Dan Gable

Dan Gable ( born October 25, 1948 in Waterloo, Iowa) was an American wrestler

Career

Dan Gable attended the Waterloo West High School and began with the rings. Between 1963 and 1966, he remained undefeated in high school wrestling. After his high school days, he attended Iowa State University and wrestled there on extremely successful. In his high school and college years, he won 400 fights and lost only two. His career culminated in Olympic gold medal in Munich in 1972, he won so superior that it's " athleticism " in the Olympic special number called in the German magazine. " Alone for the struggles that denied the Americans Dan Gable, it was worth it, in the Ringer Judo Hall to come. He showed perfect freestyle battle, stylistically hard to beat. "

After ending his playing career, he was coach of the team wrestler at Iowa State University. Again, he was also extremely successful. He formed at his university ten Olympian, who won four gold, one silver and three bronze medals. 1980, 1984 and 2000, he was head coach of the U.S. Freestyle Team at the respective Olympic Games.

International success

(all competitions in free style, OS = Olympic Games, WM = World Championship, NCAA = amerik. university Wrestling Federation, AAU = Characters. Athletics Union, Lightweight, then to 68 kg body weight)

National success

Swell

• Database of the Institute for Applied Training Science at the University of Leipzig,
• Documentation of International Wrestling Championships FILA, 1976
• Journal Athletics