|
}} Tonya Lynn Verbeek (born 14 August 1977) is a Canadian freestyle wrestler. Verbeek was the first woman to win a wrestling medal for Canada when she took silver in 2004, she added to that with a bronze at the 2008 Summer Olympics and a second silver at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London. She has also won two bronze and a silver at the world championships and has a bronze and silver from the Pan American Games and Commonwealth Games respectively. ==Sports career== She was born in Grimsby, Ontario. She took up wrestling in grade eleven and was undefeated throughout high school in Beamsville, Ontario. She trains at Brock University in St. Catharines, Ontario, and is coached by Marty Calder. She won a silver medal at the 2004 Summer Olympics in freestyle women's wrestling in the 55 kg category. At the 2008 Summer Olympics, she won Canada's third medal overall, the third Canadian medal ever in women's wrestling,〔CBC Television, ''Olympic Late Night'', 16 August 2008〕 by winning a bronze.〔 〕 Verbeek won a silver medal at the 2011 world championships. She was undefeated in 2012 when she was named to the Canadian team for the 2012 Summer Olympics. On 9 August 2012,Verbeek defeated Geeta Phogat of India in her first round match.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Olympic wrestling: Geeta Phogat loses opening fight )〕 Verbeek went on to win the silver medal in the Women's 55 kg freestyle category, being defeated by Saori Yoshida in the final. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Tonya Verbeek」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
|