Ross Flood

Aaron Ross Flood ( born December 28, 1910 in Braman, Kay County; † 23 May 1995 in Stillwater, Payne County, Oklahoma) was an American wrestler. He was Olympic silver medalist from Berlin in 1936.

Career

Ross Flood began with his brother John in a high school in Blackwell, Oklahoma, with the rings. Later he moved to the Oklahoma State University - Stillwater, where he was trained by trainer Edward C. Gallagher at an outstanding freestyle wrestler. Ross rank, as was customary in the United States mainly for its university.

From 1933 to 1935, he won the U.S. Championship University (NCAA Collegiate Championships ) bantamweight in free style. 1935 and 1936 he also became U.S. champion in the bantamweight, free style, organized by the Amateur Athletic Union. In 1936 he won the Olympic excretion ( Trials ) for the Olympic Games in Berlin. There he fought in the bantamweight, free style, including with a win over four-time European champion Herman Swedish Tuvesson until the finals before, in which he but lost decisively against the Hungarian Odon Zombori.

In 1937 he also won at the Pan American Exposition in Dallas bantamweight. Other international starts were for him hardly possible, because there were then no World Championships or Pan American Games or championships in wrestling.

Then Ross Flood high school coach was in wrestling in Stillwater and during World War II physical education teacher in the United States Navy. From 1946 he was a very successful coach at Southwestern Oklahoma State University. For his contributions to the sport wrestler he was inducted into the National Wrestling Hall of Fame in 1978.

International success

Swell

• Documentation of International Wrestling Championships
• Various editions of the journal " Athletics " from 1936
• Ross Flood in the Wrestling Hall of Fame