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2021 United States World Team Trials (wrestling)
The 2021 United States World Team Trials for wrestling were held at the Pinnacle Bank Arena of Lincoln, Nebraska, from September 11 to 12, 2021. This event determined the representative of the United States of America for the 2021 World Championships at each weight class and style. Weight classes contested Due to the delay of the 2020 Summer Olympics that ended up taking place in August 2021, with the US Olympic Team Trials for wrestling taking place in April 2021, the 2021 US World Team Trials took place months later than the yearly event usually does, and the same applies to the 2021 World Championships, which will start on October 2. USA Wrestling announced on the 2021 World Team Selection Procedures that "The 2020 Tokyo Olympic Medalist, if competing at the same weight class, will receive the automatic selection to the 2021 World Team at that same weight." Every American 2020 Olympic medalist accepted their berth with the exception of men's freestyle 125 kg gold medalist Ga ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lincoln, Nebraska
Lincoln is the capital city of the U.S. state of Nebraska and the county seat of Lancaster County. The city covers with a population of 292,657 in 2021. It is the second-most populous city in Nebraska and the 73rd-largest in the United States. The city is the economic and cultural anchor of a substantially larger metropolitan area in the southeastern part of the state called the Lincoln Metropolitan and Lincoln- Beatrice Combined Statistical Areas. The statistical area is home to 361,921 people, making it the 104th-largest combined statistical area in the United States. The city was founded in 1856 as the village of Lancaster on the wild salt marshes and arroyos of what was to become Lancaster County. Renamed after President Abraham Lincoln, it became Nebraska's state capital in 1869. The Bertram G. Goodhue–designed state capitol building was completed in 1932, and is the second tallest capitol in the United States. As the city is the seat of government for the state ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yianni Diakomihalis
Yianni Diakomihalis (born John Michael Diakomihalis on April 11, 1999) is an American freestyle and folkstyle wrestler who competes at 65 kilograms and 149 pounds. In freestyle, he is the 2022 world silver medalist, a two-time US World Team member (2021 and 2022), the 2020 Pan American champion, the 2019 US Open national champion, and a two-time age-group world champion. As a collegiate wrestler, Diakomihalis was a four-time NCAA Division I champion and four-time EIWA champion out of Cornell University. Folkstyle career High school Diakomihalis attended Hilton High School in Hilton, New York, along with his brother Greg, who would go on to become a five-time NYSPHSAA champion. He made the varsity team in the seventh grade and won the Division I state championship at 99 pounds as an eighth grader, defeating future Cornell teammate Vito Arujau in the finals. As a freshman, he also won the state title now at 113 pounds and that was repeated at 120 pounds as a sophomor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nick Suriano
Nicholas Raymond Suriano (born April 14, 1997) is an American freestyle and folkstyle wrestler who competes at 57 kilograms. In freestyle, he claimed the 2021 Henri Deglane Grand Prix gold medal and the 2021 Matteo Pellicone Ranking Series silver medal. As a folkstyle wrestler, Suriano was the 2022 NCAA Division I National and Big Ten Conference champion at 125 pounds for the Michigan Wolverines, repeating what he had accomplished in 2019 at 133 pounds, and at Rutgers University, where he was a NCAA finalist and the Big Ten Conference champion in 2018. Wrestling career High school Suriano was born and raised in the state of New Jersey, where he played football as a defensive back in his youth and was introduced to wrestling by his father at age seven. At age 12, he quit the sport of football to focus solely on wrestling. Suriano then attended Bergen Catholic High School and became one of the most accomplished wrestlers in the history of his home state; accumulating eigh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
G'Angelo Hancock
