Ben Provisor (born June 26, 1990 in

Stevens Point, Wisconsin Stevens Point is the county seat of Portage County, Wisconsin, United States. The city was incorporated in 1858. Its 2020 population of 25,666 makes it the largest city in the county. Stevens Point forms the core of the United States Census Bur ...

) is an American wrestler. He won the 2012 U.S. Olympic Trials at 74 kg GR, and competed at the

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. He also competed at the

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Personal life

He is the son of musician

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, former keyboard player for the rock band

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. He is married to wrestler

Leigh Jaynes Cpt, Leigh Evelyn Jaynes (born December 18, 1980) is an American freestyle wrestler and beach wrestler. Education Jaynes earned a BS in Exercise Science and in MA in Management from Missouri Valley College. The summer of her junior y ...

. 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 The 2012 Summer Olympics (officially the Games of the XXX Olympiad and also known as London 2012) was an international multi-sport event held from 27 July to 12 August 2012 in London, England, United Kingdom. The first event, the ...

Provisor was defeated by

Zurab Datunashvili Zurabi Datunashvili ( ka, ზურაბ დათუნაშვილი, sr, / ; born 18 June 1991) is a Georgian-born Serbian former Greco-Roman wrestler who competed in the men's middleweight category. Career He won a silver medal in ...

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(0-1, 0-6). Provisor was coached by Olympic silver-medalist and Greco-Roman world champion

Dennis Hall Dennis William Hall (born February 5, 1971) is a Greco-Roman wrestler from Neosho, Wisconsin, United States. Hall was a 10-time US National Champion, a World Champion, and 3-time USA Olympian. He won a silver medal at the 1996 Atlanta Olympi ...

. 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, Provisor signed to wrestle for the NAIA powerhouse

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* 1990 births Living people American male sport wrestlers Wrestlers at the 2012 Summer Olympics Wrestlers at the 2016 Summer Olympics Olympic wrestlers of the United States Pan American Games medalists in wrestling Pan American Games silver medalists for the United States Wrestlers at the 2011 Pan American Games Medalists at the 2011 Pan American Games Pan American Wrestling Championships medalists 20th-century American people 21st-century American people {{US-wrestling-bio-stub