Shawn Sheldon

Shawn Rodney Sheldon (born November 18, 1964 in Norwich , Connecticut ) is a retired American wrestler . He was runner-up in the Greco-Roman style flyweight championship in 1991.

Career

Shawn Sheldon, now a West Palm Beach , Fla., Resident began wrestling as a teenager at Columbia Voorheesville High School in 1976. He specialized in the Greco-Roman style and booked his first success with a 3rd place at the High School Championships in New York . In 1986 he won the NCAA Div. III National Flyweight Championship (USA Student Championship). He started for the SUNY (State University of New York), which he visited in the meantime. In addition to wrestling at university, Shawn also started for the AAU New York Athletic Club and won the USA championship in paper and flyweight eight times over the following years.

Shawn made his debut on the international wrestling mat in 1982 at the World Youth Championship in Colorado Springs , where he finished 4th in the paperweight division. In addition to many starts at major international World Cup tournaments, in which Shawn mostly achieved excellent results, he also started four times at the Pan American Games and won four medals. However, he was not granted a victory.

In 1990 he started for the first time at a world championship for seniors in Rome and took 6th place in the flyweight division. A year later, at the 1991 World Cup in Varna , Shawn achieved his greatest international success by winning the runner-up title. In the final he was defeated by the Cuban Raúl Martínez Alemán , to whom he was also defeated at the Pan-American Games of the same year.

At the 1992 Olympic Games in Barcelona , Shawn just missed a medal with fourth place in the flyweight division. In the battle for the bronze medal, he lost to the Korean Cape Min-Kyung .

Shawn achieved a very good result with 5th place in the flyweight division at the 1995 World Championships in Prague . In the qualification for the Olympic Games 1996 Shawn failed to Brandon Paulson .

Shawn Sheldon could be seen with different results on the international wrestling mats until the year 2000. From 1991, however, he was already working as a wrestling trainer at SUNY and later at other universities. He has also been the coach of the New York Athletic Club for years and recently coach of the US national team in the Greco-Roman style. In 2005 he was named the best US coach in the Greco-Roman style. He is also a member of the Athletes' Commission in the US Wrestling Association.

International results

(OS = Olympic Games, WM = World Championship, GR = Greco-Roman style, Pa = paper weight, Fl = fly weight, at that time up to 48 kg or 52/54 kg body weight)

