Nate Carr

Nathaniel "Nate" Carr (born June 24, 1960 in Erie , Pennsylvania ) is a retired American wrestler . He won the bronze medal at the 1988 Seoul Olympics in a free style lightweight.

Career

Nate Carr grew up in a wrestling family in his birthplace and had 15 siblings, five of whom indulged in wrestling. He visited the Erie Tech High School and began as a teenager with the rings . He wrestled exclusively in free style and was quite successful in those years. So he won 115 of 122 fights he played in high school. His first major success, with which he drew attention, was winning the Pennsylvania state championship in the lightweight.

From 1979 Nate Carr attended Iowa State University . There he developed enormously and won the NCAA Division I Collegiate Championships (= US student championship) in 1981, 1982 and 1983, which is very important in the United States. Because of these successes he was nominated for the world championships in Kiev in 1983. As a completely inexperienced wrestler on the international wrestling mat, he had to be content with the 8th place in the lightweight.

In the following years Nate Carr started because of weight problems in the welterweight division. In this weight class, however, he had unbeatable opponents in his own country in Kenneth Monday and David Schultz . Nevertheless, he came in 1986 at the Pan American Championships in Colorado Spings for use and took 1st place in the welterweight division.

Nate Carr started after his student days for the wrestling club Cyclone in Iowa City and later for the Sunkist Kids in Phoenix / Arizona .

At the Olympic Games in Seoul in 1988 , he trained again in the lightweight. He prevailed in the US Olympic elimination against Eddie Urbano and represented the US in Seoul in the lightweight. He fought very well there, but was defeated in the semifinals by Arsen Fadzayev from the Soviet Union . In the battle for the bronze medal , Nate Carr prevailed against the Japanese Kōsei Akaishi . In a preliminary round match, Nate Carr won against Alexander Leipold from Aschaffenburg , who was at the very beginning of his long and successful career, just by points.

In 1990 Nate Carr was once again at the lightweight world championships in Tokyo. He took 3rd place in his pool and then defeated the Turkish Kamil Kocaoğlu in the fight for 5th place in the overall result.

In 1991, Nate Carr ended his career as an active wrestler. From 1986 to 1998 he was an assistant coach at West Virginia University . He now lives in Jones County , Georgia . He volunteers there as a coach at Jones County High School. In 2003 he was inducted into the National Wrestling Hall of Fame for his services to wrestling . His son Nate Carr, Jr. is one of the great hopes of the US Wrestling Association.

successes

international

• 1983, 8th place , World Championships in Kiev , F, Le, winners: Arsen Fadsajew , USSR ahead of Bujandelgeriin Bold , Mongolia and Kamen Penew , Bulgaria ;

• 1986, 1st place , World Cup in Toledo , F, We, ahead of Raúl Cascaret Fonseca , Cuba , Anatoli Ponomarjew, USSR, Luwsangiin Enchbajar , Mongolia a. Geoff Marsh, Australia ;

• 1986, 1st place , Pan American Championship in Colorado Springs , F, We, ahead of Galdino Rodriguez, Mexico , Ken Bradford, Canada a . Pedro C. Murillo, Peru ;

• 1988, 2nd place , Pan American Championship, F, We, behind Alberto Rodriguez Hernandez, Cuba a. before Rick Dove, Canada, Galdino Rodriguez u. Felix Villalobos Isasola, Peru;

• 1988, bronze medal , OS in Seoul , F, Le, behind Arsen Fadsajew u. Park Jang-Soon , South Korea a . before Kōsei Akaishi , Japan, David McKay , Canada a. Jukka Rauhala , Finland ;

• 1989, 2nd place , World Cup in Toledo, F, Le, behind Arsen Fadsajew u. before Chris Wilson , Canada a. Jesus E. Rodriguez Garzon, Cuba;

• 1990, 5th place , World Cup in Tokyo , F, Le, behind Arsen Fadsajew, Georgios Athanasiadis , Greece , Jesus E. Rodriguez Garzon u. Kōsei Akaishi u. in front of Kamil Kocaoğlu , Turkey ;

• 1990, 2nd place , Grand Masters of Wrestling in Pittsburgh , F, Le, together with John Giura behind Arsen Fadsajew u. Boris Budayev , USSR

national

• 1981, 1st place, NCAA Champ., F, Le,
• 1982, 1st place, NCAA Champ., F, Le,
• 1983, 1st place, NCAA Champ., F, Le,
• 1987, 2nd place, AAU-Champ., F, We, behind David Schultz
• 1988, 1st place, AAU-Champ., F, Le,
• 1989, 1st place, AAU-Champ., F, Le,
• 1990, 1st place, AAU-Champ., F, Le

swell

• Trade journal Der Ringer , numbers: 10/1983, pages 4 to 6, 10/1988, page 12 and 10/1990, page 4
• Database of the Institute for Applied Training Sciences at the University of Leipzig
• NCAA Student Sports Association website - statistics section
• Amateur Athletic Union website - statistics section

Web links

• Profile of Nate Carr at the Institute for Applied Exercise Science
• Nate Carr in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Short biography in the National Wrestling Hall of Fame (English)
• Statistics in the National Wrestling Hall of Fame (English)