Nationality Canadian Height 1.65 m Weight 55 kg | Name Tonya Verbeek Role Olympic athlete Club Ontario | |
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Similar People Jackeline Renteria, Saori Yoshida, Yuliya Ratkevich, Anna Gomis | ||
Athens 2004 olympic wrestling women 55kg final saori yoshida japan vs tonya verbeek canada
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.
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- Athens 2004 olympic wrestling women 55kg final saori yoshida japan vs tonya verbeek canada
- Tonya verbeek carol huynh highlight video
- Sports career
- International results
- Canadian National Championships
- References
Tonya verbeek carol huynh highlight video
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, 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. Verbeek went on to win the silver medal in the Women's 55 kg freestyle category, being defeated by Saori Yoshida in the final.
International results
Canadian National Championships
