Erica Wiebe

Erica Elizabeth Wiebe (born June 13, 1989 in Stittsville, Ottawa ) is a Canadian wrestler . At a height of 1.75 m, her competition weight is 75 kg.

Life

Erica Wiebe grew up in Stittsville, a suburb of Ottawa. She began wrestling in 9th grade at Sacred Hearth Catholic High School in Ottawa, which she attended.

At the University of Calgary , she studied from 2007 to 2012 Movement Sciences ( "Kinesiology and Exercise Science" ). In 2012 she was named CIS Academic All-Canadians, an award for student athletes with a study result better than 80 percent. After completing her bachelor's degree in 2015, she graduated from the University of Calgary with a degree in sociology with a BA Hons . She is trained in Calgary by Paul Ragusa and Leigh Vierling .

successes

Erica Wiebe was able to win several events in freestyle wrestling , for example in the class up to 72 kg in 2012 the Canada Cup in Guelph and in 2013 the Nordhagen Classics in Calgary , the Battle at the Falls in Niagara Falls (Ontario) and the Wacław Ziółkowski Memorial in Spała . In freestyle wrestling up to 75 kg, for example, she won the Austrian Ladies Open in Götzis and the Ladies Open in Klippan in 2014, and the Ivan Yarygin Golden Grand Prix in Krasnoyarsk in 2015 . She won the BRD Grand Prix in Dormagen in her weight class in 2014, 2015 and 2016.

She won freestyle wrestling up to 75 kg at the 2014 Student World Championships in Pécs . At the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow , she also won the gold medal in freestyle wrestling up to 75 kg. She also succeeded in doing this at the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro .

Web links

• Homepage of Erica Wiebe (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Erica Wiebe on the website of Wrestling Canada Lutte, the Canadian sports association for Olympic wrestling (English)
2. ^ Canadian girls on the top of the championship . Article from July 10, 2014 on the website of the 2014 Student World Championships in Wrestling (archive version from August 19, 2016; English)