Shelby Wilson
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Full name | Shelby Autrie Wilson | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | July 14, 1937 (1937-07-14) (age 86) Ponca City, Oklahoma, U.S. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Shelby Autrie Wilson (born July 14, 1937) is an American wrestler and Olympic champion.[1]
Career
A native of Ponca City, Oklahoma,[2] Wilson was a two-time Oklahoma state tournament runner-up while in high school, and was a two-time NCAA runner-up in college at Oklahoma State. At the 1960 U.S. Olympic Trials, he finished in third place. During the Olympic Training Camp he successfully challenged the trials' second and first-place finishers to gain the starting position. He won Olympic Gold in Rome, in the freestyle lightweight (67 kg) division. His Olympic gold medal was the first major tournament that Wilson had won. He later became a high school wrestling coach at Owen Valley Community High School.[3]
In 1982, Wilson was inducted into the National Wrestling Hall of Fame as a Distinguished Member.[4]
References
- ^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Shelby Wilson". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on April 18, 2020. Retrieved September 13, 2015.
- ^ "Beyond the Scoreboard", The Herald-Times, 2010-03-21. Accessed 2011-04-22.
- ^ "1960 Summer Olympics – Rome, Italy – Wrestling" – databaseOlympics.com (Retrieved on April 29, 2008)
- ^ Shelby Wilson. National Wrestling Hall of Fame. Retrieved September 18, 2022.
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- 1904 Otto Roehm (USA)
- 1908 George de Relwyskow (GBR)
- 1920 Kalle Anttila (FIN)
- 1924 Russell Vis (USA)
- 1928 Osvald Käpp (EST)
- 1932 Charles Pacôme (FRA)
- 1936 Károly Kárpáti (HUN)
- 1948 Celal Atik (TUR)
- 1952 Olle Anderberg (SWE)
- 1956 Emam-Ali Habibi (IRN)
- 1960 Shelby Wilson (USA)
- 1964 Enyu Valchev (BUL)
- 1968 Abdollah Movahed (IRN)
- 1972 Dan Gable (USA)
- 1976 Pavel Pinigin (URS)
- 1980 Saypulla Absaidov (URS)
- 1984 You In-tak (KOR)
- 1988 Arsen Fadzaev (URS)
- 1992 Arsen Fadzaev (EUN)
- 1996 Vadim Bogiev (RUS)
- 2000 Daniel Igali (CAN)
- 2004 Elbrus Tedeyev (UKR)
- 2008 Ramazan Şahin (TUR)
- 2012 Tatsuhiro Yonemitsu (JPN)
- 2016 Soslan Ramonov (RUS)
- 2020 Takuto Otoguro (JPN)
- 1904: 65.77 kg
- 1908: 66.5 kg
- 1920–1936: 67.5 kg
- 1948–1960: 67 kg
- 1964–1968: 70 kg
- 1972–1996: 68 kg
- 2000: 69 kg
- 2004–2012: 66 kg
- 2016–present: 65 kg
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