Martine Dugrenier

Martine Dugrenier, 2012

Martine Dugrenier (born June 12, 1979 in Montreal , Québec ) is a Canadian wrestler . From 2008 to 2010 she was world champion in the weight class up to 67 kg three times in a row .

Career

Martine Dugrenier began wrestling at Vanier College in Montreal in 1997 at the age of 18. She also studied at Concordia University in Montreal and became a member of the Concordia University Wrestling Club . She is also a member of the Montreal Wrestling Club . Your trainers were or are Rob Moore and Victor Zilberman. She is a physics teacher and lives in Laval , Quebec.

In 2001 she finished 5th in the Canadian women's championship in the weight category up to 68 kg, in which Christine Nordhagen was the winner. In November 2001 she won in the weight class up to 77 kg at a well-attended invitation tournament at Concordia University. In 2002 she was then for the first time Canadian student champion and finished in the Canadian championship in the weight class up to 72 kg behind Pam Wilson , but in front of Ohenewa Akuffo in 2nd place. She was Canadian runner-up in the weight class up to 67 kg in 2003. Martine Dugrenier was Canadian champion for the first time in 2004. After that, she won another seven Canadian championship titles in a row from 2005 to 2011, always in the weight class up to 67 kg.

In 2004 she became university (student) world champion in the weight class up to 67 kg in Łódź, in which she always competed, with the exception of the 2008 Olympic Games, ahead of Monika Maj from Poland and Waleria Slatowa from Ukraine . That was her first big success on the international wrestling mat. These successes continued over the next few years. In 2005 she won the Commonwealth Championships in Stellenbosch / South Africa and was runner-up at the World Championships in Budapest with three victories. In the final she lost to Meng Lili from China with 0: 2 rounds and 2: 5 technique points.

In 2006 she came in 3rd place at the University World Championships in Ulaanbaatar behind Gelegdschamtsyn Narantschimeg from Mongolia and Mami Shinkai from Japan. At the 2006 World Championships in Guangzhou / China she came back to 2nd place. In the final, another Chinese woman, Jing Ruixue , had to admit defeat by just a few points (0: 2 rounds, 1: 4 points). In 2007 she was again the winner of the Pan American Championships in San Salvador ahead of Elena Piroschkowa from the United States and at the 2007 World Championships in Baku she was again in the final and lost to a Chinese woman, Jung Rui Xue, on points for the third time (0 : 2 rounds, 1: 3 points).

In 2008, women's competitions were on the program in four weight classes at the Olympic Games in Beijing . Your traditional weight class up to 67 kg was not included. So she had to decide whether she wanted to start in the weight class up to 63 kg or in the weight class up to 72 kg, with the appropriate qualifications. She decided to train off, which was not easy for her with a height of 1.65 meters and a "normal weight" of around 70 kg. In Beijing she started in the weight class up to 63 kg after she had prevailed in the Canadian Olympic Trials. She won in Beijing in her first fight safely over Marianna Sastin from Hungary and in her second fight just 2: 1 rounds, in a technical. Score of 4: 4 over the Chinese Xu Haiyan . Then she lost just as tightly (1: 2 rounds, 2: 2 points) against the multiple Japanese world champion Kaori Icho . In this fight, she first won one round with 1-0 points, then the Japanese one with 1-0 points and in the third round Martine Dugrenier only lost the fight because the Japanese was just ahead of Dugrenier in a 1-0 point lead At the end of the round, the 1: 1 point equalization succeeded and through this last evaluation she also won the round and thus the fight. Unfortunately for her, Martine Dugrnier lost the fight for the Olympic bronze medal against the American Randi Miller , weakened by the training, whereby the result of the fight with 1: 2 rounds and 3: 3 technical points was just as tight as in the Fight against Kaori Icho.

In 2008 there were also world championships in Tokyo . Martine Dugrenier started again in the weight class up to 67 kg and won the world title for the first time with four victories, where she had to defeat four first-class opponents with Alexandra Boginskaja from Kazakhstan , Suman Kundu from India , Kateryna Burmistrowa from Ukraine and Mami Shinkai.

In 2009 she defended her title win at the World Championships in Herning / Denmark and became world champion again. She defeated Badrachyn Odontschimeg from Mongolia, Sumrud Gurbanhadschijewa from Azerbaijan , Kateryna Burmistrowa, Yoshiko Inoue from Japan and Julija Bartnowskaja from Russia . In 2010 she won her third consecutive world title at the World Championships in Moscow . She defeated Maja Gunvor Erlandsen from Norway , Mami Shinkai, Ifeoma Iheanacho from Nigeria and Jelena Schalygina from Russia.

