Kerry McCoy

Kerry R. McCoy (born August 2, 1974 in Riverhead , Long Island , New York ) is a retired American wrestler . He was runner-up in the world championship in 2003 and an Olympian in 2000 and 2004 in the free style in heavyweight division.

Career

Kerry McCoy attended Middle Island, New York High School and began wrestling there in 1987. As a high school wrestler, he played 168 free style bouts, of which he won 150. He then attended Pennsylvania State University . He also became a member of the New York Athletic Club at this point . At a height of 1.88 meters, he had grown into a full heavyweight of about 125 kg body weight (KG). His coaches were Hachiro Oishi, Greg Strobel and Kevin Jackson.

The international wrestling career of Kerry McCoy began in 1990 when he finished 2nd behind Lucka Kochija from the Soviet Union at the Junior World Championships (Cadets) in Szombathely in the weight class up to 83 kg . In 1992 he even became Junior World Champion in Cali , Colombia in the weight class up to 88 kg, ahead of Miguel Molina Domínguez from Cuba and Şaban Seçkin from Turkey .

In 1993 he won the USA student championship of the AAU (Amateur Athletes Union) and was then used at the Pan American Games of that year in the heavyweight division (up to 100 kg). He won there before Wayne Weathers from Canada and Luis Marquez from Puerto Rico .

After 1993, Kerry McCoy's international career was interrupted for five years. The reason for this was Bruce Baumgartner , the outstanding American super heavyweight freestyle wrestler of those years, Olympic champion and multiple world champion, who did not vacate a starting place for Kerry McCoy.

He was able to achieve some further successes on a national level, especially as a student wrestler. He became NCAA champion in 1994, came 3rd in these championships in 1995 and won the title at the NCAA Championships for the second time in 1997 (NCAA = American University Sports Association). Between 1994 and 1999, he also always placed in the front of the field at the US championships. In 1996 and 1997 he was runner-up.

After Bruce Baumgartner's resignation, Kerry Mc Coy won the 1998 World Championship elimination from Tolly Thompson and was therefore able to compete in a World Championship for the first time this year. In Tehran he defeated three top-class athletes in the heavyweight division: Andrei Schumulin from Russia , Sven Thiele from Germany and Aydın Polatçı from Turkey. In the semifinals he lost to Alexis Rodríguez Valera from Cuba. In the final battle for the bronze medal, he met Andrei Schumilin again and lost with 0: 3 technical points. As a World Cup debutant, he was very satisfied with 4th place in view of the extremely strong competition.

1999 came Kerry McCoy both in the USA championship, as well as in the world championship trials behind Stephen Neal in each case on the 2nd place and was not used in the world championship. He won the World Cup in Spokane that year . He won over Ebrahim Mehrabi from Iran , Wayne Weathers from Canada, Sven Thiele and Alexis Rodríguez Valera.

In 2000 he was the first American heavyweight champion. He repeated this success four times until 2004. His main rivals were Tolly Thompson, Stephen Neal, Tom Eriksson , Steve Mocco and Thomas Rowlands . He also won the 2000 Olympic Trials and thus won a place in the Olympic Games in Sydney . There he first won over Mirabi Valiyev from Ukraine and Racab Aşabalıyev from Azerbaijan and lost in the quarterfinals to Artur Taymazov , who later won the silver medal and was Olympic champion in 2004 and 2008, just under 9:11. Points. With another victory over Aljaksej Mjadswedseu from Belarus, he still fought for fifth place.

In 2001, Kerry McCoy represented the United States again at the World Cup in Sofia . After victories over Ottó Aubéli from Hungary and Gelegschamtsyn Ösöchbajar from Mongolia , he lost to David Musuľbes from Russia and Alexis Rodríguez Valera and came in fourth.

In 2002 he won the World Championship trials again. His opponent was Thomas Rowlands. At the World Cup that year in Tehran he could not start because the United States did not send wrestlers to this championship. In 2003 he was back at the World Cup in New York . He won there over Duane van Staden from South Africa , Davud Məhəmmədov from Azerbaijan, Marid Mutalimow from Kazakhstan and Alireza Rezaei from Iran and was only defeated in the final against Artur Taymazov, with which he won the World Cup silver medal.

In 2004 Kerry McCoy started for the second time at the Olympic Games after winning the Olympic Trials in front of Tolly Thompson in Athens . After victories over Francesco Miano-Petta from Italy and Juri Mildzikow from Kyrgyzstan, he lost in his third fight against Marid Mulatimow, with which he was eliminated and finished seventh.

After these games he announced his retirement from wrestling. He had been an assistant coach at Pennsylvania State University since 1997 . From 2005 to 2008 he was the head coach at Stanford University and since 2009 he has been the head coach at the University of Maryland . He also coached the wrestlers of Lehigh Valley AC in Bethlehem , Pennsylvania and the Terrapin Wrestling Club College Park , MD. In addition, he was the head coach of the US freestyle team at two world championships and also held important functions in the US wrestling association. He lives with his family in Palo Alto .

