Kyle Snyder (wrestler)

Kyle Frederick Snyder (born November 20, 1995) is an American freestyle wrestler and graduated folkstyle wrestler who competes at 97 kilograms. He holds the distinctions of being the youngest Olympic Gold medalist and the youngest World Champion in American wrestling history.

Kyle Snyder
Kyle Snyder for the President’s Council on Sports, Fitness & Nutrition
Full nameKyle Frederick Snyder
Weight97 kg (214 lb)
Born (1995-11-20) November 20, 1995
Woodbine, Maryland, U.S.
High schoolOur Lady of Good Counsel (MD)
State championships3 (Maryland)
CollegeOhio State University
Prep National Championships3
NCAA championshipsDivision I
3 individual
1 team
Olympic teamUnited States of America
StatusTeam USA / Nittany Lion Wrestling Club
Medal record
Event 1st 2nd 3rd
Olympic Games 1 1 0
World Championship 3 2 2
Pan American Championships 7 0 0
Pan American Games 3 0 0
World Cup 2 1 0
Other 14 2 4
Total 30 6 6
Men's freestyle wrestling
Representing the  United States
Olympic Games
2016 Rio de Janeiro97 kg
2020 Tokyo97 kg
World Championships
2015 Las Vegas97 kg
2017 Paris97 kg
2022 Belgrade97 kg
2018 Budapest97 kg
2021 Oslo97 kg
2019 Nur-Sultan97 kg
2023 Belgrade97 kg
Pan American Championships
2017 Salvador97 kg
2019 Buenos Aires97 kg
2020 Ottawa97 kg
2021 Guatemala City97 kg
2022 Acapulco97 kg
2023 Buenos Aires97 kg
2024 Acapulco97 kg
Pan American Games
2015 Toronto97 kg
2019 Lima97 kg
2023 Santiago97 kg
World Cup
2018 Iowa CityTeam
2022 CoralvilleTeam
2017 KermandshahTeam
Yasar Dogu Tournament
2019 Istanbul97 kg
2018 Istanbul97 kg
Dan Kolov & Nikola Petrov Tournament
2019 Russe97 kg
2023 Sofia97 kg
Golden Grand Prix Ivan Yarygin
2017 Krasnoyarsk97 kg
2018 Krasnoyarsk97 kg
2022 Krasnoyarsk97 kg
2016 Krasnoyarsk97 kg
Grand Prix
2017 Madrid97 kg
2017 Minsk97 kg
2019 Vladikavkaz97 kg
2021 Nice97 kg
2022 Tunis97 kg
2023 Zagreb97 kg
2023 Budapest97 kg
2024 Zagreb97 kg
2016 Dortmund97 kg
2020 Rome97 kg
Junior World Championships
2013 Sofia96 kg
2014 Zagreb96 kg
Collegiate Wrestling
Representing the Ohio State Buckeyes
NCAA Division I Wrestling Championships
2016 New York285 lb
2017 St. Louis285 lb
2018 Cleveland285 lb
2015 St. Louis197 lb
Big Ten Championships
2016 Iowa City285 lb
2017 Bloomington285 lb
2018 East Lansing285 lb
2015 Columbus197 lb

Snyder is also the youngest wrestler ever to win the World, NCAA, and Olympic championships in the same year — a triple crown of American wrestling that had not been accomplished in a generation until he completed his sweep at the 2016 Rio Olympics.

Snyder, nicknamed "Snyderman", became the first Olympic Gold Medalist to return to college and win an NCAA title, clinching his second consecutive NCAA heavyweight title in 2017 despite tearing cartilage in his chest in the quarter-finals and being out-weighed by upwards of 40 pounds throughout the tournament. In 2018, Snyder won his third straight individual NCAA title as a heavyweight, this time being out-weighed by nearly 60 pounds "in one of the biggest size differences in an NCAA championship match in history", and became the first three-time NCAA heavyweight champion in nearly 30 years.

Along the way he became the youngest American, and only the eleventh ever, to win the Ivan Yarygin Memorial Grand Prix, which is widely considered to be the toughest open wrestling tournament in the world. Snyder dominated it with three technical-falls and then a pin in the finals. The following year Snyder would become the first American man not only to win back-to-back Yarygin titles, but the only one to win the prestigious tournament more than once at all, earning him Best Foreign Wrestler honors from his Russian hosts.

In 2017, Snyder defeated Abdulrashid Sadulaev at the 2017 World Championships, marking Sadulaev's first loss in his last 75 matches and the second one in his whole career. This come-from-behind victory earned Team USA its first World Championship in over 20 years and Snyder his third consecutive individual World or Olympic championship, and led to Snyder being ranked as the best pound for pound freestyle wrestler on the planet by Flowrestling in September 2017, a title he would retain in their June 2018 rankings. Snyder's accomplishments led him to being named the winner of the 2017 AAU Sullivan Award, presented annually to top amateur athlete in the United States. He ended his collegiate career as the first wrestler to win the NCAA, World, and Olympic championships as a student athlete.

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