G'Angelo Hancock (born July 27, 1997) is an American Greco-Roman wrestler. He won one of the bronze medals in the 97 kg event at the 2021 World Wrestling Championships held in Oslo, Norway. At the 2020 Pan American Wrestling Championships held in Ottawa, Canada, he won the gold medal in the 97 kg event. He is also a silver medalist at the 2019 Pan American Games held in Lima, Peru. He represented the United States at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan. Hancock signed with the WWE in August 2022 as a performer under the ring name Tavion Heights. He currently wrestles on the NXT brand. Career In 2016, Hancock competed at the United States Olympic Team Trials hoping to represent the United States at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He finished in third place in the 98 kg event. Hancock won one of the bronze medals in the 98 kg event at the 2017 Pan American Wrestling Championships held in Lauro de Freitas, Brazil. He also competed in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ben Provisor
Ben Provisor (born June 26, 1990 in Stevens Point, Wisconsin) is an American wrestler. He won the 2012 U.S. Olympic Trials at 74 kg GR, and competed at the 2012 Olympics. He also competed at the 2016 Olympics. Personal life He is the son of musician Dennis Provisor, former keyboard player for the rock band The Grass Roots. He is married to wrestler Leigh Jaynes. He has one child. He attended SPASH high school in Stevens Point WI. Wrestling career Provisor is a three-time U.S. Open champion (2011, 2013, and 2018). He defeated Aaron Sieracki 2 to 1 at the finals of the 2012 U.S. Olympic Trials. In the 1/8 finals at the 2012 Summer Olympics Provisor was defeated by Zurab Datunashvili of Georgia (0-1, 0-6). Provisor was coached by Olympic silver-medalist and Greco-Roman world champion Dennis Hall. At the 2016 Olympics, he competed in the men's light-heavyweight (85 kg) division in Greco-Roman wrestling. He lost to Rustam Assakalov in the second round. In 2021, P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ildar Hafizov
Ildar Hafizov (russian: Ильдар Хафизов; tt-Cyrl, Илдар Хәфиз; born 30 January 1988) is an Uzbek-American Greco-Roman wrestler of Tatar heritage, who competes in the featherweight category. Before his change of domicile to the United States in 2014, Hafizov represented his native Uzbekistan at the 2008 Summer Olympics, and has picked up the silver medal in his respective division at the 2011 Asian Wrestling Championships, coincidentally in his home city Tashkent, losing out to Kyrgyzstan's Arsen Eraliev. Hafizov competed for the Uzbek wrestling squad in the men's 55 kg class at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. He lost the first prelims match to Russia's Nazyr Mankiev, who was able to score three points each in two straight periods, leaving Hafizov with a single point. Because his opponent advanced further into the final match, Hafizov offered another shot for the bronze medal by entering the repechage bouts. He was defeated by Serbia's Kristijan Fris ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Max Nowry
Max Emiliano Nowry (born March 16, 1990) is an American Greco-Roman wrestler. He is a three-time gold medalist at the Pan American Wrestling Championships. He has also competed in freestyle wrestling on a few occasions. Career In 2013, Nowry represented the United States at the Summer Universiade where he finished in 5th place in the Greco-Roman 55kg event. In 2018, Nowry won the silver medal in the Greco-Roman 55kg event at the Pan American Wrestling Championships held in Lima, Peru. Nowry won the gold medal in the Greco-Roman 55kg event at the 2019 Pan American Wrestling Championships held in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Later that year he won one of the bronze medals in the freestyle 57kg event at the 2019 Military World Games held in Wuhan, China. In 2019 he also competed in the Greco-Roman 55kg event at the 2019 World Wrestling Championships held in Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan without winning a medal. He won his first match against Fabian Schmitt but he was eliminated fro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nick Gwiazdowski
Nickolos Edward Gwiazdowski (born December 30, 1992) is an American freestyle wrestler and graduated folkstyle wrestler. A two-time NCAA Division I National Champion for the North Carolina State Wolfpack, Gwiazdowski has won two bronze medals at the World Championships and has captured a Pan American Games title and two Pan American Championships for Team USA. High school career He was a 2 time NYSPHSAA (New York) Division II state champion for Duanesburg High School, where he went 50-0 as a senior, and managed to not have a single opponent go the entire match with him. He received the Dave Schultz and Wade Schalles Awards at the end of the season. College career Nick earned All-American honors as a true freshman at Binghamton University in 2012 (8th at 285). He then transferred to North Carolina State University and redshirted the 2012-13 season to preserve his NCAA eligibility. While there he was then a three-time All-American for the Wolfpack, twice a national champ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kollin Moore
