Terry Brands

Terry Brands ( born April 9, 1968 in Omaha, Nebraska ) is a former American professional wrestler, world champion in 1993 and 1995 and winner of the bronze medal at the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney in free style bantamweight.

Career

Terry Brands grew up in Sheldon, Iowa, where she started together with his twin brother Thomas in 1980 with the rings. After his high school years, he attended the University of Iowa, where he found excellent training conditions and the former Olympic champion Dan Gable one of the best wrestlers coach in the world. Dan Gable led Terry Brands purposefully into the world's top freestyle wrestler.

1990 and 1992 won Terry Brands in the NCAA Div. I Collegiate Championships ( American University Championships ) each to bantamweight titles. He scored in those years in the American high school rings of 144 battles 137 wins, which was an excellent result in the tough competition prevailing there. From 1990 to 1992 Terry Brands also won three consecutive U.S. Championship AAU (Amateur Athlete Union) bantamweight.

Beginning in 1990 ranking Terry Brands for the Hawkeye Wrestling Club in Iowa City. In 1993 he succeeded to qualify for the first time for the World Championships that took place in Toronto. He won there right away with five wins the world title and had the special joy that his brother Thomas a higher weight class, featherweight world champion.

At the World Championships in 1994 in Istanbul Terry Brands failed early on and ended up with several other wrestlers only in 11th place. But a year later, in 1995, he was at the World Championships in Atlanta again in superb form, winning by a final victory over Guivi Sissaouri from Canada for the second time for the world title in the Bantamweight.

1996 took Terry Brands in the U.S. Championships Bantamweight behind Kendall Cross 2nd place and failed in this Ringer also at the U.S. Olympic excretion ( Trials ), so that he could not participate in the Olympic Games in Atlanta.

In the years 1997 and 1998 Terry Brands was very unlucky, because although he had qualified in both years for taking part in the World Championships, he could not participate in it both times because of injuries. He resigned in 2000 and managed not to jump to the Olympic Games in Sydney. There he won against Abil Ibragimov, from Kazakhstan 6-0 on points, beat the Greeks Chvista Polychronidis 8-1 points, then triumphed over David Pogosjan from Georgia 4-2 points and lost the semifinal to the later Olympic champion Alireza Dabir from the Iran almost 4:6 points. In the battle for the bronze medal Terry Brands defeated then the Uzbeks Damir Zachartinow 3-2 points and came so still an Olympic medal.

Then Terry Brands ended his international career Ringer. He coach since 2006 at the training center of the U.S. Freestyle national team in Colorado Springs, after he had previously been 10 years long Ringer's coach at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga.

International success

(OS = Olympic Games, WM = World Championship, F = free style, Ba = bantamweight, then to 57 kg or 58 kg body weight)

• 2000, bronze medal, OS in Sydney, F, Ba, Alireza Dabir behind, Iran and Evgeni Buslowitsch, Ukraine & before Damir Zachartinow, Uzbekistan, David Pogosjan, Georgia and Martin Berberjan, Armenia

Swell

• Journal The wrestler, numbers: 9/ 1993, pages 4 to 7 and 9/1995, pages 5-8
• Website of the Institute for Applied Training Science of the University of Leipzig
• Website of the American Association Ringer

Weblink

• Profile of Terry Brands at the Institute for Applied Training Science

• Man
• Americans
• Ringer (United States)
• Person ( Omaha )
• World Champion ( Wrestling )
• Born in 1968