Shelby Wilson

Shelby Autrie Wilson (* July 14, 1937 in Ponca City, Oklahoma ) is a former American professional wrestler.

Career

Shelby Wilson began as a high school wrestler in his hometown with the rings. He was going very successfully. These successes sat down at Oklahoma State University, which he then visited to continue. He won two NCAA (American University Sports Association ) "All American Championships " in freestyle wrestler ( featherweight ). At the NCAA Championships, he won twice the State of Oklahoma in second place. In 1960 he succeeded to prevail surprisingly in the U.S. Olympic excretion of the AAU (American Athlete Union) in lightweight, whereupon he was sent to the Olympic Games in Rome. In Rome, he wrestled an outstanding tournament at lightweight. He reached five sovereign point victories and also beat the multiple Soviet champion Wladimir Sinyavsky safe. He thus became Olympic champion, without having previously denied ever having an international Ringer tournament. Wilson, Terrence McCann and Douglas Blubaugh were in Rome the three American U.S. boys who were as in the rest of the world completely unknown Ringer athletes Olympic gold medalist and European and Asian freestyle elite dominated. Shelby Wilson has as Terry McCann and Douglas Blubaugh neither participated before, nor after his Olympic victory in a World Cup.

After his Olympic victory, he ended his career as an active wrestler and worked at several universities as a wrestler coach before he at a Christian youth organization, the Stronghold Youth Foundation, took a job and as a coach at Owen Valley High School in Spencer with six-to twelve-year 1973 young people working.

International success

(OS = Olympic Games, F = freestyle, Le = Lightweight, then to 67 kg body weight)