Martine Dugrenier has been three times world champion and three times vice world champion in the weight class up to 67 kg. But what is still missing is an Olympic medal. She will therefore certainly continue her career until the 2012 Olympic Games in London .

In 2011 she competed at the World Championships in Istanbul . But this time she only came in 7th place in her traditional weight class because she lost to the Chinese Shelok Dolma after a victory over Tatiana Sakharova from Kazakhstan and also suffered a defeat in her first consolation round match against Adeline Gray from the United States.

In 2012, she trained in the Olympic weight class up to 63 kg and won the Olympic Games in London with a victory over Katherine Vidiaux Lopez from Cuba at a tournament in Kissimmee Orlando / USA . In London, she lost in her first fight against the multiple world champion in this weight class Kaori Icho from Japan. Since this was Olympic champion, Martine Dugrenier was able to continue in the consolation round. There she first defeated the European Champion 2012 Henna Johansson from Sweden, but lost the decisive fight for an Olympic bronze medal against Sorondsonboldyn Battsetseg from Mongolia and therefore missed this medal with a 5th place.

For her services to the sport of wrestling , she was inducted into the FILA International Wrestling Hall of Fame in August 2016 .

International success

year	space	competition	Weight class	Result
2002	3.	Guelph -Open	up to 72 kg	behind Ohenewa Akuffo and Pam Wilson , both Canada
2003	2.	Canada Cup in Guelph	up to 67 kg	behind Shannon Samler , in front of Megan Buydens , both Canada
2003	4th	World Cup in Tokyo	up to 67 kg	behind Kristie Marano , USA , Swetlana Martinenko, Russia and Norie Saito, Japan
2003	1.	Ontario Cup	up to 67 kg	in front of Sheri Hilliard, USA
2004	1.	Universities World Cup in Lodz	up to 67 kg	before Monika Maj, Poland , Walentina Slatowa , Ukraine and Susan Köller, Germany
2004	1.	Austrian Lady Open in Götzis	up to 67 kg	in front of Benita Zarzecka, Poland and Julia Weiß, Germany
2004	1.	Sunkist-Kids-International Open in Tempe / Arizona	up to 67 kg	before Catherine Downing , USA and Ali Bernard, Canada
2005	1.	Guelph Open	up to 67 kg	before Megan Buydens and Katrina Pitwanikwat, both Canada
2005	1.	Klippan Lady Open	up to 67 kg	before Catherine Downing, Sandra Stahl, Sweden and Julia Weiß
2005	1.	Canada Cup in Guelph	up to 67 kg	before Megan Buydens and Tara Hedican, both Canada
2005	1.	Commonwealth Championships in Stellenbosch / South Africa	up to 67 kg	before Sonja Coetzee, South Africa and Anita, India
2005	2.	World Cup in Budapest	up to 67 kg	after victories over Eri Sakamoto , Japan, Cathrine Downing and Ashlea McManus, Great Britain and a defeat against Meng Lili , China
2006	1.	Guelph Open	up to 67 kg	before Stephany Howorun, and Jull McCullum, both Canada
2006	1.	Trofeo Milone in Faenza	up to 67 kg	in front of Grabowska, Poland
2006	3.	Universities World Cup in Ulan Bator	up to 67 kg	behind Gelegdschamtsyn Narantschimeg , Mongolia and Mami Shinkai, Japan
2006	2.	World Cup in Guangzhou	up to 67 kg	after victories over Waleria Slatowa, Eri Sakamoto and Elena Diana Mudrag, Romania and a defeat against Jing Ruixue , China
2007	1.	Golden Grand Prix in Tourcoing	up to 67 kg	before Cathrine Downing and Anna Schamowa, Russia
2007	1.	Pan American Championships in San Salvador	up to 67 kg	before Elena Piroschkowa , USA and Gloria Zavala Lugo, Venezuela
2007	3.	German Grand Prix in Dormagen	up to 67 kg	behind Natalja Kuskina , Russia and Kristin Büttner, Germany
2007	2.	Austrian Lady Open in Götzis	up to 67 kg	behind Olga Chilko, Belarus , in front of Julia Weiss
2007	2.	World Cup in Baku	up to 67 kg	after victories over Caroline Cardoso de Lazzer, Brazil , Darja Karpenko, Kazakhstan and Natalja Kuksina and a defeat against Jing Ruixue
2008	1.	Guelph Open	up to 67 kg	ahead of Meaghan Wilton and Jessica Fitzgerald, both Canada
2008	1.	Pan American Championships in Colorado Springs	up to 63 kg	in front of Sandra Roa, Colombia and Tori Adams, USA
2008	1.	Canada Cup in Guelph	up to 67 kg	before Elena Piroschkowa and Adeline Gray, both USA
2008	1.	Spanish Grand Prix in Madrid	up to 67 kg	before Michaela Spoutsova, Czech Republic and Stephanie Meierhofer, Austria
2008	5.	OS in Beijing	up to 63 kg	after victories over Marianna Sastin , Hungary and Xu Haiyan, China and defeats against Kaori Icho , Japan and Randi Miller , USA
2008	1.	World Cup in Tokyo	up to 67 kg	after victories over Alexandra Boginskaja , Kazakhstan, Suman Kundu , India, Kateryna Burmistrowa , Ukraine and Mami Shinkai
2009	1.	Pan American Championships in Maracaibo	up to 67 kg	before Gloria Zavala Lugo and Aline da Silva Ferreira, Brazil
2009	1.	Canada Cup in Guelph	up to 67 kg	before Elena Piroschkowa and Adeline Gray, both USA
2009	1.	Spanish Grand Prix in Madrid	up to 67 kg	in front of Sandra Makela, Sweden
2009	1.	World Cup in Herning / Denmark	up to 67 kg	after victories over Badrachyn Odontschimeg , Mongolia , Sumrud Gurbanhadschijewa , Azerbaijan , Kateryna Burmistrowa, Yoshiko Inoue , Japan and Julija Bartnowskaja , Russia
2010	1.	German Grand Prix in Dormagen	up to 67 kg	before Maja Gunvor Erlandsen and Jenny Aardalen, both Norway
2010	1.	Great Britain Cup in Sheffield	up to 67 kg	before Sara Connolly and Emily Gittins, both UK
2010	1.	World Cup in Moscow	up to 67 kg	after victories over Maja Gunvor Erlandsen, Mami Shinkai, Ifeoma Iheanacho , Nigeria and Jelena Schalygina , Russia
2011	1.	Austrian Lady Open in Götzis	up to 67 kg	before Megan Buydens and Timea Siroki, Hungary
2011	1.	German Grand Prix in Dormagen	up to 67 kg	before Mariana Kolic, France, Nadine Weinauge, Germany and Marianna Sastin , Hungary
2011	1.	Spanish Grand Prix in Madrid	up to 67 kg	in front of Elena Balzer, Germany, Kristina Andersen, Norway and Sarah Jones, Scotland
2011	7th	World Cup in Istanbul	up to 67 kg	after a victory over Tatiana Sakharova, Kazakhstan and defeats to Shelok Dolma, China and Adeline Gray, USA
2012	1.	Olympic qualification tournament in Khissimmee Orlando / USA	up to 63 kg	in front of Katherine Vidiaux Lopez, Cuba, Luz Vazquez, Argentina and Sandra Roa Velandi, Colombia
2012	1.	German Grand Prix in Dortmund	up to 67 kg	before Aline Focken , Germany, Dorothy Yeats , Canada and Kristina Feoraschko, Belarus
2012	1.	Torneo Citta a Sassari	up to 67 kg	before Dorothy Yeats
2012	5.	OS in London	up to 63 kg	after losing to Kaori Icho, Japan, defeating Henna Johansson, Sweden and losing to Sorondsonboldyn Battsetseg , Mongolia

