Stephanie Murata
Stephanie Murata (born October 16, 1970 ) is a former American wrestler . In 2001 she became vice world champion in the weight class up to 51 kg body weight.
Career
Stephanie Murata is of Japanese descent. She didn't start wrestling until she was 23, having previously played several other sports. She was then based in Lansing, Michigan . After high school, she trained as a physiotherapist. In this area, she continues to work after the end of her active time with the US wrestling association. As a wrestler, she was a member of the Sunkist Kids Phoenix (Arizona) wrestling club for many years . The coaches she worked with the longest were Terry Steiner and Vladimir Isboinikov. The 1.60 meter tall athlete started in various weight classes, mostly in the weight classes up to 51 kg or up to 55 kg, but also in the weight class up to 48 kg in view of a possible participation in the Olympic Games.
In 1996 she started in Sofia for the first time at a world championship for women. In the then existing weight class up to 53 kg she came in 7th place. In the following years she took part in seven world championships up to 2007. She achieved the best result in 2001. She was runner-up that year in Sofia in the weight class up to 51 kg. On the way to this success she defeated Kyle Bremner, Australia, Sofia Pompouridou from Greece and Lyndsey Belisle from Canada. In the final she was defeated by Hitomi Obara Sakamoto, the multiple world and Olympic champion. In 1998 and 1999 she took the thankless 4th place at the World Championships in Poznań and Boden / Sweden. At her last start at a world championship, in Baku in 2007, she came in 5th place in the weight class up to 48 kg, in which she had trained with great sacrifices. She was subject to u. a. against Chiharu Ichō from Japan just on points (0: 2 rounds, 0: 2 points). Since this world champion, she was able to continue in the consolation round, in which she u. a. Maria Stadnik , Azerbaijan, defeated, then narrowly defeated the Chinese Li Xiaomei in the battle for a bronze medal (1: 2 rounds, 1: 3 points).
Stephanie Murate tried twice to qualify for participation in the Olympic Games. In 2004 she failed in the US qualification (Trials), where she only finished 4th in the weight class up to 55 kg. In 2008 she tried to qualify in the United States in the weight class up to 48 kg for the Olympic participation in Beijing. This year she took second place behind Patricia Miranda at the US championship in this weight class , but was injured in the actual trials and therefore could not start. The dream of participating in the Olympics was gone.
Stephanie Murata won the title of a Pan-American Championship in 1997, 2001 and 2002. In 2007, she finished 3rd in the Pan-American Games.
American champion (the results are only known from the year 2000) she was in 2001, 2002, 2005 and 2007.
After finishing her wrestling career in 2008, she started at the NoGi Grappling World Championships in Fort Lauderdale in 2009, where she finished 2nd in the weight class up to 55 kg behind Laurence Fouillet from France. NoGi-Grappling is a "young" martial art and consists of a mixture of different martial arts.
International success
| year | space | competition | Weight class | Results |
| 1996 | 7th | World Cup in Sofia | up to 53 kg | Winner: Anna Gomis , France ahead of Jennifer Ryz , Canada |
| 1997 | 1. | Pan American Championship in San Juan (Puerto Rico) | up to 56 kg | in front of Olga Marina Lugo Guardia, Venezuela and Yameli Valle, Puerto Rico |
| 1997 | 11. | World Cup in Clermont-Ferrand | up to 56 kg | after losing to Mariko Shimizu, Japan and Lin Chin-Miao, Taiwan |
| 1998 | 3. | Pan American Championship in Winnipeg | up to 56 kg | behind Jennifer Ryz and Olga Marina Lugo Guardia |
| 1998 | 4th | World Cup in Poznań | up to 51 kg | after one defeat against Jelena Jegotschina , Russia, victories over Agnieszka Pajak, Poland, Angelique Berthenet-Hidalgo, France, Zhou Xiaoyi, China and Teresa Pietrowski, Canada and another defeat against Jelena Jegotschina |
| 1999 | 4th | World Cup in Boden / Sweden | up to 51 kg | after victories over Marta Wojtanowska, Poland, Annett Kamke, Germany and Natalja Karamtschakowa , Russia and defeats against Erica Sharp , Canada and Gao Yanzhi, China |
| 2000 | 1. | "Dave Schultz" Memorial in Colorado Springs | up to 51 kg | before Casey Baranoski and Patricia Miranda, both USA |
| 2001 | 1. | Pan American Championship in Santa Domingo | up to 51 kg | before Marcia Andrades, Venezuela and Magdalena Arellona, Mexico |
| 2001 | 2. | Sunkist-Kids-International-Open in Phoenix (Arizona) | up to 51 kg | behind Lyndsey Belisle, Canada, in front of Jennifer Wong, USA |
| 2001 | 2. | World Cup in Sofia | up to 51 kg | after victories over Kyle Bremner, Australia, Sofia Pompouridou, Greece and Lyndsey Belisle and a loss to Hitomi Obara Sakamoto, Japan |
