag from Romania and Alena Starodubzewa, Russia, at a loss to Stanka Slatewa of winning a world bronze medal.

At the 2009 World Championships in Herning / Denmark Ohenewa Akuffo won over Maria Luiza Vryoni from Greece, but lost again against almost Stanka Slatewa (0-2 rounds, 1:2 techn. Dots) and had to retire after that, so it the 10th Place reached. What is your most successful experience she had then at the 2010 World Cup in Moscow, where they pushed forward with victories over Maider Unda Gonzales de Audicana, Li Dan from China and Kyoko Hamaguchi up in the final, where they lost to but again Stanka Slatewa ( 0:2 rounds, 0:2 techn. dots). It was so Vice World Champion. In October 2010, she won at the Commonwealth Games in Delhi in front of Laure Ali Annabel from Cameroon and Helen Oku from Ghana.

Encouraged by these successes was last Ohenewa Akuffo announced that it intended weiterzuringen up to the 2012 Olympic Games in London.

International success

Canadian Championships

Notes

All competitions in free style
OS = The Olympic Games, WM = World Cup
AG age group, A = Active, J = junior =, S = students, OT = Olympic Trials

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