Patricia Miranda

Patricia Noriko Miranda ( born June 11, 1979 in Manteca, California) is an American wrestler. She won at the Olympic Games in Athens in 2004 a bronze medal in the weight category up to 48 kg body weight (bw ) and was also in the 2000 and 2003 Vice World Champion.

Career

Patricia Miranda was the daughter of a Brazilian immigrant couple. Her mother died already when she was 10 years old. She attended the Redwood Middle School, and began at the age of 11 years with the rings. She then attended the Saratoya High School and wrestled there on the school team forced against boys because at that time the woman was still rings at the beginning and there were hardly any female opponents. She had it only overcome the resistance of her father, which this circumstance did not like. She was coached at the time by Steve Buddie, Ray Bocker and Lloyd Asato.

After high school, Patricia Miranda attended Stanford University. She graduated from the Batchelor degree in Economics and a Masters degree in Political Science and received his doctorate in 2007 at the Yale School of low Dr. rights.

In 2004, she married Levi Weikel - Magden which as Dr. rights and together with the U.S. National Head Women's Coach Terry Steiner took over the training of Patricia Miranda. Patricia Miranda and her husband live in New Haven ( Connecticut ). She trains almost exclusively in the training center of the U.S. Ringer Association in Colorado Springs.

In 1996, Patricia Miranda first participated at the U.S. Championships for senior finished second in the weight class up to 46 kg the 4th Place. Since then she has participated until the year 2008 to the year 2005 in each year in this championship and was in this period a total of seven times U.S. champion weight classes kg to 48 kg and 51 kg.

In 2000, she first took part in an international championship. She managed to attend the World Championships in Sofia equal a great success, because it was behind the dominant Japanese Hitomi Sakamoto Vice World Champion.

As a third of the U.S. Championship 2001, she was not used this year at the World Championships. In 2002, American champion in the class to 51 kg body weight before Magdalena Arillano from Mexico and Flor Quispe Cordova from Peru Patricia Miranda in Maracaibo Pan. At the World Championships this year in Chalkidis / Greece she lost her first match against Sweden's Ida Hellström unhappy with 2:3 techn. Points. In accordance with the former Regulations you availed of the following superior victory over the Mongolian Tsogtbadsaryn Enchdschargal (13:1 techn. Dots) not much. She came so only on the 11th Place.

In 2003, Patricia Mirandi triumphed at the Pan American Games in Santo Domingo in the class to 48 kg from the strong Canadian Lindsay Belisle and Flor Quispe Cordova. In the subsequent World Cup in New York, she scored four wins and was thus in the final battle against the multiple world champion Irina Melnik - Merleni from Ukraine. She delivered this enormously strong opponent a courageous battle and was defeated only narrowly 4:5 techn. Points. This made her the second time Vice World Champion.

In 2004, Patricia Miranda qualified for participation in the Olympic Games in Athens, where for the first time in the history of the modern Olympic Games women wrestling was on the program. In Athens, she won over Li Hui from China, Larissa Oorzak from Russia and Mayelis Caripa Castillo from Venezuela, but was defeated in the semifinals again against Irina Melnik - Merleni, whose victory, this time 9-0 techn. Points turned out quite clearly. In the subsequent battle for the bronze medal Patricia Miranda succeeded but then almost as clear victory ( 12:4 techn. Dots) on the French Angelique Berhenet - Hidalgo.

After they paused in 2005, it was again in 2006 U.S. Champion before Jennifer S. Wong and represented the United States again at the World Championships in Guangzhou / China in the weight category to 51 kg body weight. Here she succeeded with three wins and one defeat against Hitomi Sakamoto of winning the World Cup bronze medal.

After the World Cup, she was not at the start in 2007, Patricia Miranda failed quite surprising at the U.S. Olympic excretion of Clarissa Chun who had defeated them in their careers have often. That you was the way is blocked by Beijing. She resigned in 2009 but is not yet with us.

International success

(OS = Olympic Games, WM = World Championship, BW = body weight)

2000, 2nd place, World Cup in Sofia, to 51 kg body weight, behind Hitomi Sakamoto, Japan, before Ida Hellström, Sweden, Inessa Rebar, Ukraine & Jelena Egochina, Russia;

2001, 4th place, World Cup in Levallois, to 51 kg body weight, behind Hitomi Sakamoto, Gao Yanzhi, China and Jelena Tolstenko, Russia, before Teresa Pearson, Canada;

2002, 1st Place, Pan American Championships in Maracaibo / Venezuela, to 51 kg body weight, before Arillano Magdalena, Mexico and Flor Quispe Cordova, Peru;

