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| Full name | Nicolaas Jacobs | ||||||||||||||
| Nationality |  Namibia | ||||||||||||||
| Born | 26 January 1981 Pretoria, South Africa | ||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in) | ||||||||||||||
| Weight | 96 kg (212 lb) | ||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Wrestling | ||||||||||||||
| Style | Freestyle | ||||||||||||||
| Club | University of Calgary (CAN) | ||||||||||||||
| Coach | Leigh Vierling (CAN) | ||||||||||||||
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Nicolaas "Nico" Jacobs (born January 26, 1981, in Pretoria, South Africa) is a retired amateur Namibian freestyle wrestler, who competed in the men's heavyweight category. [1] Jacobs had claimed a bronze medal in the 96-kg division at the 2003 All-Africa Games in Abuja, Nigeria, and later became the first Namibian wrestler in history to compete at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens. A graduate at the University of Calgary in Canada, Jacobs trained for the university's wrestling team under his head coach Leigh Vierling. [2]
Jacobs qualified for the Namibian squad, as the nation's first and lone wrestler, in the men's heavyweight class (96 kg) at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, with a remarkable milestone. Earlier in the process, he placed sixth in the 97-kg division at the 2003 World Wrestling Championships in New York City, New York, United States, which automatically secured him a spot for his Olympic debut. [3] [4] He lost two straight matches each to Kazakhstan's Islam Bairamukov with a 1–7 decision, and Azerbaijan's Rustam Aghayev, who pinned him into the mat by both an eleven-point advantage and a technical fall, in the prelim pool, finishing eighteenth overall in the final rankings. [5]
