{"id":17776,"date":"2012-08-09T15:05:41","date_gmt":"2012-08-09T20:05:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=17776"},"modified":"2012-08-14T08:55:13","modified_gmt":"2012-08-14T13:55:13","slug":"brocks-tonya-verbeek-captures-silver-in-london","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2012\/08\/brocks-tonya-verbeek-captures-silver-in-london\/","title":{"rendered":"Brock&#8217;s Tonya Verbeek captures silver in London"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_17779\" style=\"width: 514px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-17779\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-large wp-image-17779\" title=\"Cheering for Tonya\" src=\"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/verbeek-8-1024x596.jpg\" alt=\"Hundreds gathered at Isaac's Bar and Grill on campus to cheer for Brock alumna Tonya Verbeek as she competed for gold in women's wrestling in London Thursday.\" width=\"504\" height=\"293\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-17779\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hundreds gathered at Isaac&#39;s Bar and Grill on campus to cheer for Brock alumna Tonya Verbeek as she competed for gold in women&#39;s wrestling in London Thursday.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Former Brock wrestler and Badgers assistant coach Tonya Verbeek pinned a silver medal in London today \u2014 her third career Olympic medal \u2014 and the distinction of being Canada&#8217;s most decorated woman wrestler.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Today, Tonya cemented her legacy as one of the greatest female wrestlers in Canadian history,&#8221; said Robert Hilson, Brock University Director of Athletics. &#8220;She provided the Brock University and Niagara community with a day they will remember for the rest of their lives.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Hundreds gathered at Isaac&#8217;s Bar and Grill on campus to watch Verbeek as she took on Japan&#8217;s Saori Yoshida, a three-time Olympic gold medalist and nine-time world champion, in the 55-kilogram category. Decked out in red Brock t-shirts and waving banners proclaiming their support, staff and students had their eyes fixed to TVs as Verbeek, 35, clinched her spot on the podium.<\/p>\n<p>She finished the 2012 Games with a 3-1 record, posting victories over India&#8217;s Geeta Geeta, Tetyana Lazareva of Ukraine and Colombian Jackeline Renteria Castillo.<\/p>\n<p>Verbeek wrestled her way to silver in Athens in 2004 and won bronze in Beijing in 2008. She also has three world medals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Brock wrestler and Badgers assistant coach Tonya Verbeek pinned a silver medal in London today \u2014 her third career Olympic medal \u2014 and the distinction of being Canada&#8217;s most decorated woman wrestler.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":17779,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,1],"tags":[112,435,463,464],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17776"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17776"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17776\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17831,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17776\/revisions\/17831"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}