FLASH: Six Americans win gold at Junior Austrian Open
Share:
by Taylor Miller, USA Wrestling
Two wrestlers for the Northern Michigan Olympic Training Site claimed top honors, including Randon Miranda at 55 kg/121 lbs. and Logan Kass at 66 kg/145 lbs.
Four other OTS athletes produced medal-winning performances, including a silver from Drew Fenton at 120 kg/264 lbs. and bronzes from Jordan Auen and Alston Nutter at 66kg and Jesse Porter at 74 kg/163 lbs.
"This competition gave the athletes multiple matches on foreign soil that will help them reach their goals of winning World medals at the Junior World Championships,” NMU-OTS head coach Rob Hermann said.
Colorado Springs Olympic Training Center athletes Kamal Bey (74 kg), 2016 Junior World bronze medalist G’Angelo Hancock (96 kg/211 lbs.) and Nick Boykin (120 kg) will all return to the U.S. with gold medals.
This is the second-consecutive international title for both Bey and Hancock, who each won their respective Senior weight classes at the Dave Schultz Memorial International in Colorado in early February.
Junior freestyle national champion Cohlton Schultz fell to teammate Hancock in the 96 kg finals to end with a silver medal.
A freshman for Utah Valley University and a 2016 Junior World bronze medalist, Taylor LaMont wraps up the championship performances for the U.S., taking gold at 60 kg/132 lbs.
The final medal for the Red, White and Blue came from Wyatt Koelling, who finished with a bronze at 84 kg/185 lbs.
The athletes will spend the next five days in Austria at a training camp with several other countries in attendance.
2017 JUNIOR AUSTRIA GRECO-ROMAN OPEN
March 4, 2017 in Gotzis, Austria
U.S. results
55 kg
Gold - Randon Miranda, Palmdale, Calif.
60 kg
Gold – Taylor LaMont, Mapleton, Utah.
Bronze – Jordan Auen, Marquette, Mich.
66 kg
Gold – Logan Kass, Webster, Minn.
Bronze – Alston Nutter, Fennimore, Wisc.
DNP – Zach Krapf, Marquette, Mich.
DNP – Aaron Kliamovich, Viera, Fla.
DNP – Britton Holmes, Peyton, Colo.
74 kg
Gold – Kamal Bey, Colorado Springs, Colo. (Sunkist Kids)
Bronze – Jesse Porter, Ballston Lake, N.Y. (New York AC)
DNP – Josh Anderson, Omaha, Neb.
DNP – Giusseppe Rios, Marquette, Mich.
DNP – Michael Donato, Brooklyn, N.Y.
DNP – Andrew Berreyesa, Reno, Nev. (Team Nevada Facility WC)
DNP – Corey Fitzgerald, Uniontown, Ohio
84 kg
Bronze – Wyatt Koelling, Columbia, Mo. (Missouri Wrestling Foundation)
DNP – Dru Worker, Tinley Park, Ill.
DNP – George Sikes, Fort Pierce, Fla.
DNP – Tommy Brackett, Eads, Tenn. (West Tennessee WC)
96 kg
Gold – G’Angelo Hancock, Colorado Springs, Colo. (Sunkist Kids)
Silver – Cohlton Schultz, Parker, Colo. (Mile High WC)
DNP – Ron Dombkowski, Ft. Belvoir, Va. (Mt. Vernon Mat Monsters)
120 kg
Gold – Nick Boykin, Murfreesboro, Tenn.
Silver – Drew Fenton, Menomie, Wisc.
