Leopoldina Ross | |
Fullname: | Leopoldina Ross Davyes |
Nationality: | Guinea-Bissauan |
Birth Date: | 20 June 1976 |
Birth Place: | Bissau, Guinea-Bissau |
Weight: | 480NaN0 |
Style: | Freestyle |
Club: | Wrestling Club of Sportschool |
Coach: | Alberto Pereira |
Show Medals: | yes |
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]