Christine Nordhagen

Christine Nordhagen (born June 26, 1971 in Grande Prairie , Alberta ) is a former Canadian wrestler . She was a six-time world champion and Olympic participant in 2004.

Career

Former athlete Christine Nordhagen, who has been called Nordhagen-Vierling since her marriage, only began wrestling at the age of 20, when a program to train women to wrestle was started at the University of Calgary . Women's wrestling, which is only wrestled in free style, only emerged in the 1980s. The trainers of this program were Mitch Ostberg and Leigh Vierling, who later became the husband of Christine Nordhagen. At a height of 1.71 meters, Christine Nordhagen was a very strong wrestler who always started in the high weight classes (up to 68/70 kg, 72 kg or 75 kg body weight).

In 1992 the first Canadian championships in women's wrestling were held and Christine Nordhagen won her first Canadian championship title, to which she added nine more by 2001.

Her international career began at the 1993 World Cup in Larvik / Norway . She took an excellent 2nd place in the class up to 70 kg body weight. In the final she lost to the vice world champion of 1992 Yayoi Urano from Japan . A year later, in 1994, she became world champion for the first time in the same weight class in Sofia . In the final, she defeated the Russian Elmira Kurbanowa .

In 1995 Christine Nordhagen reached the world championship in Moscow in the weight class up to 70 kg body weight behind Lise Golliot from France , Elmira Kurbanowa and Nina Englich from Germany only the 4th place. She compensated for this small failure by becoming world champion in the following three years in 1996, 1997 and 1998. 1996 in the weight class up to 70 kg and after a new division of the weight classes from 1997 in the weight class up to 68 kg body weight. She left behind such excellent competitors as Galina Iwanowa from Russia, Lise Golliot, Nina Englich, Yayoi Urano, Sandra Bacher from the United States and Stéphanie Groß from Germany.

At the 1999 World Championships in Bode / Hildursborg, Sweden , Christine Nordhagen moved up to the highest weight class in women's wrestling (up to 75 kg body weight) and was defeated there on points in the semifinals against the Japanese Kyoko Hamaguchi . As a result, she could only achieve 3rd place in the final bill. In the years 2000 and 2001, however, she showed again that she is the best wrestler in the world in the heaviest women's weight class, because she again became world champion in Sofia during these years . In 2001 she won her sixth world championship title. In 2001 she defeated u. a. Edita Witkowska from Poland and in 2001 Anita Schätzle from Germany (10: 4 technical points) and Toccara Montgomery from the United States (4: 1 technical points).

In 2002 Christine Nordhagen suffered a protracted injury that made it impossible for her to compete in the world championships in 2002 and 2003. It was only in 2004 that she was able to train so hard again that she could take part in the Olympic Games in Athens , where women's wrestling was on the program for the first time. However, she could not quite achieve her great shape of 2000 and 2001. She defeated in the Olympic tournament in Athens in the weight class up to 72 kg body weight (the weight class division had already been changed again). a. Toccara Montgomery and Anita Schätzle, however, only achieved 5th place after a defeat against the Chinese Wang Xu .

After these Olympics, Christine Nordhagen, who teaches math, sports and dance and lives in Valhalla Center, Alberta, ended her career as an active wrestler. She is now the wrestling coach at the University of Calgary and has also coached the Canadian national junior team since 2006.

In September 2006 Christine Nordhagen was inducted into the FILA International Wrestling Hall of Fame as the first woman .

