Terry Brands

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Terry Brands (born April 9, 1968 in Omaha , Nebraska ) is a retired American wrestler , world champion in 1993 and 1995 and bronze medal winner at the 2000 Sydney Olympics in free style bantamweight.

Career

Terry Brands grew up in Sheldon , Iowa , and started there together with his twin brother Thomas in 1980 with the rings . After high school he attended the University of Iowa, where he found excellent training conditions and one of the best wrestling trainers in the world in former Olympic champion Dan Gable . Dan Gable single-mindedly led Terry Brands into the world's top freestyle wrestlers.

In 1990 and 1992 Terry Brands won the NCAA Div. I Collegiate Championships (US university championships) each the title in bantamweight. During these years he achieved 137 victories in 144 fights in the American university wrestling competition, which was an excellent result given the tough competition there. From 1990 to 1992 Terry Brands won the USA championship of the AAU (Amateur Athletes Union) in bantamweight three times in a row.

From 1990 Terry Brands also wrestled for the Hawkeye Wrestling Club in Iowa City . In 1993 he managed to qualify for the first time for the World Championships, which took place in Toronto. He immediately won the world title there with five victories and was particularly delighted that his brother Thomas also became world champion in a weight class higher, in the featherweight division.

Terry Brands failed early at the 1994 World Championships in Istanbul and only finished 11th with a few other wrestlers. But a year later, in 1995, he was again in great shape at the World Championships in Atlanta and won the bantamweight title for the second time by beating Guivi Sissaouri from Canada in the final .

In 1996 Terry Brands finished 2nd at the USA Championships in bantamweight behind Kendall Cross and failed in this wrestler in the US Olympic Trials, so that he could not take part in the Olympic Games in Atlanta.

In 1997 and 1998 Terry Brands was very unlucky because although he qualified for the World Championships in both years, he was unable to participate in both times due to injuries. However, he was by no means resigned and made the jump to the Olympic Games in Sydney in 2000 . There he won against Əbil İbrahimov , from Azerbaijan with 6: 0 on points, beat the Greek Chvitsa Polychronidis with 8: 1 points, then won over David Pogosjan from Georgia with 4: 2 points and lost in the semifinals to the eventual Olympic champion Alireza Dabir from the Iran just 4: 6 points. In the battle for the bronze medal , Terry Brands then defeated the Uzbek Damir Zachartinow with 3: 2 points and thus still got an Olympic medal.

Then Terry Brands ended his international wrestling career. He has been coach at the training center of the US national freestyle team in Colorado Springs since 2006 , after having been a wrestler coach at the University of Tennessee in Chattanooga for 10 years .

International success

(OS = Olympic Games, WM = World Championship, F = free style, Ba = bantam weight, at that time up to 57 kg or 58 kg body weight)

  • 1994, 1st place , World Cup in Edmonton , F, Ba, ahead of Ali Akbar Dodangeh, Iran , Kenji Okuyama, Japan , Spencer Norm, Canada a . Artur Fedorow, Russia ;

swell

  • Trade journal Der Ringer, numbers: 9/1993, pages 4 to 7 and 9/1995, pages 5 to 8
  • Website of the Institute for Applied Training Sciences at the University of Leipzig
  • US Wrestling Association website

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personal data
SURNAME Brands, Terry
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American wrestler
DATE OF BIRTH April 9, 1968
PLACE OF BIRTH Omaha , Nebraska , United States