Brad Penrith

Brad Penrith (born 1965 in Windsor , New York ) is a retired American wrestler . He was runner- up in 1991 in free style bantamweight.

Career

Brad Penrith started wrestling as a teenager. During his high school years, he won several regional championships in free style in 1980 and 1981, the style in which he was exclusively active, several competitions, etc. a. In 1981 he became champion of New York in the weight class up to 45 kg body weight. He was also successful while studying at Iowa State University . This culminated in winning the US Student Championship (NCAA Champion) 1986 bantamweight. In 1987 and 1988 he finished 2nd in the bantamweight championship behind Billy Kelly and Jim Martin.

Brad Penrith was also a student at the Iowa Hawkeyes Wrestling Club in Cedar Falls, Iowa . In 1989, 1991 and 1993 Brad Penrith was also the American Bantamweight Champion of the AAU (Amateur Athletic Union).

Brd Penrith's international career began at the 1989 Pan American Championships in Colorado Springs . He won the bantamweight title there in front of Osmel Rodriguez from Cuba a . Oscar Bairon Munoz from Colombia . In 1990 he finished third in a World Cup tournament in Toledo (Ohio ) behind Ahmet Ak from Turkey and the Russian Ruslan Karajew.

In 1991 Brad Penrith won the Pan American Games in Havana . In the final, he defeated the strong Cuban Alejandro Puerto Diaz , the world champion from 1990. He was also in excellent form at the subsequent World Cup in Varna and was able to fight his way through to the final. There he was defeated by the Belarusian Sergei Smal, who started for the Soviet Union, on points.

In 1992 Brad Penrith tried to qualify for the Olympic Games in Barcelona . But he failed in the so-called trials at Kendall Cross . In 1994 he finished in bantamweight at the Goodwill Games in Saint Petersburg behind Ismail Zurnacci from Turkey and Bagautdin Umachanow from Russia .

In 1996, Brad Penrith failed again in an attempt to qualify for the Atlanta Olympics. He came in 3rd place in the trials.

Then Brad Penrith ended his international wrestling career. He had worked as a wrestling trainer at various high schools and universities since the early 1990s. Since June 21, 2000, he has been the head coach at the University of Northern Iowa . He has made the local wrestling team called Northern Iowa Panthers Wrestling Team one of the most successful US university teams .

International success

(WM = world championship, F = free style, Ba = bantam weight, back then up to 57 kg body weight)

• 1989, 1st place , Pan American Championship in Colorado Springs , F, Ba, in front of Osmel Rodriguez, Cuba , Oscar Bairon Munoz, Columbia u. Jorge Olvera, Mexico ;
• 1990, 3rd place , World Cup in Toledo (Ohio) , F, Ba, behind Ahmet Ak , Turkey a . Ruslan Karajew, Russia , in front of Osmel Rodriguez u. Robert Dawson, Canada ;
• 1991, 1st place , Pan American Games in Havana , F, Ba, in front of Alejandro Puerto Diaz , Cuba , Robert Dawson, Jorge Olvera u. Oscar Bairon Munoz;
• 1991, 2nd place , WM in Varna , F, Be, behind Sergei Smal , USSR , in front of Oveis Mallahi, Iran , Kim Jong-oh, South Korea , Tserenbaataryn Tsogtbajar , Mongolia and others. Béla Nagy , Hungary ;
• 1992, 1st place , "Roger-Coulon" Memorial in Carcassonne , F, Ba, in front of Karo Simonjan, Armenia , Kim Jong-oh u. Buslovic, Ukraine ;
• 1992, 4th place , World Cup in Saint Petersburg , F, Ba, behind Bagautdin Umachanow , Russia, Ali Akbar Dodangeh, Iran u. Ismail Zurnacci , Turkey;
• 1994, 3rd place , Goodwill Games in Moscow , F, Ba, behind Ismail Zurnacci u. Bagautdin Umachanow, in front of Alejandro Puerto Diaz u. Kim Jong-oh

swell

• Trade journal Der Ringer , numbers: 10/91, 5/1992
• Database of the Institute for Applied Training Sciences at the University of Leipzig
• University of Northern Iowa website

Web link

• Brad Penrith's profile at the Institute of Applied Exercise Science