Dave Schultz (amateur wrestler)
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June 6, 1959 Palo Alto, California, U.S. |
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| Died | January 26, 1996 (aged 36) Newtown Square, Pennsylvania, U.S. |
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| High school | Palo Alto High School | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| State championships | 1 (California) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Oklahoma State University University of Oklahoma |
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| NCAA championships | 1 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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David Leslie "Dave" Schultz (June 6, 1959 – January 26, 1996) was an American Olympic and world champion freestyle wrestler, a seven-time World and Olympic medalist. He coached individuals and teams at the college level and also privately. He was shot and killed by John Eleuthère du Pont, a millionaire philanthropist who sponsored the private Foxcatcher wrestling team at an amateur sports center known as Foxcatcher Farm he set up on his estate in Pennsylvania.
Dave and his brother Mark Schultz, also a wrestler, were noted for both winning gold at the same Olympics (1984). The Schultzes were the only brothers, other than Buvaisar and Adam Saitiev, and Anatoli and Sergei Beloglazov, to win both World and Olympic championships. The Schultz brothers won more NCAA, U.S. Open, World, and Olympic titles than any American brother combination in history.
David Leslie Schultz was born in Palo Alto, California, to Dorothy Jean St. Germain (née Rich) and Phillip Gary Schultz. He was the brother of Mark Schultz, and two half-siblings – Michael and Seana. Schultz was of half Ukrainian Jewish and half British descent. His paternal grandparents were Estelle (Bernstein), a prominent paper company executive, and Maxwell L. Schultz, a business consultant. He said in a video that he was a Christian by faith.
As a young child, Dave was chubby (nicknamed "Pudge"), and was often bullied at school by classmates for his weight and appearance. He also suffered from dyslexia, which many of his teachers mistook for mental disabilities.
Schultz began wrestling in junior high school at David Starr Jordan Middle School in Palo Alto. In 1977 as a senior at Palo Alto High School, he became state champion. That year he also won both his first national and international wrestling titles. As a high school senior he pinned 2-time NCAA champion and NCAA "Outstanding Wrestler" Chuck Yagla at the Great Plains Championships. His brother Mark started competing in sports in gymnastics, winning the Northern California All-Around Gymnastics Championships in his age group. In his junior year he switched to wrestling, and in his senior year won state.
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