Harry Steel (wrestler)
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Born | (1899-04-18)April 18, 1899 East Sparta, Ohio, U.S. | ||||||||||||||
Died | October 8, 1971(1971-10-08) (aged 72) London, Ohio, U.S. | ||||||||||||||
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Harry Steel (April 18, 1899 – October 8, 1971) was an American wrestler and Olympic champion. He competed at the 1924 Olympic Games in Paris, where he won a gold medal in the freestyle heavyweight division.[1] Steel initially did not make the U.S. team at first, but the wrestler who was supposed to go ended up not being able to. Harry was called up to the team and went on to win the Olympic gold medal.[2]
Steel wrestled and played football at Ohio State University, where he lettered in both sports. In his senior year, he was the undefeated Western Conference (now the Big Ten) heavyweight wrestling champion. He was inducted into the Ohio State Varsity O Hall of Fame in 1980.
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- 1904 Bernhoff Hansen (USA)
- 1908 Con O'Kelly (GBR)
- 1920 Robert Roth (SUI)
- 1924 Harry Steel (USA)
- 1928 Johan Richthoff (SWE)
- 1932 Johan Richthoff (SWE)
- 1936 Kristjan Palusalu (EST)
- 1948 Gyula Bóbis (HUN)
- 1952 Arsen Mekokishvili (URS)
- 1956 Hamit Kaplan (TUR)
- 1960 Wilfried Dietrich (EUA)
- 1964 Aleksandr Ivanitsky (URS)
- 1968 Aleksandr Medved (URS)
- 1972 Ivan Yarygin (URS)
- 1976 Ivan Yarygin (URS)
- 1980 Ilya Mate (URS)
- 1984 Lou Banach (USA)
- 1988 Vasile Pușcașu (ROM)
- 1992 Leri Khabelov (EUN)
- 1996 Kurt Angle (USA)
- 2000 Sagid Murtazaliev (RUS)
- 2004 Khadzhimurat Gatsalov (RUS)
- 2008 Shirvani Muradov (RUS)
- 2012 Jake Varner (USA)
- 2016 Kyle Snyder (USA)
- 2020 Abdulrashid Sadulaev (RUS)
- 1904: +71.67 kg
- 1908: +73 kg
- 1920: +82.5 kg
- 1924–1960: +87 kg
- 1964–1968: +97 kg
- 1972–1996: 100 kg
- 2000: 97 kg
- 2004–2012: 96 kg
- 2016–present: 97 kg
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