FILA CADET WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS Retherford, Doi earn gold
The United States crowns a pair of champions in Baku, Azerbaijan
By Gary Abbott BAKU, Azerbaijan – Zain Retherford and Marina Doi each captured gold medals for the U.S. at August’s FILA Cadet World Championships. This was the second straight year the FILA Cadet Worlds have been held in freestyle, women’s freestyle and Greco- Roman wrestling. Here are the recaps of the two gold- medal winning performances for the United States:
Freestyle
Retherford, of Benton, Pa., won a gold medal at 63 kg/138.75 lbs. in men’s freestyle on Aug. 22.
Retherford won four matches on the way to his title, including a victory over Supian Burmagomedov of Russia, 0-1, 4- 3, 2-1 in the gold-medal finals. "This means a lot - it is a stepping stone for international events in the future," Retherford said. "Winning this was my goal coming in here, and to reach your goal feels awesome." He opened with a second period pin over 2012 Asian Cadet silver medalist Hossein Rouzbehmaleh of Iran, dropping the first period but coming back with the fall. In the quarterfinals, he stopped Sapar Kubandykov of Kyrgyzstan, 3-0, 1- 6, 2-0.
His semifinal win came over 2011 Cadet World bronze medalist Ilyas Zhumay of Kazakhstan, 1-0, 6-0. "The main key was to keep my style of wrestling going," Retherford said. "The foreign competitors like to slow the pace of things down and score in short bursts. Americans are much more offensive, so keeping my motor running played a major part through the whole tournament." Retherford won titles at the FILA Cadet Nationals in Akron and the Junior Nationals in Fargo this year. Retherford’s gold medal was the only U.S. men’s freestyle medal of the tourna-
38 USA Wrestler FILA Cadet World champs Zain Retherford and Marina Doi. John Sachs photos.
“This means a lot - it is a stepping stone for international events in the future... to reach your goal feels awesome.”
- Zain Retherford FILA Cadet World champ ment. Women’s freestyle
Doi, of Kingsburg, Calif., captured a gold medal at 38 kg/83.75 lbs. and Kayla Miracle of Bloomington, Ind. added a sil- ver medal at 56 kg/123.25 lbs. on Aug. 23.
Doi won three matches on the way to her gold medal, including a 3-0, 2-0 victo- ry in the championship finals over 2011 Cadet World bronze medalist Svetlana Ankicheva of Kazakhstan.
She opened with a 4-0, 2-1 win over
2012 European Cadet bronze medalist Maria Marinska of Bulgaria, then stopped 2011 Cadet World bronze medalist Sahilia Alakbarova of Azerbaijan by fall in the semifinals.
It was her second career FILA Cadet
World medal, after winning a silver medal at the 2011 FILA Cadet World Championships at 40 kg/88 lbs. Miracle had a 3-1 record during her competition, capturing her first three bouts to earn a spot in the finals. She opened by pinning Naveen Naveen of India, then stopped 2011 Cadet World bronze medalist Ekaterina Myagkova of Russia, 4-1, 4-0. In the semifinals, Miracle defeated Alyona Kolesnik of Azerbaijan, 1-0, 3-0. In the gold-medal finals, Miracle was defeated by Ai Kuradate of Japan, 3-5, 0- 6.
Miracle was competing in her second
FILA Cadet World Championships, after placing eighth last year at 49 kg/108 lbs. She was a FILA Cadet and a Junior National champion this year leading up to the World Championships.
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