Shelby Wilson
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Full name | Shelby Autrie Wilson | ||||||||||||||
Born | July 14, 1937 Ponca City, Oklahoma, U.S. | (age 87)||||||||||||||
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Shelby Autrie Wilson (born July 14, 1937) is an American wrestler and Olympic champion.[1] A native of Ponca City, Oklahoma,[2] he was a two-time Oklahoma state tournament runner-up while in high school, and was a two-time NCAA runner-up in college at Oklahoma A&M (now Oklahoma State). At the 1960 U.S. Olympic Trials, he finished in third place. During the Olympic Training Camp he successfully challenged the trials' second and first-place finishers to gain the starting position. He won Olympic Gold in Rome in the freestyle lightweight division. His Olympic gold medal was the first major tournament that Wilson had won. He later became a high school wrestling coach at Owen Valley Community High School.[3]
In 1982, Wilson was inducted into the National Wrestling Hall of Fame as a Distinguished Member.[4]
References
- ^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Shelby Wilson". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on April 18, 2020. Retrieved September 13, 2015.
- ^ "Beyond the Scoreboard", The Herald-Times, 2010-03-21. Accessed 2011-04-22.
- ^ "1960 Summer Olympics – Rome, Italy – Wrestling" – databaseOlympics.com (Retrieved on April 29, 2008)
- ^ Shelby Wilson. National Wrestling Hall of Fame. Retrieved September 18, 2022.
- 1937 births
- Living people
- Wrestlers at the 1960 Summer Olympics
- American male sport wrestlers
- Olympic gold medalists for the United States in wrestling
- Sportspeople from Oklahoma
- People from Ponca City, Oklahoma
- Medalists at the 1960 Summer Olympics
- Ponca City High School alumni
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- American Olympic medalist stubs