Tonya Verbeek
Tonya Verbeek ( born August 14, 1977 in Grimsby, Ontario ) is a Canadian wrestler. She won one silver medal at the 2008 Olympics and a bronze medal each in the weight class up to 55 kg body weight at the Olympic Games in 2004 and 2012.
Career
Tonya Verbeek grew up in Beamsville, Ontario, where she still lives. She attended high school in Beamsville and began as a teenager with the rings. Their coach was Dave Collie. After high school she attended Brock University in St.Catharines, Ontario. She was a member of the Brock University Wrestling Club, and later still of the Niagara Olympic Wrestling Club. In the Canadian national team wrestler Marty Calder joined as coach.
In 1994 she was Canadian Vice-Champion in the weight category to 57 kg body weight and 1955, for the first time Canadian champion in the same weight class. After this early success, she managed only again to be 2005 Canadian Champion and indeed in the weight class up to 55 kg. Between 1996 and 2005 it belonged even to the Canadian top class, but mostly occupied the 2nd or the 3rd place at the Canadian championships. There were Erica Sharp and Jennifer Ryz that in those years were placed in front of her.
As a Canadian Champion in 1995 as first used in an international championship, the World Championships in Moscow. As a 18 -year-old freshman, she took there in the weight category to 57 kg an excellent 5th place. In 2002, she arrived at the Universities World Cup in Edmonton in the weight class up to 55 kg body weight behind the then perhaps the world's best wrestler Seiko Yamamoto from Japan and Sun Dongmei from China to 3rd place. In 2003, she also won at the Pan American Championships in Guatemala City before Tina George from the United States and Marcia Andrade Mendoza from Venezuela, but had to be at the Pan American Games in 2003 in Santo Domingo content behind Tina George with the 2nd place.
2004 succeeded Tonya Verbeek to prevail at the Canadian Olympaausscheidung against Erica Sharp and Jennifer Ryz. In the subsequent Olympic qualifying tournaments in Tunis and Madrid, she managed to secure a place at the Olympic Games in Athens. In Athens, she struggled with wins over Tela O'Donnell from the United States, Olga Smirnova from Russia and Ida -Theres Nerell from Sweden in the final ahead of where she was, however, a chance against Saori Yoshida. By winning the Olympic silver medal she nevertheless enjoyed great success.
In 2005, she then won a medal at the World Championships in Budapest. She won there over Lee Na - lae from South Korea, Tina George and Jessica Bechtel from Germany, losing to Saori Yoshida and won with a convincing victory over Ludmila Cristea of Romania (2-0 rounds, 15:2 techn. Dots) a World Cup bronze medal. In 2006, she was this success at the World Championships in Guangzhou not repeat because they lost there in the weight class up to 55 kg body weight for a first round victory over Olena Malischko, Ukraine against Ida -Theres Nerell and only came on the 11th Place. Something similar happened to her at the 2007 World Championships in Baku, because they won there though about Alka Tomar of India and Amir Rivera from Puerto Rico, but then dropped out after a defeat against Alena Filipowa from Belarus and came only on the 9th Place.
2008 Tonya Verbeek was re Pan American Champion. She defeated play in the final Marcie van Dusen from the United States. At the Olympic Games in Beijing, she succeeded then much to do better than at the last two World Championships. In the weight category to 55 kg she came to victories over Naidan Otgonjarjal from Mongolia and Ludmila Cristea. In the semifinal she was defeated by Saori Yoshida, but in the battle for the bronze medal they defeated their old rival Ida -Theres Nerell just on points (2-0 rounds, 2-0 techn. Dots) and thus won her second Olympic medal.
At the 2009 World Championships in Herning / Denmark ( class up to 55 kg ), she won over Bilenska Sylwia from Poland, Choe Jong- Bok from North Korea and Aiym Abdilina from Kazakhstan, before it failed again at the ungschlagbaren Saori Yoshida. In the final battle for a world championship bronze medal she succeeded then a victory over Anna Gomis of France. At the World Championships in Moscow Tonya Verbeek was defeated in their first fight, the first time in the weight category to 59 kg wrestling, against Battsetseg Soronzonbold from Mongolia and subsequently defeated in the consolation round Joice Souza da Silva from Brazil, but lost their next fight against Ayako Shoda from Japan and got away with it on the 5th Place. Towards the end of 2010, the Commonwealth Games were held in Delhi. Tonya Verbeek started there back in the weight category to 59 kg body weight and lost the final of the Indian Alka Tomar just on points.
Tonya Verbeek in 2011 occupied at the World Championships in Istanbul after a defeat in the final against Saori Yoshida, which was quite scarce ( 1:2 rounds, 4:7 points) 2nd place. Before this final they had Gurowa Maria from Russia, Nominerdene Batbaatar from Mongolia, Julia Ratkewitsch from Azerbaijan and Tetyana Lazareva of Ukraine defeated. In the final of the Pan American Games in October 2011, she underwent surprisingly against the young Helen Maroulis of the United States.
In May 2012, Tonya Verbeek won the World Cup tournament in Tokyo Valeria Scholobowa from Russia and Saori Yoshida. She owed this success to a win over Valeria Scholobowa, the previously Saori Yoshida had conquered. Saori Yoshida wrestled against Tonya Verbeek not at disem tournament. But on Saori Yoshida met again in the final of the 2012 Olympic Games in London. They lost that fight with 0:2 and 0:5 rounds points. The finale had achieved with wins over Geeta, India, Tetyana Lazareva and Jackeline Rentería, Colombia.
International success
Canadian Championships
Notes
- All competitions in free style
- OS = The Olympic Games, WM = World Championship,
- BW = body weight
Swell
- Database of the Institute for Applied Training Science at the University of Leipzig
- Journal The Ringer
- Website of the Canadian Association Ringer
- Website of the American Association Ringer