Sandra Bacher

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1. https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/33112 · Olympedia athlete page for Sandy Bacher: full name Sandra Atsuko Bacher, born 28 May 1968 in Long Island, New York; affiliation San Jose State Spartans, San Jose; started college at the University of Washington before transferring to San Jose State, where she won the National Collegiate Judo Association Championship four straight years, 1990-93; a 14-time U.S. champion competing from 1992 to 2004; three Olympic Games in judo, half-heavyweight in 1992 (tied ninth) and 1996 (tied 19th) and middleweight in 2000 (tied ninth); also competed in freestyle wrestling, World champion in 1999, silver medalist in 1998 and bronze medalist in 1997; inducted into the San Jose State University Sports Hall of Fame in 2010; listed among Olympians who won a Pan American Games medal, bronze in judo middleweight 70 kg at 1999 Winnipeg
2. https://sjsuspartans.com/news/2018/08/03/sandra-bacher-2010-san-jose-state-sports-hall-of-fame-inductee · San Jose State athletics, on Bacher's 2010 induction into the San Jose State Sports Hall of Fame: a judo star who became one of America's first outstanding women's amateur wrestlers, one of seven 2010 inductees; judo 1990-93, a transfer from the University of Washington, four-time National Collegiate Judo Association champion 1990 through 1993; the Long Island, New York native was a 14-time national champion in judo from 1992 through 2004; represented the United States in judo at the 1992, 1996 and 2000 Olympics; at the World Wrestling Championships she was a bronze medalist in 1997, a silver medalist in 1998 and the 1999 World Champion at 68 kg; induction ceremonies Sept. 17, 2010
3. https://www.themat.com/news/2000/september/21/wrestling-star-sandy-bacher-ba-331 · USA Wrestling, Sept. 20, 2000, by Gary Abbott, on Bacher's third Olympic judo appearance in Sydney: she was the 1999 Women's World Wrestling champion and had been competing and winning in both sports at the same time for six years; she was one of 23 judo players in the 70 kg division; she was the 2000 U.S. Nationals wrestling champion at 68 kg and did not challenge for the World Team spot because of her judo duties, and Kristie Marano dropped to the weight class and won World gold; her first bout was an ippon win over Cath Arlove of Australia, whom she had also beaten when she won a bronze medal at the 1998 World Wrestling Championships; she lost the quarterfinal to Sibelis Veranes of Cuba on a yuko and her first repechage bout to Yvonne Vansart of Germany, finishing 1-2; Veranes won the Olympic gold that evening; she has a World gold, a World silver and a World bronze in wrestling; judo coach Eddie Liddie praised her performance. NOTE: this page's 1998 bronze agrees with USA Wrestling's own women's World medal history, which has the silver in 1997 and the bronze in 1998. Olympedia and San Jose State reverse the two years.
4. https://www.win-magazine.com/2023/09/14/26162/ · WIN Magazine's all-time list of USA women's freestyle World gold medalists, updated Sept. 14, 2023: Sandra Bacher, 68 kg 1999, one World title; Tricia Saunders four titles including 46 kg in 1999; Kristie Marano 68 kg 2000 and 67 kg 2003; the article states Team USA won its only World team title in 1999, that U.S. women first competed at the Worlds in 1989, and that women's wrestling was not in the Olympic Games until 2004
5. https://tsutigers.com/news/2025/10/9/football-family-legacy-and-the-drive-behind-epoki-fakaosi.aspx · Tennessee State athletics feature, Oct. 9, 2025: Sandra Bacher is a 14-time U.S. national champion in judo, a three-time Olympian and a former world champion wrestler, with Olympic appearances in 1992, 1996 and 2000, a bronze medal at the 1999 Pan American Games and gold at the 1999 World Wrestling Championships. The page is a profile of a family member, so nothing in it about her relatives is carried into this profile.
6. https://www.themat.com/news/2019/november/20/womens-wednesday-medal-history · USA Wrestling's women's World Championships medal history, year by year: '1997 - Shannon Williams (silver, 51 kg), Sandra Bacher (silver, 68 kg), Kristie Davis (silver, 75 kg)'; '1998 - Tricia Saunders (gold, 46 kg), Kristie Davis (silver, 75 kg), Sandra Bacher (bronze, 68 kg)'; '1999 - Tricia Saunders (gold, 46 kg), Sandra Bacher (gold, 68 kg), Kristie Davis (silver, 75 kg)'. The gold-medalist list also carries '1999 - Tricia Saunders (46 kg), Sandra Bacher (68 kg)', and Bacher appears with three World medals in the all-time count.
7. https://www.themat.com/news/2015/march/04/womens-feature-1999-world-team-champions · USA Wrestling, Mar. 3, 2015, by Gary Abbott, on the 1999 U.S. women's World Team, the first U.S. team to win the World Team title: the 1999 World Championships were in Boden, Sweden; Sandra Bacher, 'an Olympic judo athlete who became a star in wrestling, had won World silver and bronze medals the previous two years and was entered at 68 kg/149.75 lbs'; she lost a semifinal to 1999 Junior World champion Heidi Skemark of Sweden 3-2 in overtime, U.S. coaches protested successfully, the match was rewrestled and Bacher won 4-0; in the final she beat 1998 Junior World champion Anita Schatzle of Germany 8-1; 'It became the first time ever that the United States had two champions at the same World Championships, and Bacher also was only the second American to win a Women's World gold'; Tricia Saunders won 46 kg over Xiue Zhong of China 4-2 in overtime for her fourth World title; the U.S. beat Japan 47 points to 46 for its first World team title; the U.S. team had placed third in 1996 Sofia, 1997 Clermont Ferrand and 1998 Poznan.