Annabel Laure Ali

Annabel Laure Ali (also Annabelle Laure Ali , Laure Annabel Ali , Laure Annabelle Ali , Laure Ali Annabel , Annabel Ali , Laure Ali ; born March 4, 1985 in Garoua / Cameroon) is a wrestler from Cameroon . She is an Olympian in Beijing in 2008 and in London in 2012.

Career

Annabel Laure Ali is an African wrestler who made the leap into the extended world class. She started wrestling in Cameroon but later moved to France and is a member of the INSEP Paris sports club . She is mainly trained by Isaac Mpia. At a height of 1.76 meters, she wrestles in the heaviest weight class in women's wrestling, which has its limit at 72 kg body weight.

She made her debut on the international wrestling mat in 2005 at the Commonwealth Championships in Stellenbosch / South Africa. She won over the Indian Jyoti. In 2007 she started in Baku for the first time at a World Cup. In her first fight, she met the multiple Japanese world champion Kyoko Hamaguchi , against whom she showed a very good fight and was only slightly defeated on points (1: 2 rounds, 1: 3 points). Since Kyoko Hamaguchi did not reach the final, Annabel Laure Ali was eliminated and came in 19th place.

In 2008 she won her first international medal, namely a bronze medal, at the African Championships in Tunis behind Amarachi Obiajunwa, Nigeria and Sabrine Mathelouthi, Tunisia. In the same year she also managed to qualify for the Olympic Games in Beijing through good placements at the tournaments in Edmonton and Haparanda. In Beijing, she then lost her first fight against Agnieszka Wieszczek-Kordus from Poland and finished in 16th place. In 2008 she started at the World Championships in Tokyo, but also there she lost her first fight against Alena Starodubzewa from Russia and ended up in 12th place.

In 2009 she became the African champion for the first time in Casablanca. She referred Sonja Coetzee from South Africa and Enass Moustafa from Egypt to their places. In August 2009 she became world champion in beach wrestling in Obzor / Bulgaria in the weight class over 70 kg in front of Bulgarian Elina Wasewa. Although this title does not have the status of a world championship title in Olympic wrestling, Annabel Laure Ali's victory in this competition is still remarkable. At the 2009 World Championships in Hering / Denmark, she achieved her first victory in such a championship. She won over Darja Karpenko from Kazakhstan. However, she lost her second fight against Swetlana Sajenko from the Ukraine, eliminated and finished in 9th place.

In January 2010 she reached a very good 2nd place at the busy Golden Grand Prix in Krasnoyarsk. She only lost there in the final against Jekaterina Bukina, but left such good wrestlers as Gelegdschamtsyn Narantschimeg from Mongolia and Stanka Slatewa Christowa , a multiple world champion from Bulgaria, behind. In June 2010, Annabel Laure Ali became African champion for the second time in Cairo. At the 2010 World Cup in Moscow, she gave the local favorite Ekaterina Bukina a really big fight, which she just lost 1: 2 rounds with a 3: 3 point tie. However, since Jekaterina Bukina missed the final, she did not make it into the consolation round and ended up in 11th place. In October 2010 she won the silver medal behind Ohenewa Akuffo from Canada at the Commonwealth Games in New Delhi .

In 2011, Annabel Laure Ali became African champion for the third time in Dakar ahead of Amarachi Obiajunwa. In September 2011 she started at the World Championships in Istanbul, where she achieved 5th place, the best result of her career. On the way to this success she first lost to Jekaterina Bukina, then defeated Gelegdschamtsyn Narantschimeg and the junior world champion Cynthia Vanessa Vescan from France, before she lost in the battle for a bronze medal against Wassilisa Marsalijuk from Belarus. With this 5th place she also qualified for the 2012 Olympic Games in London.

In March 2012 Annabel Laure Ali had to bow to the Senegalese Oliviane Bassene in the final of the African Championship in Marrakech. At the Olympic Games in London in 2012, she won a victory over Josiane Patricia Soloniaina from Madagascar, then lost to Stanka Slatewa Christowa, but was able to continue in the consolation round, in which she was defeated again by Vasilisa Marsalijuk. It took 7th place.

After a somewhat longer break, she started at the Jeux de la Francophonie in Nice in 2013, where she came in third behind the Canadians Veronica Keefe and Cynthia Vanessa Vescan.

