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Olympian Belisle named Outstanding Wrestler in women’s division at the New York Athletic Club Christmas International
12/19/2004
Gary Abbott/USA Wrestler
In a battle of world-class stars, Olympian Lyndsay Belisle of Canada defeated 2001 World silver medalist Stephanie Murata (Colorado Springs, Colo./Sunkist Kids) in the finals at 51 kg/112.25 lbs. at the New York Athletic Club Christmas International in New York City, Dec. 18. Based upon her achievement, Belisle was named Outstanding Wrestler in the women’s division.
Belisle won the finals match over Murata by winning two straight periods, 3-2 and 1-0, in a very competitive showdown. In the semifinals, Belisle defeated 2004 U.S. Nationals runner-up Debbi Sakai (Mililani, Hawaii/New York AC), 3-1 and 4-0.
The champion at 55 kg/121 lbs was two-time World silver medalist Tina George (Colorado Springs, Colo./New York AC), who scored technical falls in both period to defeat Amy Borgnini (Marquette, Mich./USOEC), 6-0 and 6-0.
U.S. Olympic Team Trials runner-up Alaina Berube (Escanaba, Mich./New York AC) won the title at 63 kg/138.75 lbs., in a wild gold-medal victory over Megan Dolan (unattached/Canada), 8-7 and 4-3.
2002 U.S. Nationals champion Katie Downing (Colorado Springs, Colo./Sunkist Kids) won a three-athlete roundrobin for the title at 67 kg/147.5 lbs. The key victory came over 2004 U.S. Nationals runner-up Heather Martin (Wellington, Ohio/New York AC), 4-1 and 6-0. Downing is ranked No. 1 in the nation at this division.
U.S. women wrestlers won five of the seven weight divisions. Other individual champion from the United States were Katie Kunimoto (Colorado Springs, Colo./Gator WC) at 48 kg/105.5 lbs. and Leigh Jaynes (Burlington, N.J., New York AC) at 59 kg/130 lbs.
Kunimoto scored a 2-0, 1-1 finals victory over Liz Short (Lombard, Ill./USOEC). Jaynes pinned Kim Noakes (Guelph WC/Canada) in 1:39 in the gold-medal match.
The other individual champion was Meaghan Wilton (Guelph WC/Canada), who won a best-of-three series over Laura Conway (MacMurray College). In the first match, Wilton scored a pin in 3:02. In bout two, Wilton scored a 3-0, 6-0 victory.
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