Brandon Slay
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Full name | Brandon Douglas Slay | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | October 14, 1975 (1975-10-14) (age 48) Amarillo, Texas, U.S. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 5 ft 8 in (173 cm) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 76 kg (168 lb) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Brandon Douglas Slay (born October 14, 1975) is an America former freestyle wrestler. He won an Olympic gold medal for the United States in wrestling at the 2000 Summer Olympics. Slay also helped found Dallas Dynamite wrestling club in Dallas, Texas. Slay currently is the Assistant National Freestyle Coach and National Freestyle Resident Coach for USA wrestling, stationed at the Olympic Training Center (USOTC) in Colorado Springs.[1]
High school years
He graduated from Tascosa High School in Amarillo, Texas, where he was a three-time state champion in wrestling.
College years
Slay studied business at the University of Pennsylvania and received a degree from the Wharton School of Business. He wrestled all four years at Pennsylvania, where he was a two-time national runner-up and All-American in the NCAA tournament at 167 pounds. He is a member of the Alpha Tau Omega fraternity.
2000 Olympic Games in Sydney
At the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney, Australia, Slay would beat defending Olympic champion Buvaisar Saitiev of Russia in his pool to advance to the knockout round. From there, he would win two more matches, making the gold medal match, where he lost to Alexander Leipold of Germany. Afterwards, Leipold would test positive for the steroid nandrolone, and the gold medal was awarded to Slay.[2]
Personal life
Slay is a devout Christian and runs Greater Gold, which does speeches and camps about Christ and wrestling.
In 2016, Slay was inducted into the National Wrestling Hall of Fame as a Distinguished Member.[3]
References
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- 1904
Charles Ericksen (NOR)
- 1924
Hermann Gehri (SUI)
- 1928
Arvo Haavisto (FIN)
- 1932
Jack van Bebber (USA)
- 1936
Frank Lewis (USA)
- 1948
Yaşar Doğu (TUR)
- 1952
William Smith (USA)
- 1956
Mitsuo Ikeda (JPN)
- 1960
Douglas Blubaugh (USA)
- 1964
İsmail Ogan (TUR)
- 1968
Mahmut Atalay (TUR)
- 1972
Wayne Wells (USA)
- 1976
Jiichiro Date (JPN)
- 1980
Valentin Raychev (BUL)
- 1984
David Schultz (USA)
- 1988
Kenny Monday (USA)
- 1992
Park Jang-soon (KOR)
- 1996
Buvaisar Saitiev (RUS)
- 2000
Brandon Slay (USA)
- 2004
Buvaisar Saitiev (RUS)
- 2008
Buvaisar Saitiev (RUS)
- 2012
Jordan Burroughs (USA)
- 2016
Hassan Yazdani (IRI)
- 2020
Zaurbek Sidakov (ROC)
- 1904: 71.67 kg
- 1924–1936: 72 kg
- 1948–1960: 73 kg
- 1964–1968: 78 kg
- 1972–1996: 74 kg
- 2000: 76 kg
- 2004–present: 74 kg
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