Leopoldina Ross, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Leopoldina Ross

Olympic wrestler

Date of Birth: 20-Jun-1976

Place of Birth: Bissau, Bissau Autonomous Sector, Guinea-Bissau

Profession: amateur wrestler

Nationality: Guinea-Bissau

Zodiac Sign: Gemini

Leopoldina Ross Davyes (born June 20, 1976 in Bissau) is an amateur Guinea-Bissauan freestyle wrestler, who competed in the women's flyweight category.
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.
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.
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.