Kyle Snyder (wrestler)
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Snyder after winning the USA's 2013 Junior National Championships in Las Vegas
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November 20, 1995 Woodbine, Maryland, United States |
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| High school | Our Lady of Good Counsel High School | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| State championships | 3 (Maryland) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| College | Ohio State University | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Prep National Championships | 3 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| NCAA championships | 1 (Division I) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Olympic team | United States of America | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Status | Team USA / Ohio State Buckeyes | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Kyle Frederick Snyder (born November 20, 1995) is an American amateur wrestler. He is both the youngest Olympic gold medalist as well as the youngest World Champion in American wrestling history. Snyder is also the youngest wrestler ever to win the World, NCAA, and Olympic championships in the same year — a sweep that hadn't been accomplished in a generation when he completed this triple crown of American wrestling at the 2016 Rio Olympics.
In his first three years of high school, Snyder amassed a 179–0 record, won three Prep National Championships, and only conceded a single takedown. Named the national high school wrestler of the year by both Intermat and ASICS, Snyder was also ranked as the #1 pound-for-pound high school wrestler in America by Flowrestling after his junior season.
He then spent his senior year of high school training at the United States Olympic Training Center, wrestling internationally and winning America's first Junior World Championship in over 20 years while becoming the youngest two-time Junior World medalist in American history.
To begin his collegiate wrestling career, Snyder accepted a full-ride from the Ohio State Buckeyes, helping them to an NCAA team championship as a true freshman when he lost to a fifth-year senior in the national finals. A few weeks later he rebounded from this heartbreaking loss with remarkable resilience: Snyder defeated the returning Olympic gold medalist for a chance to represent the United States of America on its 2015 World Team, and then competing on September 11 while on American soil, became the youngest World Champion in American wrestling history by dethroning the reigning World Champion. Snyder continued his extraordinary run by going back to the Buckeyes and rallying for an overtime victory over "a titan of the sport," the returning two-time national chamption who outweighed him by more than 30 pounds and was on a 88-match win streak to win an individual NCAA Championship as a true sophomore. A few months later Snyder would win his historic gold at the 2016 Rio Olympics — capping-off his unprecedented streak of winning wrestling's three most prestigious championships in succession before his 21st birthday, defeating the man holding each title along the way.
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