Kollin Raymond Moore (born May 2, 1997) is an American freestyler wrestler and graduated folkstyle wrestler who competes at 97 kilograms. In freestyle, he won the '21 Matteo Pellicone Ranking Series title, defeating Iran's Alireza Karimi in the final, is the reigning US National Champion and was also the '18 U23 World Championship and '19 US National Championship runner-up. As a folkstyle wrestler, he was a four-time NCAA Division I All-American, three-time Big Ten Conference champion and the '20 Dan Hodge Trophy runner-up for the Ohio State Buckeyes. Folkstyle career High school Moore attended Norwayne High School in Creston, Ohio, where he was a multiple–sport-athlete, competing in soccer, track, football and wrestling. He went 51–0 as a senior, not giving up an offensive point throughout the whole season and becoming the first OHSAA state champion of the school with a 23–8 technical fall in the finals, before graduating in 2015. A two–time Garfield Heigh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
J'den Cox
J'den Michael Tbory Cox ( /ˈdʒeɪdən/ ''JAY-dən'', born March 3, 1995) is an American freestyle wrestler and graduated folkstyle wrestler who competes at 92 kilograms. In freestyle, Cox is a two-time World Champion (bronze medalist in 2021) at 92 kilos, and while competing at 86 kilos, he claimed a bronze medal from the 2016 Summer Olympics and a 2017 World Championship bronze medal. During college, Cox wrestled for the Missouri Tigers, and was a three-time NCAA Division I national champion and four-time Mid-American Conference champion, becoming one of the most accomplished Tigers in the program's history. Early life Cox was born and raised in Columbia, Missouri and began wrestling at the age of four. The first youth state tournament Cox entered is the last state tournament at any level he did not win. Cox began training with Mike Eierman (Jaydin Eierman's father) in 2006 and continued training with Eierman until his move to the United States Olympic Training Center ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alex Dieringer
Alex David Dieringer (born June 6, 1993) is an American freestyle wrestler and graduated folkstyle wrestler. In freestyle, he has had success in both the international and national circuit, claiming medals from tournaments such as the Bill Farrell Memorial, the Ivan Yarygin Grand Prix, the US Open, among others. As a folkstyle wrestler, Dieringer was a three-time NCAA Division I National Champion, 2016 Dan Hodge Trophy winner, four-time All-American and four-time Big 12 Conference champion out of the Oklahoma State University. Freestyle record ! colspan="7", Senior Freestyle Matches , - ! Res. ! Record ! Opponent ! Score ! Date ! Event ! Location , - , Win , 81–20 , align=left, Isaiah Martinez , style="font-size:88%", 4–1 , style="font-size:88%", March 16, 2022 , style="font-size:88%", Rudis+: Snyder vs. Cox , style="text-align:left;font-size:88%;", Detroit, Michigan , - ! style=background:white colspan=7 , , - , Loss , 80–20 , align=left, Gadzhi Nabie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jordan Burroughs
Jordan Ernest Burroughs (born July 8, 1988) is an American freestyle wrestler and former folkstyle wrestler who currently competes at 79 kilograms, and previously competed at 74 kilos. In freestyle, he was the 2012 Olympic gold medalist, is the reigning and a six-time world champion (nine-time medalist), three-time Pan American Games Gold medalist, four-time Pan American champion, and four-time US Open national champion, and has made the US World or Olympic Team on 11 occasions. In folkstyle, Burroughs was a two-time NCAA Division I champion for the Nebraska Cornhuskers and was awarded the Dan Hodge Trophy (equivalent to the Heisman Trophy) in 2012. After winning gold at the 2022 World Wrestling Championships, Burroughs set the American record with his seventh gold medal at the Olympic and World Championship level. Burroughs is widely known for his double-leg takedown and is considered one of the greatest freestyle wrestlers of all time. Early life Burroughs is from ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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