James Haines

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James Haines (born October 20, 1954 in Arcadia , Wisconsin ) is a retired American wrestler . He was runner-up in 1979 in free style in the flyweight .

Career

Jim Haines, as he was always called, began as a teenager with rings and visited in 1974, the University of Wisconsin-Madison . There he received the finishing touches from coach Duane Kleven, which made him a world-class athlete in free style. Already in 1974 and 1975 Jim was one of the ten best US university wrestlers, was runner-up in 1976 and US master of student wrestling (NCAA Div. I Champion) in flyweight in 1977. 1974 brought Haines for his home club Arcadia , Wisconsin , the US runner-up of the AAU (American Athletes Union). In 1976 and 1978 he was USA champion in this association.

For his first appearance in an international championship, Jim came to the Pan American Games in 1975 in Mexico City . He came in second behind the Cuban Eloy Abreu . In 1976 he won the US Olympic elimination and started at the Olympic Games in Montreal . But he won a fight there and took 9th place.

At his next start at a world championship he came in 1978 in Mexico City on the thankless 4th place. He lost to Hartmut Reich from Jena and Luis Ocaña Zulueta from Cuba .

A year later at the World Championships in San Diego , Jim Haines was in great shape. Among other things, he defeated the world champion from 1978 Anatoly Beloglasow from the Soviet Union and also won the rematch against Hartmut Reich. In the final, however, he lost to the 1976 Olympic champion and three-time world champion Yūji Takada from Japan on points. For this good performance he was rewarded with the vice world champion title.

In 1980 Haines won the US Olympic Trials again, but could not start at the Olympic Games in Moscow because the United States boycotted these Games.

After 1980, Haines ended his career as an active wrestler. He was a coach at Coachrane-Fontaine-City, then Laona High School, and now resides in Pepin , Wisconsin, where he teaches wrestling classes.

successes

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)

  • 1977, 3rd place , World Cup in Toledo / USA , F, F. behind Kiyoto Shimizu, Japan a. Roman Dmitriew , USSR a. before Albert Tschirhart, Canada;
  • 1978, 1st place , World Cup in Toledo / USA, F, Fl, in front of Kamitsu Kariba, Japan, Alexander Iwanow u. Juan Rodriguez, Cuba;

USA championships

  • 1974, 2nd place, F, Fl, behind Sergio Gonzalez u. in front of Heikichi Hadegawa,
  • 1975, 2nd place, F, Fl, behind John Morley u. before Randy Miller,
  • 1976, 1st place, F, Fl, before John Morley u. Ed Knecht,
  • 1978, 1st place, F, Fl, before Mike Mc Arthur u. Peter Morelli,
  • 1979, 3rd place, F, Ba, behind Joe Corso u. John Azevedo
  • 1980, 3rd place, F, Ba, behind Joe Corso u. Gene Mills

US-amer. Student championships

  • 1976, 2nd place, F, Fl, behind Mark DiGirolamo,
  • 1977, 1st place, F, Fl, before Mike Mc Arthur u. Gene Mills

swell

  • 1) Div. Issues of the journals "Athletik" from 1974 to 1975 and "Der Ringer" from 1976 to 1980,
  • 2) International Wrestling Database of the University of Leipzig,
  • 3) US Wrestling Association website

Web links

personal data
SURNAME Haines, James
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American wrestler
DATE OF BIRTH October 20, 1954
PLACE OF BIRTH Arcadia , Wisconsin