Rick Sanders (wrestler)
Richard J. Sanders ( born January 20, 1945 † October 18, 1972 in Yugoslavia ) was an American wrestler.
Career
Rick Sanders got the rings, like almost all American wrestler in college. Also at the Portland University, where he studied afterwards, he put the rings continued very successfully. He won 1965-1967 seven different U.S. university championships of various associations. During this time he was one of the few wrestlers Dan Gable, could teach the future Olympic champion in 1972, a defeat. As a newcomer on the international mat he fought in 1966 for the first time at a World Cup and won the FILA equal a medal. Until 1972 he was a member of he best in the world.
Rick Sanders was an unconventional man, freethinkers, long haired, bearded. He had his own training and fighting style and was considered a technically excellent and willing to take risks wrestler. Rick Sanders died in a car accident in Yugoslavia killed, the circumstances are not known.
International success
(OS = Olympic Games, WM = World Championship, F = Freestyle, Fl = flyweight, bantamweight Ba = )
National success
Rick Sanders 1970 U.S. champion bantamweight freestyle.
- World Champion ( Wrestling )
- Olympian (United States)
- Ringer (United States)
- Born in 1945
- Died in 1972
- Man