Bruce Baumgartner

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Bruce Baumgartner
medal table

Wrestler

United StatesUnited States United States
Olympic Games
Freestyle
gold 1984 Los Angeles Heavy
gold 1992 Barcelona Super heavy
silver 1988 Seoul Super heavy
bronze 1996 Atlanta Super heavy
World Championships
Freestyle
gold 1986 Budapest Super heavy
gold 1993 Toronto Super heavy
gold 1995 Atlanta Super heavy
silver 1989 Martigny Super heavy
silver 1990 Tokyo Super heavy
silver 1994 Istanbul Super heavy
bronze 1983 Kiev Heavy
bronze 1985 Budapest Super heavy
bronze 1987 Clermont-Ferrand Super heavy

Bruce Robert Baumgartner (born August 31, 1960 in Haledon , New Jersey ) is a retired American wrestler .

Career

Bruce Baumgartner, like most American wrestlers, began wrestling in high school. There he has not yet achieved any great success. It wasn't until after he moved to Indiana State University that these came about. In 1978 he became the American junior heavyweight champion and from 1980 he also won many victories in university wrestling. In 1982 he was sent to the World Championships for the first time at the age of 20. He still had to make do with 7th place, but from 1983 success followed success. He was twice Olympic champion , won two more Olympic medals and was also three times world champion, always against the toughest competition. In the United States, he was undefeated for 17 years. After he was inducted into the National Wrestling Hall of Fame in 2002, he was also one of the first to be inducted into the FILA International Wrestling Hall of Fame in September 2003 .

After the end of his wrestling career, Bruce Baumgartner continued to wrestle. He is Director of Athletics for the Edinboro University of Pennsylvania and Director of the Edinboro Wrestling Camps and lives in Edinboro , Pennsylvania with his wife and three sons .

Competition balance (overview)

year competition place space Style Weight class
1981 Universiade Bucharest 1 Freestyle Super heavyweight
1982 World cup Toledo 2 Freestyle Super heavyweight
1982 World championships Edmonton 1 Freestyle Super heavyweight
1983 Pan American Games Caracas 2 Freestyle Super heavyweight
1983 World championships Kiev 3 Freestyle Super heavyweight
1984 World cup Toledo 1 Freestyle Super heavyweight
1984 Olympic Summer Games los Angeles 1 Freestyle Super heavyweight
1985 International tournament Tokyo 1 Freestyle Super heavyweight
1985 World championships Budapest 3 Freestyle Super heavyweight
1986 World cup Toledo 1 Freestyle Super heavyweight
1986 World championships Budapest 1 Freestyle Super heavyweight
1987 Pan American Championships 1 Freestyle Super heavyweight
1987 Pan American Games Indianapolis 1 Freestyle Super heavyweight
1987 World championships Clermond-Ferrand 3 Freestyle Super heavyweight
1988 World cup Toledo 2 Freestyle Super heavyweight
1988 Pan American Championships 1 Freestyle Super heavyweight
1988 Olympic Summer Games Seoul 2 Freestyle Super heavyweight
1989 World cup Toledo 1 Freestyle Super heavyweight
1989 Pan American Championships Colorado Springs 1 Freestyle Super heavyweight
1989 World championships Martigny 2 Freestyle Super heavyweight
1990 World cup Toledo 1 Freestyle Super heavyweight
1990 World championships Tokyo 2 Freestyle Super heavyweight
1990 International tournament Pittsburgh 1 Freestyle Super heavyweight
1991 Pan American Championships 1 Freestyle Super heavyweight
1991 World cup Toledo 1 Freestyle Super heavyweight
1991 Pan American Games Havana 1 Freestyle Super heavyweight
1991 World championships Varna 7th Freestyle Super heavyweight
1992 Olympic Summer Games Barcelona 1 Freestyle Super heavyweight
1993 World cup Chattanooga 2 Freestyle Super heavyweight
1993 World championships Toronto 1 Freestyle Super heavyweight
1994 World cup Edmonton 1 Freestyle Super heavyweight
1994 World championships Istanbul 2 Freestyle Super heavyweight
1995 Pan American Games Mar del Plata 1 Freestyle Super heavyweight
1995 World cup Chattanooga 2 Freestyle Super heavyweight
1995 World championships Atlanta 1 Freestyle Super heavyweight
1996 Olympic Summer Games Atlanta 3 Freestyle Super heavyweight
1997 World cup Stillwater 1 Freestyle Super heavyweight