International success

(OS = Olympic Games, WM = World Championship, KG = body weight)

• 1993, 2nd place , World Championships in Larvik / Norway , up to 70 kg body weight, behind Yayoi Urano , Japan a . before Chen Chiu-Ping, Taiwan , Elisabeth Hansen, Norway and Agnia Murawska, Lithuania ;
• 1994, 1st place , World Championships in Sofia , up to 70 kg body weight, ahead of Elmira Kurbanowa , Russia , Mihiko Miasaki, Japan, Tatjana Kamarnitzkaja, Ukraine and others. Nina Englich , Germany ;
• 1995, 4th place , World Championships in Moscow , up to 70 kg body weight, behind Lise Golliot , France , Elmira Kurbanowa u. Nina Englich, before Li Sha-Ling, Taiwan;
• 1996, 1st place , intern. German championship in Hanau , up to 75 kg, ahead of Nina Englich a. Gloria Hoog, bde. Germany;
• 1996, 1st place , World Championships in Sofia, up to 70 kg body weight, ahead of Galina Iwanowa, Russia, Lise Golliot, Sandra Bacher , USA a . Nina Englich;
• 1997, 1st place , Pan American Championship in San Juan , Puerto Rico , up to 68 kg KG, in front of Sandra Bacher u. Xiomara Guevara, Venezuela ;
• 1997, 1st place , World Championships in Clermont-Ferrand , up to 68 kg body weight, in front of Sandra Bacher, Nina Englich, Yayoi Urano u. Nina Strasser, Austria ;
• 1998, 1st place , Pan American Championship in Winnipeg , up to 75 kg, ahead of Ana Borregale, Venezuela;
• 1998, 1st place , World Championships in Poznan , up to 68 kg body weight, in front of Stéphanie Groß , Germany, Sandra Bacher, Anna Chamowa, Russia a. Evelina Pruszko, Poland ;
• 1999, 3rd place , World Championships in Bode / Hildursborg, Sweden , up to 75 kg, with victories over Marianna Amado, Venezuela, Edita Witkowska , Poland a. Elvira Barriga , Austria a. a loss to Kyoko Hamaguchi , Japan;
• 2000, 1st place , World Championships in Sofia, up to 75 kg body weight, ahead of Edita Witkowsaka, Kyoko Hamaguchi, Katerina Halova, Czech Republic a. Nina Englich;
• 2001, 1st place , World Championships in Sofia, up to 68 kg KG, with victories over Maider Unda Gonzales de Audicana, Spain , Xiomara Guevara, Anita Schätzle , Germany a. Toccara Montgomery , USA:
• 2003, 1st place , Grand Prix of Germany in Dormagen , up to 72 kg body weight;
• 2003, 2nd place , World Cup in Tokyo , up to 72 kg KG, behind Toccara Montgomery, in front of Kyoko Hamaguchi u. Bailing Ma, People's Republic of China ;
• 2004, 8th place , FILA test tournament in Athens , up to 72 kg, winner: Kyoko Hamaguchi ahead of Alexis Kourtelesi, Greece ;
• 2004, 1st place , Olympic qualification tournament in Tunis , up to 72 kg KG, ahead of Swetlana Sajenko , Ukraine and Güzäl Mänürowa , Russia;
• 2004, 1st place , Canada Cup in Guelph , Ontario , up to 72 kg, ahead of Ohenewa Akuffo , Canada a. Marianne Gastl, Austria;
• 2004, 1st place , Klippan Ladys Cup, up to 72 kg KG, ahead of Alena Starodubtsewa, Russia, Catherine Downing , USA a. Annika Oertli, Germany;
• 2004, 5th place , OS in Athens, up to 72 kg body weight, with victories over Katarzyna Jusczak, Poland, Toccara Montgomery u. Anita Schätzle u. a loss to Wang Xu , China;
• 2004, 2nd place , World Cup in Tokyo, up to 67 kg KG, behind Jelena Perepelkina , Russia, in front of Jing Rui Xue, China a. Catherine Downing

Canadian Championships

Christine Nordhagen was founded in 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2001 a. 2001 Canadian Champion; in 2003 she finished behind Ohenewa Akuffo u. Pam Wilson 3rd place.

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• Database of the Institute for Applied Training Sciences at the University of Leipzig,
• Trade journal Der Ringer,
• Canadian Wrestling Association website

Individual evidence

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Web links

• Profile of Christine Nordhagen at the Institute for Applied Training Science
• Christine Nordhagen in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )
• Christine Nordhagen's training program (English)