Stephen Abas

Stephen Anthony Abas ( born January 12, 1978 in Santa Ana, California ) is a former American professional wrestler. He was winner of the silver medal at the 2004 Olympics in free style bantamweight.

Career

Stephen Abas grew up in Hayward, California, and began at the James Logan High School in Hayward with the rings. Following this, he attended from 1998 to 2002, the California State University at Fresno. There he was coached by Dennis Delido and developed into an outstanding freestyle wrestler. During his studies, Stephen Abas won three NCAA Division I Championships Collegiat, which corresponds to U.S. students master.

Stephen Abas started in those years also for the Wan to Wazuri Wrestling Club in Moreno Valley, California. In 1996 he was U.S. junior champion at flyweight and 1999, 2001, 2002 and 2004 U.S. champion in the senior bantamweight for this club. Later he went for the Sunkist Kids in Phoenix, Arizona at the start.

The international career of Stephen Abas Ringer began in 1994 with a 3rd place at the World Youth Championship ( Cadets = up to 16 years ) in Frankfort / USA in the weight category to 51 kg body weight. In 1996 and 1997 he reached at the Junior World Championships ( Juniors = up to 18 years ) on the 6th and 5th place and in 1998 he succeeded at the Junior World Championship ( espoir = to age 20 ) in Las Vegas a very great success, because he was bantamweight before the Uzbeks corn Ibadow and the Iranians Mehdi Nikmanesh Junior World Champion.

In the senior Stephen Abas needed then some time before he was able to continue this great success at junior level. After all, he recorded in 2000 at the World University Championships in Tokyo, which was occupied excellent, a good 4th place in the bantamweight. At the World Championship 2001 in Sofia he only reached the 16th place, because he lost the same in the first round against the eventual world champion German Kontojew from Belarus.

Stephen Abas but did not give up and won the 2002 and 2003 World Cup tournament a heavily occupied and was in 2003 winner of the Pan American Games in Santo Domingo. In the U.S. excretion ( Trials ) for the Olympic Games in Athens, he defeated then its major competitors Samuel Henson and allowed the United States in these games represented bantamweight. He fought his way there through with victories against Ghenadie Tulbea from Moldova, Rene Montero from Cuba, Li Zhengyu from China and Chikaru Tanabe from Japan to the final. But in this he was ultimately a chance against Mawlet Batirow from Russia and was defeated, with 1:9 points. But he was pleased with the silver medal.

After 2004, Stephen Abas was just more in a World Cup tournament in Tashkent at the start, which he also won. Stephen Abas tried in 2008 to qualify for the Olympic Trials for the Olympic Games in Beijing. But he failed in the crucial fight against Henry Cejudo, the Beijing Olympic champions was later. For several years he worked as an assistant coach at California State University in Fresno.

International success

Notes

  • All competitions in free style
  • OS = The Olympic Games, WM = World Cup
  • Flyweight, 52 kg to 1956 until 2001-54 kg bantamweight, since 2002 up to 55 kg body weight

Swell

  • Journal The wrestler, numbers: 12/2001, pages 4-10, 10/ 2003, pages 10 to 16 and 9/2003, pages 6-10
  • Database of the Institute for Applied Training Science at the University of Leipzig
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