2014 CADET WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS
Gold medalist Mason Manville
Gold medalist Mark Hall
Gold medalist Spencer Lee 4 Americans strike gold
By Richard Immel SNINA, Slovakia – Americans Mark
Hall, Spencer Lee, Mason Manville and Teshya Alo captured gold medals at the FILA Cadet World Championships in late July.
Hall won five matches at 76 kg/167.5
lbs. to lead the U.S. charge. In the gold- medal bout, Hall would face Asian Championships runner-up Sumiyabazar Zandanbud of Mongolia. Hall struck first, connecting on a shrug attempt to take the early 2-0 lead heading into the second period. Hall added one more takedown in the second off a Zandanbud shot attempt, before giving up a pushout, to earn the 4-1 victory. Lee, a Pennsylvania product, put on a dominant display at 50 kg/110 lbs., pick- ing up three technical falls and a fall while not surrendering a single point en route to the gold medal. Utilizing a relentless pace, Lee defeat-
ed Afgan Khashalov of Azerbaijan 11-0 in the gold-medal match. He opened the scoring with a quick takedown in the first 20 seconds to set the tone and take a 2-0 lead. Lee followed that up with four more takedowns and a pushout point to earn the technical fall and the gold. Manville also put on quite the show for
the fans in Slovakia, winning his first three bouts by technical fall before stop- ping Radik Valiev of Russia 5-0 in the finals. Manville scored the first point in the gold-medal bout after Valiev was put
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Teshya Alo went 5-0 at the Cadet World Championships in women’s freestyle.
on the 30-second shot clock and did not score. Manville put the match out of reach with two second-period takedowns at 69 kg/152 lbs. Pennsylvania big man Jordan Wood
earned a silver medal for the U.S. in freestyle. The U.S. finished in third place in the
team standings in freestyle with 50 points. Russia won the competition with 78 points, followed by Iran in second place with 68 points. Alo won an impressive five matches on
the day at 56 kg/123 lbs. during her run to gold, including two close one-point vic-
tories. She defeated Tatjana Rizhko of Ukraine 9-8 in the quarterfinals, followed by a 4-3 semifinal victory over Kumi Irie of Japan. Alo opened up her offense against Russian opponent Ksenia Nezgovorova in the gold-medal bout, scoring a take- down in the first 20 seconds of the match. Alo held a narrow 3-2 lead entering the second period before opening it up to win by a 9-2 final score. Alo earned a Cadet World Championships gold medal after placing third at the 2013 Cadet Worlds in women’s freestyle.
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