Kevin Jackson

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Kevin Jackson
medal table

Wrestling

United States
Olympic games
gold 1992 Barcelona medium
World Championship
gold 1991 Varna medium
gold 1995 Atlanta medium
Pan American Games
gold 1991 Havana medium
gold 1995 Mar del Plata medium
Pan American Championship
gold 1990 Colorado Springs medium

Kevin Andre Jackson (born November 25, 1964 in Highland Falls , New York ) is a retired American wrestler and current coach.

Career

Kevin Jackson began wrestling at Lansing Eastern High School in 1978. He was exceptionally talented and developed at Louisiana State University, which he then attended, under coach Larry Sciatchetano to an excellent freestyle wrestler, who occasionally also in Greco-Roman. Style rang. With a height of 1.75 m, he grew up to be a very powerful middleweight. He achieved his first major success in 1982 when he was the American junior welterweight champion, Greco-Roman. Style, was. From 1983 to 1987 he won three medals at the US student championships in free style (NCAA Division I Collegiate Championships), with the 2nd place in 1987 in the welterweight division being his best result.

Jackson began his international wrestling career with a free style middleweight win at the Pan American Championships in Colorado Springs , to which he added a second win the next year at the Pan American Games in Havana . In 1991 he also became world middleweight champion. In the final he defeated the Czech Jozef Lohyňa just on points. In a pool fight he had previously beaten the German champion Hans Gstöttner 4-1 on points.

At the 1992 Olympic Games in Barcelona he celebrated his greatest success by winning the gold medal, but was lucky that he had the judges on his side, because according to the course of the fight his final opponent Elmadi Jabrailow from Russia could just as well have been declared the winner .

At the 1993 World Cup in Toronto , Jackson could not defend his 1991 world title. He lost in the pool final against Sebahattin Öztürk from Turkey and in the fight for 3rd place also against Ruslam Kinchagow from Uzbekistan and had to make do with 4th place.

Jackson did even worse at the 1994 World Cup in Istanbul . He was eliminated early after two defeats and only came in 11th place. In 1995 he came back in impressive style. In Atlanta he won his second world title, with his final victory over Elmadi Schabrailow this time well deserved.

In 1996 Jackson was unable to take part in the Atlanta Olympics due to injury. He therefore ended his career as an active wrestler in 1997 and worked for a short time as a professional wrestler. In 1999 he became the coach of the US national wrestling team and was also the head coach of the US Olympic team in 2004. After he was inducted into the National Wrestling Hall of Fame in 2003, he was inducted into the FILA International Wrestling Hall of Fame in September 2005 .

Jackson now resides in Colorado Springs with his wife and three children.

International success

(all competitions in free style, OS = Olympic Games, WM = World Championship, welterweight and middleweight, back then up to 74 kg or 82 kg body weight)

year space competition Weight class
1989 1. “Yasar Dogu” memorial in Istanbul medium before Alexander Sawko , USSR and Erol Yildirim, Turkey
1990 1. Pan American Championship in Colorado Springs medium before Justin Abdou, Canada and Orlando Hernandez, Cuba
1991 1. Pan American Games in Havana medium before Orlando Hernandez and David Hohl, Canada
1991 1. World Cup in Varna medium ahead of Jozef Lohyňa , Czechoslovakia , Sebahattin Öztürk , Turkey , Rassul Katinowassow , USSR , Robert Kostecki, Poland and Alcide Legrand , France
1992 gold OS in Barcelona medium in front of Elmadi Jabrailow , CIS , Rasoul Khadem , Iran , Hans Gstöttner , Germany , Lohyna and Öztürk
1993 1. World Cup tournament in Chattanooga / USA medium before Ariel Ramos, Cuba and Kidekazu Yokoyama, Japan
1993 4th World Cup in Toronto medium behind Sebahattin Öztürk , Sagid Katinowassow and Ruslam Kinchagow , Uzbekistan and in front of Laszlo Dvorak, Hungary and David Khourzia, Georgia
1994 3. World Cup tournament in Edmonton medium behind Amir Reza Khadem , Iran and Rassul Katinowassow
1994 11. World Cup in Istanbul medium Winner: Luchman Jabrailow (brother of Elmadi Jabrailow), Republic of Moldova ahead of Öztürk and Hans Gstöttner
1995 1. Pan American Games in Mar del Plata medium before Luis Varela, Venezuela and Ariel Ramos, Cuba
1995 1. World Cup tournament in Chattanooga medium before Rustam Kelekschajew , Russia and Yalcin Özdemir, Turkey
1995 1. World Cup in Atlanta medium before Elmadi Dschabrailow, Kinchagow, Dvorak, Magomed Ibragimow , Azerbaijan and Öztürk
1997 1. “Yasar Dogu” memorial in Istanbul medium before Elder Asanow, Ukraine, Ali Reza Keser, Turkey and David Bichinashvili , Georgia
1997 1. World Cup tournament in Stillwater / USA medium in front of Andre Backhaus , Germany and Yoel Romero Palacio, Cuba

USA championships

Kevin Jackson won the USA senior free style championship in 1991, 1993 and 1995, respectively, in the middleweight division.

swell

  • International Wrestling Database of the University of Leipzig
  • various issues of the specialist magazine "Der Ringer" from 1990 to 1997
  • National Wrestling Hall of Fame and Museum website (www.wrestlinghalloffame.org)

Individual evidence

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personal data
SURNAME Jackson, Kevin
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Jackson, Kevin Andre
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American wrestler and coach
DATE OF BIRTH November 25, 1964
PLACE OF BIRTH Highland Falls , New York