Patricia Miranda

Patricia Noriko Miranda (born June 11, 1979 in Manteca , California ) is an American wrestler . She won a bronze medal in the weight class up to 48 kg body weight (KG) at the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens and was also vice world champion in 2000 and 2003.

Career

Patricia Miranda was born to a Brazilian immigrant couple. Her mother died when she was 10 years old. She attended Redwood Middle School and began wrestling at the age of 11. She then went to Saratoya High School, where she was forced to wrestle with boys on the school team, because women’s wrestling was just beginning and there were hardly any female opponents. She first had to overcome the resistance of her father, who did not like this fact. She was trained by Steve Buddie, Ray Bocker and Lloyd Asato at the time.

After high school, Patricia Miranda attended Stanford University. She completed her studies with a bachelor's degree in economics and a master's degree in political science and received her doctorate in 2007 from Yale Low School. the right one.

In 2004 she married Levi Weikel-Magden, who like her Dr. of the right and, together with the US national coach of the women's team Terry Steiner, took over the training of Patricia Miranda. Patricia Miranda and her husband live in New Haven, Connecticut . She trains almost exclusively in the training center of the US Wrestling Association in Colorado Springs .

In 1996 Patricia Miranda first took part in the US championship for senior women and took 4th place in the weight class up to 46 kg. Since then, she has participated in this championship every year up to the year 2008 up to the year 2005 and during this period she became a total of seven times US American champion in the weight classes up to 48 kg or 51 kg body weight.

In 2000 she took part in an international championship for the first time. She managed it at the World Championships in Sofia equal a great success, because it was behind the dominant Japanese Hitomi Sakamoto Vice World Champion .

Third in the 2001 US Championship, she was not used in the World Cup that year. In 2002 Patricia Miranda became American champion in Maracaibo Pan in the class up to 51 kg before Magdalena Arillano from Mexico and Flor Quispe Cordova from Peru . At the world championship this year in Chalkidis / Greece she lost her first fight against the Swede Ida Hellström with 2: 3 techn. Points. According to the rules of that time, the subsequent superior victory over the Mongolian Tsogtbadsaryn Enchdschargal (13: 1 technical points) was no longer of much use. She only came in 11th place.

In 2003 Patricia Mirandi won the Pan American Games in Santo Domingo in the class up to 48 kg in front of the strong Canadian Lindsay Belisle and Flor Quispe Cordova. At the subsequent World Cup in New York , she scored four victories and was thus in the final battle against multiple world champion Irina Melnik-Merleni from Ukraine . She delivered this enormously strong opponent a courageous fight and was only just defeated 4: 5 techn. Points. This was the second time she was vice world champion.

In 2004 Patricia Miranda qualified for participation in the Olympic Games in Athens , where women's wrestling was on the program for the first time in the history of the modern Olympic Games. In Athens she won over Li Hui from China , Larissa Oorzak from Russia and Mayelis Caripa Castillo from Venezuela , but lost again in the semifinals to Irina Melnik-Merleni , whose victory this time with 9-0 techn. Points was quite clear. In the subsequent battle for the bronze medal , Patricia Miranda managed an almost equally clear victory (12: 4 technical points) over the Frenchwoman Angélique Berthenet-Hidalgo .

After taking a break in 2005, she became US champion again in 2006 ahead of Jennifer S. Wong and again represented the United States at the World Championships in Guangzhou / China in the weight class up to 51 kg. With three wins and one defeat against Hitomi Sakamoto, she managed to win the bronze medal at the World Cup.

After she did not start at the 2007 World Cup, Patricia Miranda surprisingly failed at the US Olympic qualification to Clarissa Chun , whom she had defeated several times in her career. This blocked her way to Beijing . She resigned but is not still there in 2009.

International success

(OS = Olympic Games, WM = World Championship, KG = body weight)

