Sara McMann
Sara McMann (born 24 September 1980 in Takoma Park, Maryland ) is an American wrestler. She won at the 2004 Athens Olympics, a silver medal in the weight category up to 63 kg body weight
Career
Sara McMann grew up in Lock Haven and in Iowa City. Her older brother was a wrestler and it was already as teenagers also delight in this sport. So you started at the age of 14 years. Later she became a member of the Sunkist Kids Wrestling Club in Scottsdale. She attended McDowell High School and studied at the Minnesota - Morris University. Your coaches were Carl Poff, Roccky Bonomo and Tim Hutchins. Sara McMann now lives in South Carolina. Your career as a wrestler, she finished in 2008, because she was the mother of a daughter. But In December 2009, she took again in Fort Lauderdale at the World Cup in Nogi Grappling, a new Ringer sporting discipline which combines elements from the Sumo with elements from other martial arts. She won there in the weight category up to 63 kg before her compatriot Shayne Baszler and the Canadian Sheila Bird. However, the sporting value of this victory can not be equated with the victory in the Olympic sport of wrestling. Since 2010 she is active as a mixed martial arts fighter (MMA). In this sport they previously played two amateur and six professional fights, won them all.
1999 Sara McMann U.S. Junior National Champion and was then sent to the Junior World Championships in Budapest. She has attended there in the weight class up to 58 kg the 6th Place. That was the start to their international Ringer career. In 2000, she won her first medal at an international championship at the Pan American Championships in Cali / Colombia in the weight category to 62 kg with a silver medal. Then you started in 2000 still with two world championships. First, she won at the Junior World Cup in Nantes the 5th Place and then she did not come at the World Championships in Sofia for the 9th square. The title was won there in their weight class Nikola Hartmann Dünser from Austria.
2001 Sara McMann USA champion against Tonya Evinger and Tori Adams. At the Pan American Championships this year in Santo Domingo, she won a medal again with the 3rd place. At the 2001 World Championships in Sofia she lost to Rena Iwama from Japan and Lili Meng from China and got away with it only to 15th place. After another title at the U.S. Championships, she defeated there in the final Kristie Marano, Sara McMann cut n the World Cup in Chalkida / Greece after a victory over Yoon So -young, South Korea and losing to Kaori Icho of Japan with the 13th Place hardly better off than in 2001.
Sara McMann beat 2003 in the finals of the U.S. Championships again Kristie Marano. This year, she succeeded then the international break, because then they triumphed at the Pan American Games in Santo Domingo in the weight category up to 63 kg before Viola Yanik from Canada and Mabel Fonseca Ramirez from Puerto Rico and grabbing himself her first international title. Also in the 2003 World Cup in New York, she was able to convince and to secure the vice-champion title after beating Sara Eriksson, Sweden, Kristine Odrina Orbowa, Latvia, Alyona Kartaschowa, Russia and Viola Yanik and a defeat in the final battle against Kaori Icho.
In the USA Championship 2004 Sara McMann lost in the final of the 63 kg weight class against Kristie Marano. But you could prevail at the U.S. Olympic excretion ( Trials ) against Alaina Berube, thus securing a ticket to the Olympic Games in Athens. In Athens, she won over Meng Lili, Viola Yanik and Stavroula Zygouri, Greece, before they lost the final against Kaori Icho again. But you won so that the Olympic silver medal.
2005 Sara McMann could not start in the U.S. Championship due to injury. But they secured at the World Cup Trials with a victory over Alaina Berube the ticket to the World Championships in Budapest. There she lost in his first fight against Kaori Icho, but could be in the consolation round with victories over Helena Alandi, Sweden and Anna Polownewa, Russia, still fight for a world championship bronze medal. In 2006 she was again U.S. champion, but lost at the World Championships in Guangzhou already in their second fight against Monika Ewa Michalik of Poland, which she retired and only came on the 12th Place.
At the U.S. Championships in 2007 she succeeded with a win in the final over Randi Miller again winning the title and also at the Pan American Games in 2007 in Rio de Janeiro was named the winner in the weight category 63 kg Sara McMann. She mentioned there Yoselin Rojas Urbina from Venezuela and Megan Dolan from Canada to the places. At the World Championships this year in Baku, she won a bronze medal behind Kaori Icho and Jelena Schalygina from Kazakhstan then another medal.
In January 2008, Sara McMann was at the Team World cup in Taiyuan / China at the start and defeated there Nishimaki million from Japan and Yulia Ostapchuk of Ukraine. In the U.S. Championships this year and at the Trials for the Olympic Games in Beijing, she was pushed back to 2nd place both times by Randi Miller. A start in the 2008 Olympics in Beijing would no longer out of the question anyway because of her pregnancy.
International success
USA Championships
Notes
- All competitions in free style
- OS = The Olympic Games, WM = World Cup
Swell
- Journal The Ringer
- Website " Foeldeak Wrestling Database "
- Website " www.themat.com "
- Website " www.sherdog.com/fighter/Sara-McMann-67094 "