International success

year	space	competition	Weight class	Results
2005	1.	Commonwealth Championship in Stellenbosch / South Africa	up to 72 kg	off Jyoti, India
2007	19th	World Cup in Baku	up to 72 kg	after losing to Kyoko Hamaguchi , Japan
2008	3.	African Championship in Tunis	up to 72 kg	behind Amarachi Obiajunwa, Nigeria and Sabrine Mathlouthi, Tunisia
2008	3.	Olympic Qualifying Tournament in Edmonton	up to 72 kg	behind Agnieszka Wieszczek-Kordus , Poland and Rosangela Conceicao, Brazil
2008	8th.	Olympic qualification tournament in Haparanda	up to 72 kg	Winner: Amarachi Obiajunwa ahead of Audrey Prieto , France
2008	16.	OS in Beijing	up to 72 kg	after a loss to Agnieszka Wieszczek-Kordus
2008	12.	World Cup in Tokyo	up to 72 kg	after losing to Alena Starodubzewa , Russia
2009	3.	Dan Kolow & Nikola Petrow Memorial in Varna	up to 72 kg	behind Stanka Slatewa Christowa , Bulgaria and Otschirbatyn Burmaa , Mongolia
2009	1.	African Championship in Casablanca	up to 72 kg	before Sonja Coetzee, South Africa and Enass Moustafa, Egypt
2009	1.	Beach Wrestling World Cup in Obzor / Bulgaria	over 70 kg	before Elina Wasewa and Ralitza Iwanowa, both Bulgaria
2009	9.	World Cup in Herning / Denmark	up to 72 kg	after defeating Darja Karpenko, Kazakhstan and losing to Swetlana Sajenko , Ukraine
2010	2.	Golden Grand Prix in Krasnoyarsk	up to 72 kg	behind Jekaterina Bukina, Russia, in front of Gelegdschamtsyn Narantschimeg , Mongolia and Stanka Slatewa Christowa, Bulgaria
2010	4th	Dan Kolow & Nikola Petrow Memorial in Burgas	up to 72 kg	behind Stanka Slatewa Christowa, Otschirbatyn Burmaa and Roxana Camelia Iancolovici, Romania
2010	1.	African Championship in Cairo	up to 72 kg	before Helen Okus, Nigeria and Doaa Ahmed Maher, Egypt
2010	3.	Golden Grand Prix in Baku	up to 72 kg	behind Stanka Slatewa Christowa and Gousel Manjurowa , Kazakhstan, in front of Jenny Fransson , Sweden and Alena Starodubzewa
2010	11.	World Cup in Moscow	up to 72 kg	after a loss to Ekaterina Bukina
2010	2.	Commonwealth Games in New Delhi	up to 72 kg	behind Ohenewa Akuffo, Canada, in front of Helen Okus and Sarah Jones, Scotland
2011	1.	African Championship in Dakar	up to 72 kg	before Amarachi Obiajunwa and Ibtissem Maamer, Tunisia
2011	2.	Spanish Grand Prix in Madrid	up to 72 kg	behind Agnieszka Wieszczek-Kordus, in front of Marina Gastl, Austria
2011	5.	World Cup in Istanbul	up to 72 kg	after a defeat against Ekaterina Bukina, victories against Gelegdschamtsyn Narantschimeg and Cynthia Vanessa Vescan, France and a defeat against Wassilisa Marsalijuk, Belarus
2011	3.	FILA test tournament in London	up to 72 kg	behind Ekaterina Bukina and Stanka Slatewa Christowa
2012	2.	African Championship in Marrakech	up to 72 kg	behind Oliviane Bassene, Senegal, in front of Josiana Patricia Solonianina, Madagascar and Blessing Onjebuchi, Nigeria
2012	2.	Spanish Grand Prix in Madrid	up to 72 kg	behind Stanka Slatewa Christowa, in front of Maider Unda Gonzales de Audicana , Spain and Jenny Fransson
2012	7th	OS in London	up to 72 kg	after a victory over Josiane Patricia Solonianina and defeats against Stanka Slatewa Christowa and Wassilisa Marsalijuk
2013	3.	Jey de la Francophonie in Nice	up to 72 kg	behind Veronica Keefe, Canada and Cynthia Vanessa Vescan

Explanations

• all free style competitions
• OS = Olympic Games, WM = World Championship

swell

• Trade journal Der Ringer
• Foeldeak Wrestling Database website

Web links

• Fight between Annabel Laure Ali and Yekaterina Bukina at the 2010 Golden Grand Prix in Krasnoyarsk