Craig Miller | |
Birth Date: | 10 June 1985 |
Birth Place: | Dunedin, New Zealand |
Weight: | [1] |
Alma Mater: | Kavanagh College |
Craig Miller (born 10 June 1985 in Dunedin) is a New Zealand wrestler.
He attended Kavanagh College, where he first began wrestling in 2002.
He competed at the 2014 Commonwealth Games for New Zealand in freestyle wrestling where he placed 7 out of 16 competitors in the 65kg division.[2]
He then retired from freestyle wrestling to concentrate on Greco-Roman wrestling.[2] He competed in the African & Oceania Olympic qualifying in Algeria in April 2016, losing in a semi final to Australian Vinod Kumar Dahiya.[3]
On 19 July 2016 he was added to the New Zealand team for the 2016 Summer Olympics after Dahiya was suspended for doping violations.[4] He was due to compete in the men's 66 kg division, but received a knee injury during training in Rio de Janeiro and withdrew before the competition started.[5]