International success

year	space	competition	Weight class
1990	2.	Junior World Championships in Szombathely	up to 83 kg body weight	behind Lucka Kochija, Soviet Union , in front of Miguel Molina Domínguez, Cuba a . Csaba Virág, Hungary
1992	1.	Junior World Championships in Cali , Colombia	up to 88 kg body weight	before Miguel Molina Domínguez u. Şaban Seçkin, Turkey
1993	1.	Pan American Championship	Heavy	before Wayne Weathers , Canada a . Luis Marquez, Puerto Rico
1998	2.	Goodwill Games in New York City	Heavy	behind Andrei Schumilin , Russia , in front of Aydın Polatçı , Turkey, Rasoul Khadem u. Alireza Rezaei , bde. Iran
1998	4th	World Cup in Tehran	Heavy	with victories over Sven Thiele , Germany a . Andrei Schumilin, a defeat against Alexis Rodríguez Valera , Cuba , a victory over Aydın Polatçı u. a loss to Andrei Shumilin
1999	1.	World Cup in Spokane	Heavy	with victories over Sven Thiele, Alexis Rodríguez Valera, Wayne Weathers u. Ebrahim Mehrabi, Iran
2000	1.	World Cup in Fairfax	Heavy	before Oleg Chorpjakow, Russia, Alireza Rezaei and Mirabi Valiev , Ukraine
2000	1.	Pan American Championship	Heavy	in front of Gamalier Coats Caleano, Dom. Rep. U. Alexis Rodríguez Valera
2000	5.	OS in Sydney	Heavy	with victories over Mirabi Valiev u. Racab Aşabalıyev , Azerbaijan , a loss to Artur Taymazov , Uzbekistan u. a victory over Alyaksey Myadswedseu , Belarus
2001	1.	Manitoba -Open	Heavy	before Eric Kirschner u. Carl Panero, bde. Canada
2001	1.	World Cup in Baltimore	Heavy	before Aydın Polatçı, Ebrahim Mehrabi u. Nikolai Telegin, Russia
2001	4th	World Cup in Sofia	Heavy	with victories over Ottó Aubéli , Hungary a. Gelegschamtsyn Ösöchbajar , Mongolia a . Defeats against David Musuľbes , Russia a. Alexis Rodríguez Valera
2002	1.	World Cup in Spokane	Heavy	before Oleg Chorpjakow, Gelegschamtsyn Ösöchbajar u. Sven Thiele
2003	1.	Titan Games in San José	Heavy	in front of Alexis Rodríguez Valera
2003	3.	World Cup in Boise	Heavy	behind Sven Thiele u. Kuramagomed Kuramagomedow , Russia, in front of Serhiy Prjadun , Ukraine
2003	2.	Tournament in Tashkent	Heavy	behind Artur Taymazov, Uzbekistan , in front of Jamal Esmail, Qatar a . Nikolai Telegin
2003	1.	Pan American Games in Santo Domingo	Heavy	before Edgar A. Bearre Yaner, Venezuela a . Alexis Rodríguez Valera
2003	2.	World Cup in New York	Heavy	with victories over Duane van Staden, South Africa , Davud Məhəmmədov , Azerbaijan, Marid Mutalimow , Kazakhstan a. Alireza Rezaei et al. a loss to Artur Taymazov
2004	1.	Manitobe Open	Heavy	before Chrix Cox u. Derek Lauder, bde. Canada
2004	7th	OS in Athens	Heavy	with victories over Francesco Miano-Petta, Italy a . Juri Mildzikow, Kyrgyzstan a . a loss to Marid Mutalimov

Note: all competitions in free style, heavyweight, up to 1996 up to 100 kg body weight, then up to 130 kg or from 2002 up to 120 kg body weight, OS = Olympic Games, WM = World Championship

National successes

year	space	competition	Weight class
1993	1.	USA Jun Student Championship	Heavy
1994	1.	NCAA championships	Super heavy	before Justin Greenlee u. Tony Vaughn
1994	4th	USA championship	Super heavy	1. Bruce Baumgartner
1995	3.	NCAA championships	Super heavy	behind Tolly Thompson u. Justin Greenlee
1995	3.	USA championship	Super heavy	1. Bruce Baumgartner
1996	2.	USA championship	Super heavy	behind Bruce Baumgartner
1997	1.	NCAA championships	Heavy	before Stephen Neal et al. Tolly Thompson
1997	2.	USA championship	Heavy	behind Tom Eriksson
1998	5.	USA championship	Heavy	1. Tolly Thompson
1998	1.	World Championship trials	Heavy	before Tolly Thompson
1999	3.	USA championship	Heavy	behind Stephen Neal u. Tolly Thompson
1999	2.	World Championship trials	Heavy	behind Stephen Neal
2000	1.	USA championship	Heavy	before Stephen Neal, Tolly Thompson a. Tom Eriksson
2000	1.	Olympic trials	Heavy	before Stephen Neal
2001	1.	USA championship	Heavy	before Tolly Thompson, Angelo Borzio u. Thomas Rowlands
2001	1.	World Championship trials	Heavy	before Stephen Neal et al. Tolly Thompson
2002	1.	USA championship	Heavy	before Tolly Thompson u. Brian Keck
2002	1.	World Championship trials	Heavy	before Thomas Rowlands
2003	1.	USA championship	Heavy	before Tolly Thompson u. Brian Keck
2003	1.	World Championship trials	Heavy	before Tolly Thompson
2004	1.	USA championship	Heavy	before Steve Mocco u. Tolly Thompson
2004	1.	Olympic trials	Heavy	before Tolly Thompson

Note: all competitions in the free style, super heavyweight, up to 1996 up to 130 kg body weight, then abolished, heavy weight, from 1997 to 2001 up to 130 kg, from 2002 up to 120 kg body weight

swell

• Database of the Institute for Applied Training Sciences at the University of Leipzig,
• Trade journal Der Ringer ,
• US Wrestling Association website,
• Website "www.wrestlinghalloffame.org"

Web links

• Profile of Kerry McCoy at the Institute of Applied Exercise Science
• Kerry McCoy in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Website by Kerry McCoy
• Portrait of Kerry McCoy at the University of Maryland (English)