Leopoldina Ross

Leopoldina Ross
Personal information
Full name	Leopoldina Ross Davyes
Nationality	Guinea-Bissauan
Born	20 June 1976; Bissau, Guinea-Bissau
Height	1.58 m (5 ft 2 in)
Weight	48 kg (106 lb)
Sport
Sport	Wrestling
Style	Freestyle
Club	Wrestling Club of Sportschool
Coach	Alberto Pereira
Representing Guinea-Bissau
Women's Freestyle wrestling
African Championships

Leopoldina Ross Davyes (born 20 June 1976 in Bissau) is an amateur Guinea-Bissauan freestyle wrestler, who competed in the women's flyweight category.[1] 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.[2] 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.[3] She received two straight losses and no classification points in a preliminary pool match against France's Angélique Berthenet and Mongolia's Tsogtbazaryn Enkhjargal, finishing thirteenth overall out of fourteen wrestlers.[4]

References

Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Leopoldina Ross". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 23 September 2013.
"2004 Athens: Flag Bearers for the Opening Ceremony". Olympics. 13 August 2004. Retrieved 11 September 2013.
"African Championships: 2003-05-18 Cairo (EGY) – Women's Freestyle 48kg". International Wrestling Database. Retrieved 23 September 2013.
"Women's Freestyle 48kg". Athens 2004. BBC Sport. 15 August 2004. Retrieved 23 September 2013.

External links

Profile – International Wrestling Database

Olympic Games
Preceded by Talata Embalo	Flagbearer for Guinea-Bissau Athens 2004	Succeeded by Augusto Midana

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[1] Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Leopoldina Ross". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 23 September 2013.

[2] "2004 Athens: Flag Bearers for the Opening Ceremony". Olympics. 13 August 2004. Retrieved 11 September 2013.

[3] "African Championships: 2003-05-18 Cairo (EGY) – Women's Freestyle 48kg". International Wrestling Database. Retrieved 23 September 2013.

[4] "Women's Freestyle 48kg". Athens 2004. BBC Sport. 15 August 2004. Retrieved 23 September 2013.