Sammie Henson

Samuel " Sammie " Henson ( born January 1, 1971 in St. Louis, Michigan ) is a former American professional wrestler. In 1998 he was world champion and won at the 2000 Olympic Games silver medal each in free style flyweight.

Career

Sammie Henson began in 1978 along with his brothers Chuck and Kevin at the Francis Howell High School in St. Charles, Michigan, with the rings. His first coaches were Roger Hodapp and Judd Hofmann. Early in his career, he still operated in the two styles free style and Greco- Roman style. As a "High - school wrestler " he brought it to three championships of Michigan in Greco- Roman style. His college years began with the study of economics at the University of Missouri in Columbia (Massachusetts ), Massachusetts. His Ringer coaches were there Wes Roper and Gil Sanchez. Later he continued his studies at the University Clenson in Clenson, South Carolina, continued. He graduated there in 1995., He was also a member of the Sunkist Kids WC Ringer Clubs in Stillwater, Arizona in 1993.

1987, 1988 and 1990 was Sammie Henson U.S. junior champion, 1989, he took 2nd place in the Greco-Roman flyweight. In 1993 and 1994 he won the American students Championship ( NCAA Champion ) in free style. American champion in the seniors he was in 1990 in Greco- Roman style, and in the years 1998, 2000 and 2005 in free style, each flyweight.

At the international wrestling mat, he first appeared in 1988, when he was participating in the World Youth Championship ( Cadets ) in Wolfurt / Austria in Greco-Roman style, but could not place it in the front of the field. In 1990 he occupied at the Pan American Championships in Colorado Springs in the Greco-Roman style 3rd place and came at the same championship in 1993 in free style to 2nd place. In the next few years he was in the United States, mostly in the shadow of Zeke Jones, so that he could appear again only in 1998 on the international stage Ringer. He finished this year at the Goodwill Games in New York behind Behnam Tayebi Kermani of Iran 2nd place. In the same year he took the first time at a World Cup finals, winning in Tehran in free style, the style to which he focused on this point, at first the world championship title. He defeated while Vasily Zeiher from Germany with 6:4 points, Amiran Kartanow from Greece 5-4 points, grumbling Mamirow from Kazakhstan 3-1 points, Tschetschenol Mongusch from Russia with 4:3 points and Namig Abdullayev from Azerbaijan with 3: 1 points, all scarce point victories, but showing that he ultimately could always prevails in encounters that were almost balanced.

1999 failed Sammie Henson in the U.S. World Cup qualification ( Trials ) to Eric Akin. But in 2000 he won at the U.S. Olympic Trials before Eric Akin and therefore was a participant at the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney. There he won the flyweight about Moon Myung- seok, South Korea ( 10-0 points), Chikara Tanabe, Japan ( 9:1 points ), Alexander Sacharjuk, Ukraine ( 8-4 points) and German Kontojew, Belarus (3-0) points, but had narrowly beaten with 3:4 points in the final against Namig Abdullayev. He thus won the silver medal.

Over the next three years, he joined then rings driven hardly appear. In 2004, however, he again participated at the U.S. Championships and finished behind Stephen Abas 2nd place. At Stephen Abas he also failed at the U.S. Olympic Tials. But in 2005 he won before that Ringer both the U.S. championship and the World Cup Trials. But at the World Championships 2005 in Budapest he disappointed. He won his first fight there though against Vitas Shumakov from Lithuania, but lost his next fight against Zelimkhan Kurejew from Russia and finished only 14th place.

2006 Sammie Henson finally took for the last time at a World Cup and won in Guangzhou in the bantamweight title with victories over Rene Montero, Cuba ( 2-1 rounds, 8-2 points), Francisco Javier Sanchez Parra, Spain (2-0 rounds, 9: 0 ), Taghi Dadashi, Iran (2-0 rounds, 5-0 points), a defeat against Radoslaw Welikow (0-2 rounds, 00:11 points) and a victory over Atscham Achilow, Uzbekistan (2-0 rounds, 4-1 points) once again a World Cup bronze medal.

During his playing days took Sammie Henson coaching job, usually as an assistant coach at the University of Oklahoma, Penn State University, the Military Academy West Point, the University of Nebraska and is now (2010) again assistant coach at the University of Oklahoma.

International success

Kulac, Turkey

National success

Notes

  • F = free style, GR = Greek -Roman style
  • OS = The Olympic Games, WM = World Cup
  • Flyweight, 52 kg to 1996 from 1997 to 2001-54 kg body weight, abolished after
  • Bantamweight, since 2002 up to 55 kg body weight
  • Trials = elimination tournament

Swell

  • Journal The Ringer
  • Database of the Institute for Applied Training Science at the University of Leipzig
  • Sites of the U.S. and Canadian wrestler Association and the American Student Sports Association ( NCAA)
Weight class (boxing) Colorado Springs, Colorado 1998 World Wrestling Championships Maulen Mamyrov Wrestling at the 2000 Summer Olympics 2005 World Wrestling Championships 2006 World Wrestling Championships Ankara Stillwater (Oklahoma) Spokane, Washington Warsaw Winnipeg
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