2000, 2nd place , World Championships in Sofia , up to 51 kg, behind Hitomi Sakamoto , Japan , in front of Ida Hellström , Sweden , Inessa Rebar, Ukraine a . Jelena Egochina, Russia ;
2001, 4th place , World Cup in Levallois , up to 51 kg, behind Hitomi Sakamoto, Gao Yanzhi , China and Jelena Tolstenko, Russia, in front of Teresa Pearson, Canada ;
2002, 1st place , Pan American Championship in Maracaibo / Venezuela , up to 51 kg, ahead of Magdalena Arillano, Mexico and Flor Quispe Cordova , Peru ;
2002, 11th place , World Championships in Chalkidis / Greece , up to 48 kg body weight, after a defeat against Ida Hellström and a victory over Tsogtbadsaryn Enchjargal , Mongolia ;
2002, 1st place , New York Athletic Club Open, up to 48 kg, in front of Krista Wells u. Sandra Padron, both USA ;
2003, 3rd place , Pan American Championship in Guatemala , up to 48 kg KG, behind Mayelis Cariga Castillo , Venezuela a. Lindsay Belisle , Canada, in front of Flor Quispe Cordova;
2003, 3rd place , Klippan Ladies Open, up to 48 kg, behind Iryna Merleni , Ukraine and Brigitte Wagner , Germany , in front of Clarissa Chun , USA;
2003, 1st place , Pan-American Games in Santo Domingo , up to 48 kg body weight, in front of Lindsay Belisle, Flor Quispe Cordova u. Mayelis Caripa Castillo;
2003, 2nd place , World Championships in New York , up to 48 kg KG, with victories over Lindsay Belisle, Maria del Mar Peralta, Spain , Angélique Berthenet-Hidalgo , France a . Fani Psatha , Greece a. a loss to Iryna Merleni;
2003, 1st place , World Cup in Tokyo , up to 48 kg, ahead of Yang Zuying, China , Carol Huynh , Canada a. Larissa Oorzak , Russia;
2004, 1st place , "Dave Schultz" memorial in Colorado Springs , up to 48 kg body weight, in front of Brigitte Wagner, Lindsay Belisle and Clarissa Chun;
2004, 5th place , FILA test tournament in Athens , up to 48 kg, with victories over Juli Woitowa, Ukraine a. Sara Sanchez Parra, Spain, a loss to Chiharu Icho , Japan and a win over Angélique Berthenet-Hidalgo;
2004, 1st place , Klippan Ladies Open, up to 48 kg KG, ahead of Inga Karamtschatkowa , Russia, Fani Psatha u. Mersini Koloni, both Greece;
2004, 1st place , FILA- Manitoba -Open, up to 48 kg KG, ahead of Katie Kunimoto u. Sara Fulp-Allen , both USA;
2004, 1st place , "Alexander Medwed" tournament in Kiev , up to 48 kg body weight, with victories over Katsiaryina Wasilewskaja, Ukraine, Natalja Guschtschina, Russia, Eleonora Abutalipowa, Kazakhstan and Carol Huynh ;
2004, bronze medal , OS in Athens, up to 48 kg body weight, with victories over Li Hui , China, Larissa Oorzak u. Mayelis Caripa Castillo, a loss to Iryna Merleni u. a victory over Angélique Berthenet-Hidalgo;
2005, 2nd place , New-York-Athletic-Club-Open, up to 51 kg, behind Jennifer S. Wong u. before Mary Kelly, both USA, u. Belinda Chou, Canada;
2006, 1st place , Canada Cup in Guelph , up to 51 kg, in front of Li Hui u. Liao Rong, both China a. Erica Sharp , Canada;
2006, 3rd place , World Cup in Tokyo , up to 51 kg, behind Ren Xuecheng, China a. Hitomi Sakamoto, in front of Oleksandra Kohut , Ukraine a. Belinda Chou;
2006, 3rd place , World Championships in Guangzhou / China , up to 51 kg KG, with a victory over Marta Podeworna, Poland , a defeat against Hitomi Sakamoto, as well as victories over Bekzat Mustafa, Kazakhstan a. Oleksandra Kohut;
2007, 1st place , "Dave Schultz" memorial in Colorado Springs, up to 51 kg, in front of Jennifer S. Wong, Erica Sharp and others. Aljona Adaschinskaja , Russia;
2007, 2nd place , Guelph Open, up to 51 kg, behind Stefanie Murata , USA, in front of Belinda Chou;
2007, 1st place , World Cup in Krasnoyarsk , up to 51 kg, ahead of Zamira Rachmanowa, Russia, Ninako Hattori, Japan and Li Yaomei, China;
2007, 1st place , Golden-Grand-Prix in Tourcoing , up to 51 kg, in front of Anna Trusowa, Russia, Aurelia Bassett, France a. Jennifer S. Wong;
2008, 1st place , "Dave Schultz" memorial in Colorado Springs, up to 51 kg kg, in front of Jessie Bondy, Canada, Helen Maroulis u. Catherine Fulp-Allen, both USA, a. Alexandra Engelhardt , Germany;
2008, 1st place , "Alexander Medwed" tournament in Kiev , up to 48 kg, in front of Carol Huynh u. Tatiana Bogartschuk, Kazakhstan;
2009, 1st place , "Dave Schultz" memorial in Colorado Springs, up to 51 kg, in front of Jessie Bondy u. Alexandra Engelhardt

American championships

1996, 4th place, up to 46 kg,
1997, 5th place, up to 46 kg,
1998, 2nd place, up to 46 kg,
1999, 4th place, up to 48 kg,
2000, 1st place, up to 48 kg,
2001, 3rd place, up to 51 kg,
2002, 1st place, up to 51 kg,
2003, 1st place, up to 48 kg, in front of Clarissa Chun u. Caythrina Betts,
2004, 1st place, up to 48 kg, in front of Clarissa Chun u. Mary Kelly
2006, 1st place, up to 51 kg, ahead of Jennifer S. Wong
2007, 1st place, up to 51 kg,
2008, 1st place, up to 48 kg, ahead of Stephanie Murata

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Database of the Institute for Applied Training Sciences at the University of Leipzig,
Trade journal Der Ringer,
US Wrestling Association website,
Canadian Wrestling Association website,
Website "www.wrestlegirl.com",
Website "sports123.com"

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personal data
SURNAME	Miranda, Patricia
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Miranda, Patricia Noriko (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American wrestler
DATE OF BIRTH	June 11, 1979
PLACE OF BIRTH	Manteca , California