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Sports Spectrum Podcast

Kyle Snyder, Olympic Gold Medal Winning Wrestler

Sports Spectrum Podcast

Sports Spectrum

Sports

4.9685 Ratings

🗓️ 5 June 2019

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Episode 310

Kyle Snyder is a 2016 Olympic Gold Medal winning wrestler. He is the youngest Olympic gold medalist and youngest World Champion in American wrestling history. 

He was a 3-time NCAA National Champion at Ohio State with a career record of 75-5 and ended his college career as the first and only wrestler to win the NCAA, World and Olympic championships as a collegiate athlete.

In May 2018, President Donald Trump appointed Snyder to be a member of his Council on Sports, Fitness and Nutrition.

On this episode of the podcast, we talk to Kyle about being an Olympic Gold Medal winner, striving for another Olympic Gold Medal at Tokyo in 2020, how coaching mentors helped open up his eyes to who Jesus was, living out that life of faith as a wrestler, and why he hopes to wrestle until his late 30's. 

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0:00.0

Welcome to Sports Spectrum, the Sports and Faith podcast that brings Jesus back into the conversation.

0:17.5

Here's your host, Jason Romano.

0:19.9

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0:48.3

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0:57.6

Today in the podcast, we welcome Olympic gold medal winning wrestler Kyle Snyder to the show.

1:04.4

Kyle might be the best wrestler in the world.

1:09.0

He's the youngest wrestler ever to win the world championship, the NCAA championship,

1:14.1

and an Olympic gold medal in the same year, a triple crown, really, of American wrestling

1:19.9

that hasn't been accomplished in a generation.

1:22.4

And he completed that sweep at the 2016 Rio Olympic Games.

1:27.7

He ended his college career as the first and only wrestler to win the NCAA World

1:33.1

and Olympic Championships as a collegian athlete.

1:36.5

He's a three-time NCAA national champion and he's the youngest Olympic gold medalist

1:41.7

and the youngest world champion in American wrestling history.

1:47.3

He's dominant.

1:48.8

Let's just put it that way.

1:49.9

In high school, he was 179 and zero as a wrestler.

1:55.4

In college, he was 75 and 5, and 4 of those 5 losses occurred in his freshman year. So you can do the math. He lost

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