Canadian Championships

year	space	Weight class	Result
2001	5.	up to 68 kg	Winner: Christine Nordhagen
2002	2.	up to 72 kg	behind Pam Wilson , in front of Ohenewa Akuffo
2003	2.	up to 67 kg	behind Shannon Samler , in front of Megan Dolan
2004	1.	up to 67 kg	before Viola Yanik and Shannon Samler
2005	1.	up to 67 kg	before Megan Buydens and Stefanie Howorun
2006	1.	up to 67 kg	before Megan Buydens and Stefanie Howorun
2007	1.	up to 67 kg	before Megan Buydens and Stefanie Buchan
2008	1.	up to 67 kg	before Megan Buydens and Vanessa Wilson
2009	1.	up to 67 kg	before Vanessa Wilson and Meaghan Wilton
2010	1.	up to 67 kg	before Megan Buydens and Lis Williams
2011	1.	up to 67 kg	before Megan Buydens and Amy Dyck

Explanations

• all free style competitions
• OS = Olympic Games, WM = World Championships

swell

• Trade journal Der Ringer
• Database of the Institute for Applied Training Sciences at the University of Leipzig
• Canadian Wrestling Association website
• US Wrestling Association website

Individual evidence

1. ↑ United World Wrestling to Induct 15 into 2016 Hall of Fame Class , accessed April 17, 2017 (English)

Web links

• Profile of Martine Dugrenier at the Institute for Applied Training Science
• Award ceremony at the 2010 World Cup