Full name Leopoldina Ross Davyes Sport Wrestling Coach Alberto Pereira Height 1.58 m | Nationality Guinea-Bissau Style Freestyle Name Leopoldina Ross Weight 48 kg | |
Born 20 June 1976 (age 47) ( 1976-06-20 ) Bissau, Guinea-Bissau Club Wrestling Club of Sportschool | ||
Leopoldina Ross Davyes (born June 20, 1976 in Bissau) is an amateur Guinea-Bissauan freestyle wrestler, who competed in the women's flyweight category. Ross captured a gold medal in the same division at the 2000 African Wrestling Championships, and later represented Guinea-Bissau at the 2004 Summer Olympics, where she became the nation's flag bearer in the opening ceremony. During her sporting career, she has been training for the Wrestling Club of Sportschool in Bissau under her personal coach Alberto Pereira.
Ross qualified for her Guinea-Bissau squad in the women's 48 kg class at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens by receiving a continental berth from the African Championships in Cairo, Egypt. She received two straight losses and no classification points in a preliminary pool match against France's Angelique Berthenet and Mongolia's Tsogtbazaryn Enkhjargal, finishing thirteenth overall out of fourteen wrestlers.