Bruce baumgartner wife
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November 02, 1960 - Present
Although he had never won a high school state wrestling championship title, Bruce Baumgartner went on to become one of the most highly decorated and dominating wrestlers of the world.
He started his quest for world dominance after completing his collegiate wrestling career at Indiana State University where he was a three-time All-American and a 1982 NCAA champion.
It was in 1982 also that he became a world team member for the first time, winning a bronze medal for the United States at the 1983 World Championship in Kiev, Russia.
But it was at the 1984 Los Angeles Olympic Games that the world began to take notice as he became the Olympic Champion and America's first gold medalist in 60 years of super heavyweight wrestling.
Four years after his silver medal performance at the Seoul Olympics, his gold medal at the Barcelona Olympics put him into the record book as the first American wrestler to ever medal in three consecutive Olympic competitions.
As he approached the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta, he shared the record mark of 12 world medals with the l
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Bruce Baumgartner
Personal
Son of Lois and Robert Baumgartner...Father was a diesel mechanic...Was too large to play peewee football and didn’t find Little League baseballinteresting, so turned to wrestling...Competed in high school Wrestling but didn’t win the state title in New Jersey and therefore did not get recruited by top collegiate Wrestling programs...Won 86 of 87 matches during his last two years at Indiana State University...Received his master’s degree in Industrial Arts Education from Oklahoma State University...Coached Wrestling at Edinboro University of Pennsylvania before becoming the school’s athletic director...Father to two sons, Bryan and Zachary.Olympic Experience
- 4-time Olympian; 4-time Olympic medalist (2 gold, 1 silver, 1 bronze)
- Olympic Games Atlanta 1996, bronze (120kg - Men)
- Olympic Games Barcelona 1992, gold (120kg - Men)
- Olympic Games Seoul 1988, silver (120kg - Men)
- Olympic Games Los Angeles 1984, gold (120kg - Men)
World Championships Experience
- Most recent: 1995 – gold (120kg - Men)
- Years of participation: 120kg - Men 1983, 1985, 19
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Baumgartner, Bruce
1960-
American wrestler
Amateur freestyle wrestler Bruce Baumgartner won the U.S. national championship seventeen times in as many years. An eight-time Midlands Champion, he medalled at four Olympic Games, from 1984-96, earning gold medals in two. After winning the World Cup Championship in 1997 for the eighth time, he retired from competition. In 2002 Baumgartner was named to the National Wrestling Hall of Fame.
Bruce Robert Baumgartner was born on November 2, 1960, the second son of Robert Sr., a diesel mechanic, and Lois Baumgartner of Haledon, New Jersey. A late bloomer by some standards, Baumgartner was a humdrum athlete and an unimpressive student at Haledon's Manchester Regional High School. As a child he was not much interested in watching television and was too large to play peewee football. Disinterested in Little League, he finally turned to wrestling for lack of other options. At 190 pounds in the ninth grade, his exceptional size worked to his advantage on the mats, and by senior year he had progressed to third place in the statewide fr
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