Dan Gable

Danny Mack "Dan" Gable (born October 25, 1948 in Waterloo , Iowa ) is a former American wrestler .

Career

Dan Gable attended Waterloo West High School and started wrestling there. Between 1963 and 1966, he was undefeated in high school wrestling. After high school, he attended Iowa State University and competed there with great success. During his high school and college years, he won 400 fights and lost only two. His career culminated in his Olympic victory in Munich in 1972 . He won so well that the German specialist magazine “Athletik” wrote in the special Olympic issue: “ Just for the fights that American Dan Gable fought, it was worth coming to the wrestling judo hall. He showed a perfect freestyle fight, stylistically hard to beat. "

After finishing his active career, he was coach of the wrestling team at Iowa State University. Here, too, he was extremely successful. At his university he formed ten Olympians who won four gold, one silver and three bronze medals. In 1980, 1984 and 2000 he was the head coach of the American freestyle team at the respective Olympic Games. He was inducted into the FILA International Wrestling Hall of Fame in August 2012 for his services to wrestling .

International success

(all competitions in free style, OS = Olympic Games, WM = World Championship, NCAA = American University Wrestling Association, AAU = American Athletics Union, lightweight, then up to 68 kg body weight)

year	space	competition	Weight class
1971	1.	Pan American Games in 1971 in Bogotá	Light	before José Ramon (Cuba) and Segundo Olmeda (Panama)
1971	2.	Grand Prix of Georgia in Tbilisi	Light	behind Vasili Kazakov, in front of Boyko, all of the USSR
1971	1.	World Cup in Sofia	Light	with victories over Ismail Juszeinow (Bulgaria), Kikuo Wada (Japan), Nikat Kabanli (Turkey), Eero Suvilehto (Finland), Josef Engel ( Czechoslovakia ) and a point victory over Wasili Kazakow , (USSR)
1972	1.	Grand Prix of Georgia in Tbilisi	Light
1972	gold	OS in Munich	Light	with shoulder wins over Ioannidis (Greece), Saliovski (Yugoslavia), Cieslak (Poland) and point wins over Ruslan Aschuraliew (USSR), Klaus Rost (Federal Republic of Germany) and Kikuo Wada (Japan)

National successes

year	space	competition	Weight class
1968	1.	NCAA champion chips	Light
1969	1.	NCAA champion chips	Light
1969	1.	AAU championships	Light
1970	2.	NCAA champion chips	Light	behind Larry Owings
1970	1.	AAU championships	Light	before Gallard et al. Domnick
1971	1.	AAU champion chips	Light
1971	1.	World Cup elimination	Light
1972	1.	Olympic elimination	Light

swell

• Database of the Institute for Applied Training Sciences at the University of Leipzig,
• Documentation of FILA's International Wrestling Championships, 1976,
• Athletics magazine

Individual evidence

1. ↑ USA's Dan Gable among seven to be inducted to FILA Hall of Fame in London, England, August 3 , accessed April 16, 2017

Web links

• Profile of Dan Gable at the Institute for Applied Exercise Science
• Dan Gable in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )