Kenneth Monday

Kenneth Dale "Kenny" Monday (born November 25, 1961 in Tulsa , Oklahoma ) is a retired American wrestler .

Career

Kenneth Monday grew up in Tulsa and started wrestling when he was six years old in a YMCA after-school program. His great role model was the 1972 Olympic champion Wayne Wells . He then attended Tulsa Washington High School and became a four-time schoolmaster of Oklahoma and won the 1977 USA Junior Freestyle Wrestling Championship. At Oklahoma State University, which he attended after high school, he continued his success in university wrestling. In 1985 he won his first USA championship in the seniors, but was not used internationally until 1988 because he had an extraordinarily good and successful competitor in his weight class in David Schultz , the 1984 Olympic champion . With David Schultz he literally "fought" for supremacy in the welterweight division in the USA and thus practically in the world until the mid-1990s . Kenneth Monday qualified for three Olympic Games, winning a gold and a silver medal. In addition to these successes, he also won many international tournaments against the toughest competition such as B. 1988 in Tbilisi , 1991 in Istanbul , 1992 in Paris and 1996 in Sofia . In 2001 he was inducted into the National Wrestling Hall of Fame for his services to wrestling .

Kenneth Monday now resides in Garland , Texas and has three children.

International success

(OS = Olympic Games, WM = World Championship, We = welterweight, back then up to 74 kg body weight, F = freestyle)

• 1988, gold medal , OS in Seoul , We, F, ahead of Adlan Warajew , USSR , Rahmat Sukra , Bulgaria, Luuzangiin Ehkhbayar, Mongolia and Pekka Rauhala, Finland ;
• 1989, 1st place , World Championships in Martigny / Switzerland , We, F, ahead of Arsen Fadsajew , USSR, Luuzangiin Ehkhbayar and Valentin Jelew, Bulgaria ;
• 1991, 1st place , Panamerican Games, We, F, ahead of Felipe Guzman, Mexico and Alberto Rodriguez, Cuba ;
• 1991, 2nd place , World Cup in Varna , We, F, behind Amir Reza Khadem Azghadi, Iran and in front of Nasir Gadschichanow , USSR, Alexander Leipold , Germany and Park Jang-soon , South Korea ;
• 1992, silver medal , OS in Barcelona , We, F, behind Park Jang-soon and in front of Amir Reza Khadem Azghadi, Magomed Gadschiew, GUS and Krzysztof Walencik, Poland ;
• 1996, 6th place , OS in Atlanta , W, F, behind Buwaissar Saitijew , Russia , Park Jang-soon, Takuya Ota, Japan , Plamen Paskalew, Bulgaria and Alexander Leipold

National successes

(NCAA = umbrella organization of the American university sports association)

• USA champions, We, F, in 1985, 1988, 1991 and 1996
• NCAA Champion Division I he was 1984, 1982 and 1983 he finished 2nd, We, F

Web links

• Kenneth Monday's profile at the Institute for Applied Exercise Science
• Kenneth Monday in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )
• Short biography in the National Wrestling Hall of Fame (English)
• Statistics in the National Wrestling Hall of Fame (English)