2002 11th Place, WM in Chalkidis / Greece, to 48 kg body weight, after a defeat against Ida Hellström and a win over Tsogtbadsaryn Enchdschargal, Mongolia;

2002, 1st Place, New York Athletic Club Open to 48 kg body weight, before Krista Wells and Sandra Padron, bde. USA;

2003 3rd place, Pan American Championships in Guatemala to 48 kg body weight, behind Mayelis Cariga Castillo, Venezuela and Lindsay Belisle, Canada, before Flor Quispe Cordova;

2003 3rd place, Klippan Ladies Open, to 48 kg body weight, behind Irina Melnik - Merleni, Ukraine and Brigitte Wagner, Germany, before Clarissa Chun, USA;

2003 1st place, Pan American Games in Santo Domingo, to 48 kg, above Lindsay Belisle, Flor Quispe Cordova and Mayelis Caripa Castillo;

2003, 2nd place, World Cup in New York, to 48 kg body weight, with victories over Lindsay Belisle, Maria del Mar Peralta, Spain, Angelique Berthenet - Hidalgo, France & Fani Psatha, Greece and a defeat against Irina Melnik - Merleni;

2003, 1st place, World Cup in Tokyo, to 48 kg body weight, before Yang Zuying, China, Carol Huynh, Canada & Larissa Oorzak, Russia;

2004, 1st place, " Dave Schultz " Memorial in Colorado Springs, to 48 kg body weight, before Brigitte Wagner, Lindsay Belisle and Clarissa Chun;

2004, 5th place, FILA test tournament in Athens, to 48 kg body weight, with wins over July Woitowa, Ukraine & Sara Sanchez Parra, Spain, a defeat against Chiharu Icho, Japan and a win over Angelique Berthenet - Hidalgo;

2004, 1st Place, Klippan Ladies Open, to 48 kg body weight, before Inga Karamtschatkowa, Russia, Fani Psatha and Mersini colonization, bde. Greece;

2004, 1st Place, FILA Manitoba Open, to 48 kg body weight, before Katie Kunimoto and Sara Fulp -Allen, bde USA;

2004, 1st place, " Alexander Medved " tournament in Kiev, to 48 kg body weight, with wins over Katsiaryina Wasilewskaja, Ukraine, Natalia Guschtschina, Russia, Eleonora Abutalipowa, Kazakhstan and Carol Huynh;

2004, bronze medal, OS in Athens, to 48 kg body weight, with victories over Li Hui, China, Larissa Oorzak and Mayelis Caripa Castillo, a defeat against Irina Melnik - Merleni and a win over Angelique Berthenet - Hidalgo;

2005, 2nd Place, New York Athletic Club Open to 51 kg body weight, behind Jennifer S. Wong and before Mary Kelly, bde. USA & Belinda Chou, Canada;

2006 1st place, Canada Cup in Guelph, to 51 kg body weight, before Li Hui and Liao Rong, bde. China and Erica Sharp, Canada;

2006, 3rd place, World Cup in Tokyo, to 51 kg body weight, behind Ren Xuecheng, China and Hitomi Sakamoto, before Aleksandra Kohut, Ukraine & Belinda Chou;

2006, 3rd place, World Cup in Guangzhou / China, to 51 kg, with a win over Marta Podeworna, Poland, a defeat against Hitomi Sakamoto, as well as victories over Bekzat Mustafa, Kazakhstan and Aleksandra Kohut;

2007 1st place, " Dave Schultz " Memorial in Colorado Springs, to 51 kg body weight, before Jennifer S. Wong, Erica Sharp and Alena Adschinskaja, Russia;

2007, 2nd Place, Guelph Open, b is 51 kg KG, behind Stefanie Murata, USA, before Belinda Chou;

2007 1st place, World Cup in Krasnoyarsk, to 51 kg body weight, before Zamira Rachmanowa, Russia, Ninako Hattori, Japan and Li Yaomei, China;

2007, 1st Place, Golden Grand Prix in Tourcoing, to 51 kg body weight, before Anna Trusowa, Russia, Aurelia Bassett, France & Jennifer S. Wong;

2008, 1st place, " Dave Schultz " Memorial in Colorado Springs, to 51 kg kG, before Jessie Bondy, Canada, Helen Maroulis & Catherine Fulp -Allen, bde. USA & Alexandra Engelhardt, Germany;

2008, 1st place, " Alexander Medved " tournament in Kiev, to 48 kg body weight, before Carol Huynh and Tatjana Bogartschuk, Kazakhstan;

2009 1st place, " Dave Schultz " Memorial in Colorado Springs, to 51 kg body weight, before Jessie Bondy and Alexandra Engelhardt

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