In addition, Baumgartner was able to achieve the following titles at national level:

  • 1982 MCAA Division I Champion,
  • 3-time NCAA Division All-American Champion,
  • 15-time USA heavyweight champion from 1981 to 1996, with the exception of 1982

(NCAA = American University Sports Association)

International success

(OS = Olympic Games, WM = World Championship, S = Heavyweight, F = Freestyle)

  • 1981, 1st place , University World Championships, S, F;
  • 1982, 2nd place , University World Championships, S, F;
  • 1982, 7th place , World Championship in Edmonton , S, F, winner: Salman Chassimikow , USSR ahead of Adam Sandurski, Poland and Andreas Schröder , GDR;
  • 1983, 2nd place , Panamerican Games, S, F, behind Candido Mesa, Cuba and ahead of Robert Molle , Canada ;
  • 1983, 3rd place , World Championships in Kiev , S, F, behind Salman Chassimikow, USSR and Adam Sandurski, Poland ;
  • 1984, gold medal , OS in Los Angeles , S, F, with victories over Andrei, Romania , Taskin, Turkey and Molle, Canada ;
  • 1985, 3rd place , World Championships in Budapest , S, F, behind Dawit Gobedschischwili , USSR and Josef Balla, Hungary and in front of Adam Sandurski and Andreas Schröder , GDR ;
  • 1986, 1st place , World Championships in Budapest, S, F, ahead of Dawit Gobedschischwili and Andreas Schröder;
  • 1987, 1st place , Panamerican Games, S, F, in front of Domingo Mesa, Cuba and Dan Payne, Canada;
  • 1987, 3rd place , World Championships in Clermont-Ferrand , F, SS, behind Aslan Chadarzew , USSR and Andreas Schröder , GDR and in front of Miroslav Luberda, CSSR, Hayri Sezgin, Turkey and Domingo Mesa;
  • 1988, silver medal , OS in Seoul , S, F, behind Dawit Gobedschischwili and in front of Andreas Schröder and László Klauz , Hungary ;
  • 1989, 2nd place , World Championships in Martigny / Switzerland , S, F, behind Ali Reza Soleimani, Iran and in front of Aslan Chadarzew, USSR and Andreas Schröder;
  • 1990, 2nd place , World Championships in Tokyo , S, F, behind Dawit Gobedschishwili and in front of Sezgin Ayik, Turkey, Stech, CSSR and Andreas Schröder;
  • 1991, 1st place , Panamerican Games, S, F, ahead of Andrew Borodow, Canada and Domingo Mesa;
  • 1991, 7th place , World Cup in Varna , behind Andreas Schröder, Gennadi Schilzow, GUS , Jeff Thune, Canada, Ali Reza Soleimani, Mahmut Demir, Turkey and Zsolt Gombos, Hungary;
  • 1992, gold medal , OS in Barcelona , S, F, in front of Jeff Thune, Dawit Gobedschischwili, Mahmut Demir, Andreas Schröder and Ali Reza Soleimani;
  • 1993, 1st place , World Championships in Toronto , S, F, ahead of Mirabi Valiyev, Ukraine , Andrei Schumilin , Russia , Sasa Turmanidze, Georgia and Zsolt Gombos;
  • 1994, 2nd place , World Championships in Istanbul , S, F, behind Mahmut Demir and in front of Alexej Medvedev, Belarus, Mirabi Walijew and Zsolt Gombos;
  • 1995, 1st place , Panamerican Games, S, F, ahead of Alexis Rodriguez Valera, Cuba and Wayne Weathers, Canada;
  • 1995, 1st place , World Championships in Atlanta , S, F, ahead of Sven Thiele , Germany , Leri Chabelowi , Russia, Sasa Turmanidse and Mahmut Demir;
  • 1996, bronze medal , OS in Atlanta , S, F, behind Mahmut Demir and Alexej Medwedew and in front of Andrei Schumilin, Alexander Kowalewski, Kazakhstan and Sven Thiele

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Baumgartner and Smith among charter FILA 2003 Hall of Fame class ( Memento of the original from July 3, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed on July 11, 2010  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.wrestlinghalloffame.org

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personal data
SURNAME Baumgartner, Bruce
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Baumgartner, Bruce Robert (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American wrestler
DATE OF BIRTH August 31, 1960
PLACE OF BIRTH Haledon , New Jersey