Lloyd Keaser
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| Born | February 9, 1950 (age 74) Pumphrey, Maryland, U.S. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Lloyd Weldon "Butch" Keaser (born February 9, 1950) is an American former wrestler who competed in the 1976 Summer Olympics, for the United States.
Keaser was born in Pumphrey, Maryland. He wrestled for the Naval Academy and was a two-time All American. He was an alternate on the 1972 Olympic team to Dan Gable. In 1973 he won a gold medal at the world championships in freestyle wrestling and became the first African-American to achieve this honor. In 1976 he won the silver medal at the Montreal Olympics. Keaser is now the wrestling coach at Wilde Lake High School in Columbia, Maryland.
Bibliography
- Moffat, James V. 2007. Wrestlers At The Trials. Exit Zero Publishing. ISBN 978-0-9799051-0-0
- Hammond, Jairus K. & Little, Lisa. 2008. The African American Wrestling Experience. National Wrestling Hall of Fame and Museum
- Moore, Roger. 2009. Glory Beyond the Sport: Wrestling and the Military. National Wrestling Hall of Fame and Museum
External links
- Lloyd Keaser at Olympics.com
- Butch Keaser at Olympics at Sports-Reference.com (archived)
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Categories:
- 1950 births
- Living people
- Wrestlers at the 1976 Summer Olympics
- American male sport wrestlers
- Olympic silver medalists for the United States in wrestling
- Olympic wrestlers of the United States
- People from Anne Arundel County, Maryland
- People from Columbia, Maryland
- World Wrestling Championships medalists
- Medalists at the 1976 Summer Olympics
- Pan American Games gold medalists for the United States
- Pan American Games medalists in wrestling
- Wrestlers at the 1975 Pan American Games
- American Olympic medalist stubs