Bradley Vering

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Bradley Vering (born August 21, 1977 in Schuyler , Nebraska ) is an American wrestler . In 2007 he was runner- up in the Greco-Roman style middleweight division.

Career

Brad Vering started wrestling at the age of six. He attended Howells High School in Howells , Nebraska , where he played American football and wrestled . At first he wrestled in both styles, but soon concentrated on the Greco-Roman. Style. During this time he was three times student master of the state of Nebraska in Greco-Roman. Style in high school wrestlers.

He then attended the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, where he studied agriculture. He completed this degree in 2001. During his student days Brad Vering was twice NCAA champion of the United States (= American student champion). In 1997 it was used for the first time at an international championship, the Junior World Championship in Turku / Finland . He occupied there in Greco-Roman. Middleweight style with one win and two losses finished 15th.

In his previous career, Brad Vering et al. a. by Mark Cody, Tim Neumann, Lee Schroeder and Momir Petkovic , the coach of the US national team of wrestlers in Greco-Roman. Style, trained. He has been a member of the New York Athletic Club since 2002 , but mostly trains in the training center of the US. Wrestling Association in Colorado Springs .

Brad Vering, who has won the US middleweight championship four times so far, started regularly in international championships in 2002. At the World Championships in Cairo in 2002 and in Créteil / France in 2003 , he took a good 5th place. At the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens he started in the middleweight division, but lost both fights that he had to contest, namely against Mohamad Abd El Fatah from Egypt a . Muchran Vakhtangadze from Georgia and took 11th place.

Brad Vering was more successful at the Pan American Games and Championships. In 2007 he won the middleweight division in San Salvador and Rio de Janeiro , after he had already finished 2nd in 2003 in Guatemala and Santo Domingo .

He celebrated his greatest success so far in his wrestling career at the 2007 World Cup in Baku . He became vice world champion there . He got five wins. Among the wrestlers he defeated was u. a. also Jan Fischer from Germany . In the final he lost quite clearly with 0: 9 points against Alexei Mishin from Russia .

Brad Vering has been an assistant trainer at the University of Northern Iowa since 2006. He is currently preparing for the US. Elimination for the Olympic Games in Beijing . He hopes to be able to assert himself there against his toughest rival Jacob Clark , the 2006 US middleweight champion.

Bradley Vering managed to qualify for the Beijing Olympics. In Beijing he wrestled in the middleweight division and defeated the strong Pole Artur Michalkiewicz on points in the first round . In the next round he was defeated by the Armenian Dennis Forow on points. Since Forow did not get into the final, he was eliminated and finished in 12th place.

International success

(OS = Olympic Games, WM = World Championship, GR = Greco-Roman style, Wed = middle weight, up to 84 kg body weight)

swell

  • Trade journal Der Ringer from 1997 to 2008, in particular No. 10/2002, pages 4-7, 10/2003, pages 4-8, 09/2004, pages 5-9, 10/2005, pages 8-9 u. 10/2007, pages 5-7.
  • International Wrestling Database of the Institute for Applied Training Sciences at the University of Leipzig ,
  • US Wrestling Association website "www.themat.com"

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personal data
SURNAME Vering, Bradley
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American wrestler
DATE OF BIRTH August 21, 1977
PLACE OF BIRTH Schuyler , Nebraska