Ross Flood
Ross Aaron Flood (born December 28, 1910 in Braman , Kay County , † May 23, 1995 in Stillwater , Payne County , Oklahoma ) was an American wrestler . He was an Olympic silver medalist from Berlin in 1936 .
Career
Ross Flood began wrestling with his brother John at a high school in Blackwell , Oklahoma . He later moved to Oklahoma State University - Stillwater and was trained there by coach Edward C. Gallagher to become an excellent freestyle wrestler. As was common in the United States at the time, Ross wrestled mainly for his university.
From 1933 to 1935 he won the American University Championship (NCAA Collegiate Championships) in free style bantamweight. In 1935 and 1936 he also became USA champion in the bantamweight, free style, hosted by the Amateur Athletic Union . In 1936 he won the Olympic Trials for the Olympic Games in Berlin . There he fought in bantamweight, free style , etc. a. with a victory over the four-time Swedish European champion Herman Tuvesson , until the final, in which he lost decisively against the Hungarian Ödön Zombori .
In 1937 he also won the bantamweight title at the Pan American Exposition in Dallas . Further international starts were hardly possible for him, because at that time there were neither world championships nor Pan American games or championships in wrestling.
After that, Ross Flood was a high school wrestling coach in Stillwater and a World War II PE teacher in the United States Navy . From 1946 he was a very successful coach at Southwestern Oklahoma State University . In 1978 he was inducted into the National Wrestling Hall of Fame for his services to wrestling .
International success
- 1936, silver medal , Olympic Games in Berlin , bantamweight, free style, with victories over Enrique Jurado, Philippines , Shankarrao Thorat, India , Cesar Gaudard, Switzerland , Aatos Jaskari , Finland and Herman Tuvesson , Sweden and one defeat against Ödön Zombori , Hungary
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- Documentation of International Wrestling Championships
- various issues of the specialist magazine "Athletik" from 1936
- Ross Flood in the Wrestling Hall of Fame
Web links
- Profile of Ross Flood at the Institute for Applied Exercise Science
- Ross Flood 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)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Flood, Ross |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Flood, Ross Aaron (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American wrestler |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 28, 1910 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Braman , Kay County |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 23, 1995 |
| Place of death | Stillwater , Payne County , Oklahoma |