| 2002 | 1. | "Dave Schultz" Memorial in Colorado Springs | up to 51 kg | before Jennifer Wong and Marianne Vollmer, both USA |
| 2002 | 2. | Klippan Lady Open | up to 51 kg | behind Ida Hellström , Sweden, in front of Jessica Bechtel, Germany |
| 2002 | 1. | Pan American Championship in Maracaibo | up to 55 kg | before Janet Sovero Nino, Peru and Marcia Yuleisi Andrades Mendoza, Venezuela |
| 2002 | 10. | World Cup in Chalkida / Greece | up to 51 kg | after losing to Chiharu Icho , Japan and defeating Marta Wojtanowska |
| 2003 | 3. | "Dave Schultz" Memorial in Colorado Springs | up to 55 kg | behind Jennifer Ryz and Tina George, USA |
| 2004 | 6th | "Dave Schultz" Memorial in Colorado Springs | up to 55 kg | Winner: Tina George ahead of Jennifer Ryz |
| 2004 | 2. | World Cup in Tokyo | up to 51 kg | behind Hitomi Obara Sakamoto, in front of Erica Sharp and Tan Dongmei, China |
| 2004 | 1. | Sunkist-Kids-International-Open in Tempe (Arizona) | up to 51 kg | before Erica Sharp and Debbie Sakai, both USA |
| 2005 | 3. | "Dave Schultz" Memorial in Colorado Springs | up to 51 kg | behind Lyndsey Belisle and Erica Sharp |
| 2004 | 2. | New York Athletic Club Open | up to 51 kg | behind Lyndsey Belisle, in front of Debbie Sakai |
| 2005 | 5. | World Cup in Clermont-Ferrand | up to 51 kg | Winner: Chiharu Icho ahead of Natalja Smirnowa , Russia |
| 2005 | 7th | World Cup in Budapest | up to 51 kg | after victories over Emese Szabo, Hungary and Nursat Schailobowa, Kyrgyzstan and a loss to Erica Sharp |
| 2006 | 2. | "Ivan Yarigin" Memorial in Krasnoyarsk | up to 48 kg | behind Lilija Kaskarakowa , Russia, in front of Otgonmargal Njamsuren, Mongolia and Lorissa Oorschak , Russia |
| 2006 | 1. | Tourcoing Grand Prix | up to 48 kg | in front of Carol Huynh and Marina Markewitsch, Belarus |
| 2006 | 1. | "Dave Schultz" Memorial in Colorado Springs | up to 48 kg | before Angela Mott, Canada and Mary Kelly, USA |
| 2006 | 3. | Klippan Lady Open | up to 48 kg | behind Lilija Kaskarakowa and Clarissa Chun , USA, together with Sigrun Dobner , Germany |
| 2006 | 3. | World Cup in Nagoya | up to 48 kg | behind Chiharu Icho and Carol Huynh , Canada, together with Inga Karamtschakowa , Russia |
| 2007 | 1. | "Dave Schultz" Memorial in Colorado Springs | up to 48 kg | before Carol Huynh and Sofia Mattsson , Sweden |
| 2007 | 2. | Guelph Open | up to 51 kg | behind Patricia Miranda, in front of Belinda Chow and Vanessa Brown, both Canada |
| 2007 | 3. | Pan American Games | up to 48 kg | behind Carol Huynh and Ingrid Mechano Cuellar, El Salvador |
| 2007 | 5. | World Cup in Baku | up to 48 kg | after a victory over Natalja Budu, Moldova, a defeat against Chiharu Icho, victories over Isabella Sambou , Senegal, Jildiz Eschimowa, Kazakhstan and Maria Stadnik, Azerbaijan and a defeat against Li Xiaomei, China |
| 2008 | 3. | "Dave Schultz" Memorial in Colorado Springs | up to 48 kg | behind Sara Fulp-Allen and Clarissa Chun, both USA |
| 2009 | 2. | NoGi Grappling Championships in Fort Lauderdale | up to 55 kg | behind Laurence Fouillet, France, ahead of Bahar Shahidi and Danielle Hobeike, both USA |
National competitions
(only since 2000)
| year | space | competition | Weight class | Results |
| 2001 | 1. | USA championship | up to 51 kg | before Jennifer Wong and Patricia Miranda |
| 2002 | 1. | USA championship | up to 55 kg | before Melissa Sherwood and Marcie van Dusen |
| 2003 | 3. | USA championship | up to 55 kg | behind Tela O'Donnell and Tina George |
| 2004 | 5. | USA championship | up to 55 kg | behind Tina George, Tela O'Donnell, Jennifer Wong and Marcie van Dusen |
| 2004 | 4th | Olympic trials | up to 55 kg | behind Tela O'Donnell, Tina George and Jennifer Wong |
| 2005 | 1. | USA championship | up to 51 kg | before Malinda Ripley |
| 2005 | 1. | World Championship trials | up to 51 kg | before Mary Kelly |
| 2006 | 2. | USA championship | up to 48 kg | behind Clarissa Chun, in front of Mary Kelly and Sara Fulp-Allen |
| 2007 | 1. | USA championship | up to 48 kg | before Mary Kelly, Clarissa Chun and Sara Fulp-Allen |
| 2007 | 1. | World Championship trials | up to 48 kg | before Mary Kelly, Sara Fulp-Allen and Clarissa Chun |
| 2008 | 2. | USA championship | up to 48 kg | behind Patricia Miranda, in front of Sara Fulp-Allen and Clarissa Chun |
| 2008 | 2. | World Championship trials | up to 51 kg | behind Helen Maroulis , in front of Whitney Conder |
Explanations
- all competitions in free style (exception: 2009, NoGi-Grappling-WM)
- WM = World Championship
- Trials = elimination competition
swell
- Trade journal Der Ringer
- Foeldeak Wrestling Database website
- US and Canadian Wrestling Federation websites
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Murata, Stephanie |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American wrestler |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 16, 1970 |