Barry Davis

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Barry Alan Davis (born September 17, 1961 in Bloomfield , Indiana ) is a retired American wrestler and winner of the silver medal at the 1984 Los Angeles Olympic Games in the free style bantamweight.

Career

Barry Davis attended Cedar Rapids Prairie High School and began wrestling as a teenager. He concentrated entirely on the free style. He was already very successful in wrestling at high school, winning 102 of 109 fights there. He also won three high school championships for the state of Iowa . After studying at Iowa State University , he continued his sport there and got one of the best American freestyle coaches in the 1972 Olympic champion Dan Gable .

Barry Davis won the flyweight title in 1982 and the bantamweight title at the NCAA Division I Collegiate Championships in 1983 and 1985, the equivalent of the US student champion. Barry Davis also wrestled for the Hawkeye Wrestling Club in Iowa City . He was three times champion of the state of Iowa, finished in the USA championship of the AAU (Amateur Athletes Union) in 1982 in flyweight the 2nd place behind Gene Mills and in 1987 won the USA championship in bantamweight.

His international wrestling career began at the Junior World Championship in 1981 (Espoirs = age group up to the age of 20) in Vancouver . In the bantamweight he won the silver medal behind the Soviet athlete Arsen Fadsayev , who was to become one of the greatest freestyle wrestlers of all time. In 1983, Barry Davis won the Pan American Games in Caracas in the bantamweight division. He won there before Rafael Torres from Cuba a . Orlando Caceres from Puerto Rico .

At the 1983 World Cup in Kiev , Barry Davis had to pay a lot of money because he did not get past 12th place in the bantamweight division. This World Cup tournament was won by Sergei Beloglasow from the Soviet Union ahead of the Japanese Hideaki Tomiyama , both of whom are two very great wrestlers.

After the disappointment at the World Cup in 1983, Barry Davis achieved the best result of his international wrestling career the next year. At the 1984 Olympic Games in Los Angeles , he won four fights and was thus Hideaki Tomiyama in the final fight. Tomiyama won this clearly on points. Barry Davis was able to shine by winning the Olympic silver medal .

Barry Davis also did very well at the World Championships in the following two years. At the 1986 World Championships in Budapest he finished 3rd in bantamweight and even 2nd at the 1987 World Championships in Clermont-Ferrand . Both times he was defeated by Sergei Beloglasow, 1986 in the semi-finals and 1987 in the final.

After 1987, Barry Davis ended his international wrestling career. He had become an assistant coach at Iowa State University in 1986. He held this post until 1992. Since 1993, Barry Davis has been the head coach of the freestyle wrestlers at the University of Wisconsin – Madison . He lives with his family in Madison , Wisconsin. In 2007 he was inducted into the National Wrestling Hall of Fame for his services to wrestling .

International success

(OS = Olympic Games, WM = World Championship, F = free style, Fl = flyweight, Ba = bantam weight, back then up to 52 kg or 57 kg body weight)

swell

  • Trade journal Der Ringer , numbers: 10/1983, pages 5/6, 9/1984, pages 11/12, 11/1986, pages 8 to 10 and 9/1987, pages 8 to 10
  • Database of the Institute for Applied Training Sciences at the University of Leipzig

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personal data
SURNAME Davis, Barry
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Davis, Barry Alan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American wrestler
DATE OF BIRTH 17th September 1961
PLACE OF BIRTH Bloomfield , Indiana