• 1982, 4th place , World Youth Championships in Colorado Springs , GR, Pa, behind Sergej Buranow, USSR , Kim Jin-Won, Korea and Shi Long, PR China ;
• 1983, 5th place , Junior World Championships in Kristiansund / Norway , GR, Pa, behind Ilie Muti, Romania , Iwan Samtajew , USSR, Jon Rønningen , Norway and Ortze Ortzew , Bulgaria ;
• 1985, 5th place , World Cup in Lund / Sweden , GR, Fl, behind Sergej Dudajew, USSR, Hidekaru Okawa, Japan, Mario Olivares, Cuba and Stefan Oehrn, Sweden;
• 1986, 6th place , World Cup in Oak Lawns / USA , GR, Fl, behind Alexander Ignatenko , USSR, Pedro Roque, Cuba, Toshikazu Fujinami, Japan, László Bíró , Hungary and Lewis Dorrance, USA;
• 1987, 3rd place , Pan American Games in Indianapolis , GR, Fl, behind Pedro Roque and Bernardo Olvera, Mexico ;
• 1988, 2nd place , World Cup in Athens , GR, Fl, behind Andrij Kalaschnykow , USSR and in front of Reinaldo Jiminez, Cuba;
• 1989, 1st place , World Cup in Fredrikstad / Norway, GR, Fl, ahead of Andrij Kalaschnykow, Shohei Nakamori, Japan, Jon Rønningen and Jorge Pacheco, Cuba;
• 1990, 6th place , World Championship in Rome , GR, Fl, behind Alexander Ignatenko, An Han-Bong , Korea, Bratan Zenow , Bulgaria, Marian Sandu , Romania and Shohei Nakamori;
• 1990, 3rd place , World Cup in Gothenburg , GR, Fl, behind Gagik Arakyan, USSR and Abdulkarim Kadahaji, Iran and others. before Jorge Pacheco;
• 1991, 3rd place , Pan American Games in Havana , GR, Fl, behind Raúl Martínez Alemán , Cuba and Ramón Mena, Panama ;
• 1991, 2nd place , World Championships in Warna , GR, Fl, behind Raúl Martínez Alemán and in front of Jon Rønningen , Valentin Rebegea, Romania, Oleg Kutscherenko , USSR and Bratan Zenow;
• 1991, 2nd place , World Cup in Thessaloniki , GR, Fl, behind Samuel Danieljan , USSR and in front of Cape Min-Kyung , Korea and Georgios Patrafidis, Greece ;
• 1992, 4th place , OS in Barcelona , GR, Fl, behind Jon Rønningen , Alfred Ter-Mkrtchyan , GUS and Cape Min-Kyung and in front of Bratan Zenow and Valentin Rebegea;
• 1992, 1st place , World Cup in Besançon , GR, Fl, ahead of Samuel Danielan and Raúl Martínez Alemán;
• 1993, 3rd place , Grand Prix of the FRG in Koblenz , GR, Fl, behind Alfred Ter-Mkrtchyan and Frank Richter, bde. FRG and before Valentin Rebegea and Salal Belquidoum, France ;
• 1993, 1st place , "Stanislaw-Pytalinski" tournament in Warsaw , GR, Fl, in front of Narum Dusenow, Kazakhstan , Rustam Cafin, Russia and Dariusz Piaskowski, Poland ;
• 1993, 8th place , World Cup in Stockholm , GR, Fl, winner: Raúl Martínez Alemán ahead of Armen Nasarjan , Armenia and Alfred Ter-Mkrtchyan;
• 1993, 2nd place , World Cup in Heinola / Finland , GR, Fl, behind Cape Min-Kyung and in front of Teso Katajisto, Finland;
• 1994, 16th place , World Championships in Tampere , GR, Fl, winner: Alfred Ter-Mkrtchyan ahead of Natig Aiwasow , Azerbaijan ;
• 1994, 4th place , World Cup in Kecskemét , Gr, Fl, behind Koji Uchi, Japan, Jozsef Hanzok, Poland and Andrij Kalaschnykow;
• 1995, 2nd place , Pan American Games in Mar del Plata , GR, Fl, behind Raúl Martínez Alemán and in front of Joel Meduna, Venezuela;
• 1995, 4th place , "Stanislaw Pytalinski" tournament in Warsaw, GR, Fl, behind Samuel Danieljan , Oleg Kommendant, Ukraine and Dariusz Jabłoński , Poland and ahead of Ruslam Vartanow, Lithuania;
• 1995, 5th place , World Championship in Prague , GR, Fl, behind Samuel Danielan, Armen Nasarian, Alfred Ter-Mkrtchyan and Khaled Taradschi, Syria and in front of Yuwei Han, China;
• 1995, 2nd place , World Cup, GR, Fl, behind Oleg Nemtschenko, Russia and in front of Raúl Martínez Alemán;
• 1996, 1st place , World Cup in Colorado Springs, GR, Fl, ahead of Boris Ambarzumow , Russia and Lázaro Rivas , Cuba;
• 1998, 3rd place , Pan American Championship in Winnipeg , GR, Fl, behind Lázaro Rivas and David Ochoa, Venezuela;
• 1998, 14th place , World Championships in Gävle , GR, Fl, winner: Sim Kwon-Ho, Korea ahead of Marian Sandu;
• 2000, 4th place , Olympic qualification tournament in Alexandria , GR, Fl, behind Alexander Pawlow, Russia, Sergej Sabokar, Ukraine and Ercan Yıldız , Turkey

USA championships

Shawn Sheldon was a nine-time American flyweight champion in Greco-Roman style.

swell

• various issues of the trade journal "Der Ringer" from 1982 to 2000,
• International Wrestling Database of the University of Leipzig

Web links

• Shawn Sheldon's profile at the Institute of Applied Exercise Science
• Shawn Sheldon in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )